Docters put me on - CITALOPRAM

[thewiltedrose]

Anybody had experience with citalopram?
Ive been pescribed it today.

I always thought i felt knackered before but my god he didnt tell me about this overwhelming need for sleep like you could just pass out right there and then

It's rotten, especially when you have DCs to attend to.

How old are your DCs ?

Yep I also take mine in the evening so the tired bit comes just in time for bed!!

but once you feel back to your old self you'll be too busy enjoying life to notice,I promise!!

ds1 is nearly 4 and ds2 is nearly 2
Bundles of energy and loudness [sick face]

Hi all

I have just been diagnosed with postnatal depression and have been given the same anti depressants, i have been taking them for almost 2 weeks now i had a few good days but feeling bad again, i am on 10mg but going to up it to 20mg on wednesday as instructed by my GP

Is this normal for me to be feeling good one minute then crap the next?

xx

Dont ask me i only just started!
You started on quite a low dose though didnt you i got put straight onto 20mg and im only depressed not post-natel!

Apparently its ok though in the beginning to hhave the swings in mood

Thank you

I have heard that is can take at least 4 to 6 weeks before you start to feel better again as your body adjusts to them, its vile i dont want to go out the house today im frightened incase something bad happens!

xxx

i know i cant even work up the energy to walk to the shop round the corner and im so desperate for a fag!!!

Aww babes i was like that the other week

My partner has even brought me a new car to cheer me up which it did for the first couple of days but now im feeling crappy again, i hope this gets better, how long you been taking your tablets for? and how do i add ya on here, sorry am new to this

xxx

you dont add you just chat lol
I wish i had a dp to buy me a car!!
Mind you i need to pass my test first and that requires lessons

i only started taking them yesterday thats why im so suprsed at this tiredness

oh that is poo i was hoping you could add people on here, i just read your profile says you are from wolverhapton cute picture by the way, i am from birmingham!

What you on 20mg? i was terrible for the first week couldnt eat and constantly felt dizzy and nausea

Secretstars, I think it's normal to feel up and down. I still do, and I have been on the them for 6 months. I started on 20mg but and now on 40mg, and I think I might go up to 60mg when I next week the doc, which is at the end of the month.
I still have the extreme tiredness, which sometimes stops me from driving.

picture? You only saw one i have about 100 lol
Yup i live in bilston in wolverhamton.
Im on 20mg started yesterday so brand spanking new and wondering what will happen

Thanks for your advuce wotulookinat, i just hope that this anxiety lifts and i can start to go out with my friends again without panicking all the bloody time!

the wiltedrose when do yoy take your pills morning or night? i started taking mine in morning and found out that was a big mistake so took them on the evening which helped me sleep better

xx

Just to tell you girls,they made me feel worse at certain points in the first three weeks and I was tempted to stop I thought why take something that makes me feel worse!!! But it really is just everthing changing and leveling itself out.

I agree 10 does sound like quite a low dose. I started on 20 because of bad panick attacks and serve migraines(which they are also used to treat). I was doing really well on them but I wasn't quite 'there' so i went up to 40 which were briiliant,but I didn't want the tiredness. I am going to try 30 next. You just have to experiment a bit.
I did find pushing through the hard days helped,trying to get myself into a routine.

I am sure you can feel tired though also through the stress of where you are at in life mixed with the meds. This won't last. Good luck to you both.x.

i took mine in the morning and now i wish i didnt i can barely move i feel so tired i cant even get up to see to kids right now its quite scary

Well i am upping my dosage wednesday to 20mg doctor advised i started on 10mg to lesson the side affects, i really just hope that all of this gets better as i cant take it anymore!

perhaps you should start taking them on the evening starting from tomorrow i did that i take mine now at 7pm and find they help me relax and i can watch the telly and have a good nights sleep, plus you are sleeping off all the side affects

x

Why don't you change to taking them at night TWR ?

You could either take 1 tonight or leave it in the morning and take your third tomorrow night ?

i dont know the docter said to me take them in the morning he didnt mention what to do if i wanted to switch to evening has anyone done it without talking to doc?

Its only early days maybe i should leave it an dsee if it goes i dont know!!!

Yeah my gp told me the same thing to take them in the morning so the next day i didnt take it in the morning i waited til the night time, was so much better babes, try it or if your unsure call your gp and ask it shouldnt be a problem

My only real side effect was excessive yawning! I needed a lot of sleep in the first couple of weeks then after that I really was transformed. I was also only on 10mg for about 6 months.

Please stick with them - they really made a change for the better for me.

Oh, and I got blind drunk on more than one occasion whilst taking them. Next day I had a headache, dry mouth, tiredness and fry-up cravings

Good luck x

After only 2 tablets I wouldn't have thought it would matter if you change time of day.