Just taken my first Citalopram...

[galen]

So the GP agreed I had PND and prescribed citalopram, since I did well on this last time I had it. I have just taken my first one. Didn't feel too bad last time - hoping I don't feel to off this time round. May not have been the best time to start, as I have LOADS still to do over the next coupple of days, but I figured the sooner I started the sooner I would start to feel better.
So who wants to hold me hand! In a way I'm relieved, but also a bit bummed as I didn't get PND with the baby before this one, and don't know why it has struck again now.
Still heres hoping this horrible black cloud will start to live, and I can become a decent human being again. I have been such a horrible grumpy mum lately I feel so bad for my beautiful kids

galen good luck . Have not direct experience of citralopram but wanted to say good luck . It is a stressful and emotional time of year. hope someone gives you more personal advice on their experiences.

I have 6 kids , aged 10, 9, 6, 4, 2 and 8 months. A lot to deal with! And they need me to be able to be function and be a good mum to them.

I've been taking it for about 3m and it's worked miracles.

big hand-hold from me. things will get better. and like Galen says, it is good for you and your children. you've done wonderfully well to get to do something to make yourself feel better.

good luck and take care

T4T

So last night I didn't have a great night. Felt quite jittery and sort of "buzzed" and found it really hard to get to slepp. Now of course it didn't help that my 2 yr old and 4 yr old are both ill so I was up a lot to them , and then they woke baby who took ages to get back down, then woke again 3 hours later.... so hard to tell whether I would have got much sleep anyway!
Decided though to try taking them in the morning - as that is when I took them before and I seemed OK. I do feel a bit sort of sick and shakey this afternoon - but I also have a horrible virus so can't totally blame the meds - anyway hoping it passes as I feel a bit yuk!
Thanks for the hand holding - good luck to all you others too.

I tend to forget to take mine far too often. (Which is bad because I also have epilepsy meds to take).

Don't feel like you've failed because you have to take tablets. It isn't anything you did or didn't do. It's a genuine illness like anything else. Maybe it's easier for me to accept that depression is something unnafected by your base personality because I'm used to my brain doing crappy things to me like making me freeze up and lose an hour to absence seizures, but it's true all the same. It's a chemical imbalance caused by the physical trauma of pregnancy and childbirth, and if your body struggled on for a few monthis before it hit, then that doesn't make it any less real.

I've also just taken my first citalopram. DD2 is 6 months old; I have a 2yo DD too. The PND had crept up slowly it seems. But I'm just glad now there's something I can do about it. It feels like I've had a really difficult time the past few months.
I feel unbothered about Christmas and have just missed my birthday (and lots of toddler parties) to a nasty bout of flu.
Hope things get better for all of us.