Citalopram Buddies

[Twigy]

Hope you girls find this. Chubby I am so sorry. I was in tears reading your thread and my heart goes out to you. I know it will be hard I would not be able to cope. Big Twigy Hugs.

the thing is i dont really want to distress him by sending him to a stranger IYKWIM, it has taken him a long time to adjust to his childminder, i would just feel even more stressed if i left him with someone new.
I definately know how you feel about fretting about not getting a break.....It is just nice to know that you are going to get a little bit of time, it kind of sets a routine off, then when something throws a spanner in it its like bomb explodes in your head and everything goes out of the window...including your sanity x

that is so well said, Fawke.

how has everyone been doing today?????

I have had a really enjotable day today

we all went out for a meal as it is my dads birthday today....kind of took my mind off everything x just feeling soooper tired off the increase of ADs but apart from that a very steady day for me x

glad to hear you had a good day, Fawke. Mind was nice too. I had a friend round and the kiddies played in the garden and we planted sunflower seeds.
Feel good today, but I still have horrid thoughts when I am alone.
And Twigy, I'm worried about you - are you ok?

yeah i know what you mean, it's a false sense of being fine because the underlying issues are still there when everyone has left. they resurface and give you a bump back into your daily reality of coping with the depression......but a false sense of happiness is better than none IMO x
TWIGY...hope you are feeling better since monday x
SPRINGSUNSHINE...any luck at resolving work matters????

Hi girls im fine! I havent had a minute to myself. Day off today so mooching about this morning then off to see my chum this aft. DH still being a pain but hey he is a man!!!!! Hope you are all ok (BIG HUGS)

Only just found the new thread (was wondering why everyone had stopped posting on the old one - how thick am I????)

Been to the docs today and he wants me to go back on the ad's and has refferred me for councilling. I've been having panic attacks since my friends son died last week and I've hardly stopped crying. It was the funeral on Tuesday and I just can't get that tiny coffin out of my head. The service was lovely (yet horrific). Two white horses with blue plumes pulled a carriage containing the little white casket. The service was attended by hundreds of mourners and both his parents read out heartbreaking tributes to their son. The music they had chosen was very fitting and they ended the service with the tune from the nightgarden as this was his favourite song.
I have to say we all raised a smile when the vicar read his favourite book complete with animal noises and through the tears we all managed to join in with the quack, quacks.

Aw Chubby, it sounds like a very lovely service, but very, very moving.

How would you feel about going back on the tablets? Maybe this isn't the right time for you to be coming off them.

Hi all

Glad everyone is coping OK; chubby glad the service went well, sounds heartbreaking but lovely.

This week has been difficult and Friday was especially bad. Have decided to go back on the tablets - had been off for a week or so (lost track ) but with the problems at work I think I need to get stabilised. I am disappointed, but hopefully will feel better soon.

Work tricky - no real resolution re bully, but have hardly seen her as was in a meeting all day Tuesday, and she was out most of Wed. I do feel very isolated which is not helping, but will see how I get on.

Fawke hope you get the counselling sorted - ridiculous that you cannot get any but work want to give me some I don't want

I have only just found this area on MumsNet. I have a question for you, how were you sure that you needed to increase the dose of ad? I have been on Citalopram for 2 months and although I was feeling more like myself up until about a month ago, now I am starting to have more bad days again. However, I am not in tears all the time nor do I feel like I am not coping.

I have 2 children, Abigail 3.5 years and Alex 20 months. Having Alex was what triggered the PND but it took me 18 months to admit to the world that I wasn't coping. The only way is up, as the song goes.

Hi Vicky, discuss it with your Doc. I just knew, after a couple of months, that I was still too down and that the dose needed to go up, although I did feel better than when I first started them.

It took me about 14 months to admit I had PND after my DS was born but we are ok now, although I feel that I really missed out when he was tiny. Still, you are right, the only way is up!

Twigy, if you're there, I hope you're ok. Give me a shout if you need anything x

New here.

I'm Ali, 32, mum of 3 - 2 girls aged 7 and 4 and a boy aged 5 months.

Have had PND with all three but it doesn't put me off having more.

Just wondered having read this thread whether I should ask my Dr to up my dose? I've been taking 10mg for 4 months now and I'm not feeling much better, I'm better at hiding how I am feeling though

Ah yes I can do the hiding very well too, so much so that DH doesn't always believe me when I try and explain how I really feel.
Well welcome, faery

DH can usually guess how bad it is...I'm really low at the moment and haven't moved from the sofa all morning. The house is messing itself up around me.

DOn't worry about the house - it won't fall down just because it is a mess. When did you last go to the doctor?

Hi all,
Sorry I haven't been on for a couple of weeks. How are you all? hello to faery and vicky!
I feel for you chubby. Ive been in tears everyday since my grandad died the other week. I went to his funeral last week and it helped me, though I think Ive shocked myself at feeling like this as Ive never lost anyone this close to me before. I still think about him most days and I want to cry when I do. But it was a lovely service. Whats pissed me off a bit is if I say to people that it was my grandad that died they are all blase about it. as if to say "well he was old so thats ok" He was only 70. Just. Its like people don't care about the elderly. They should just go to their old folks home and bide their time.

70 isn't old at all - my mum is 69 this year

Exactly!

Saw the dr this morning - took my Beck Questionnaire with me which showed I hadn't really got any better since January. Dr has increased the citalopram to 30mg to see if that helps.

I'm having counselling and therapy sessions too.

Hugs everyone, Ali

hey can I join you guys ... I've been taking 10mg for the past week. side effects ok so far, just a strange feeling like i've drunk too much coffee, i'm yawning a lot and i've started grinding my teeth. very attractive!

I have to go back to my GP in a week ... is he likely to put the dose up?

Hiya Pringle, I doubt if he'll put thee dose up yet. They sound like normal side effects - stick with it.

Faery, what is the Beck questionnaire?

Thanks for the advice everyone. I am going to the Doctors again next Friday so will talk up upping the dose then. I had a bad day on Wednesday when I wanted to dissolve into tears but have been alright since then so fingers crossed for a good weekend.

can I /should i join you all? day 2 of being on this +trazodone and I feel AWFUL. Little to no sleep last night and I feel distinctly odd - nauseous, weepy, moody etc etc. When the hell do these pills kick in and how long do you need to know whether they#re not going to work for you? any ideas?

god, seem to have killed it! Had been hoping for inspiration from you guys, could really do with hearing some "it works really well for me" stories!