Has anyone tried Citalopram?

[Brooke Crane]

Hi guys and girls,

Has anyone here tried Citalopram? If so, how did/do you find it?
My doctor prescribed me them but I am uncertain as to whether I should try them. I hate taking medication.

Thanks for reading ! x

[raggamuffin]

Had it for 3 months. I don't agree with medication for treating anxiety. There's no instant or overnight cure. Didn't lessen anxiety or fears. Only thing it did do was prevent ejaculation. It's used for premmature ejaculation too apparently. So I was still anxious and the pelasure fo sex with my current gf at the time was removed. :confused:

Ed

[mrnewbigginzg]

Had it for 3 months. I don't agree with medication for treating anxiety. There's no instant or overnight cure. Didn't lessen anxiety or fears. Only thing it did do was prevent ejaculation. It's used for premmature ejaculation too apparently. So I was still anxious and the pelasure fo sex with my current gf at the time was removed. :confused:

Ed

This is am anytyphcotic unusual to be given for anxiety bud was it a doc or psychiatrist ?

[browneyes78]

Citaprolam is an antidepressant generic for celexa. It is also the reduced form of lexapro. When they reformulated the citaprolam and added an anti-anxiety to it that is now the lexapro.

[mrnewbigginzg]

Citaprolam is an antidepressant generic for celexa. It is also the reduced form of lexapro. When they reformulated the citaprolam and added an anti-anxiety to it that is now the lexapro.

Tanks for the understanding there's just so much out there're to read lol

[julie_essex]

I have been taking this for three months now. I was really against taking any medication but in the end was willing to try anything to help with my anxiety attacks and the constant fear that something bad is going to happen to me. I am planning to take the tablets for six months and am also doing a meditation course. I do feel better since taking the tablets but have found the meditation to be brilliant at helping me to relax. I think for me tablets are a short term fix, and not a solution to the problem. I am just using them until I am able to hopefully be able to cope on my own. I think that there is such a lack of support for anxiety and my doctor did not suggest any alternative other than medication. I have since doing meditation and taking the tablets only had one panic attack which was last night, which is an improvement to prior to this.
Good luck - just do whatever you think is right for you. I have only found this forum tonight and am surprised at how many people are suffering too.

[mrnewbigginzg]

I have been taking this for three months now. I was really against taking any medication but in the end was willing to try anything to help with my anxiety attacks and the constant fear that something bad is going to happen to me. I am planning to take the tablets for six months and am also doing a meditation course. I do feel better since taking the tablets but have found the meditation to be brilliant at helping me to relax. I think for me tablets are a short term fix, and not a solution to the problem. I am just using them until I am able to hopefully be able to cope on my own. I think that there is such a lack of support for anxiety and my doctor did not suggest any alternative other than medication. I have since doing meditation and taking the tablets only had one panic attack which was last night, which is an improvement to prior to this.
Good luck - just do whatever you think is right for you. I have only found this forum tonight and am surprised at how many people are suffering too.

Ur absolutely right meditation works but for me it finding the motivation to do it I find hard coz when am depress I can hardly even wash myself ! X

[julie_essex]

I am doing a course and they try and to encourage meditating twice a day. When I do it twice a day I do feel better and noticed on days that I have missed meditating I am more on edge. It is a struggle as means getting up half an hour earlier but I'm hoping it will get easier. Good luck with your motivation, I realise it is difficult.

[jessed03]

I am doing a course and they try and to encourage meditating twice a day. When I do it twice a day I do feel better and noticed on days that I have missed meditating I am more on edge. It is a struggle as means getting up half an hour earlier but I'm hoping it will get easier. Good luck with your motivation, I realise it is difficult.

how long have you been meditating julie?

Meditation had such a profound effect on my life. It took me from being an uptight person, so intolerant of peoples behaviour, that i'd excuse myself, go to the bathroom, and bang my head on the walls at the smallest amount of annoyance on my part, to a person who can willingly laugh, and show patience at very unreasonable behaviour. Totally transformed my social anxiety too. I was a person who couldn't even look shop keepers in the eye as I paid for milk, now, I happily give speeches, as well as charm pretty girls on the underground, as everybody watches - haha!

I would recommend it to anyone. Took me a long while to find a type that I found relaxing. When my depression was bad, I just did it lying down in bed. It takes very little effort after a few practice sessions.

As for Citalopram, they seem to give it to everybody in the UK. GPs always seem to prescribe citalopram or fluoxetine. I tried Citalopram, I think it's very well tolerated usually. Made me feel good. I took it when I was a teenager though, for depression. I can't comment for the anxiety I suffered later on :)

[BarefootContessa]

I just began it 3 days ago and so far no problems. I am taking it for depression, binge eating disorder and anxiety. I also take Inderal for panic and anxiety. I am tolerating both very well, but meds are a crapshoot, what helps one, hinders another.

Best of luck with it should you decide to try it.

[Brittany1995]

This medicine worked for me for 2 years! Then my body like became immune to it... It didn't help any. But I wish you luck!! When it did work it was amazing to feel "normal" again!

[AnxietyFreak2012]

Celexa is not usually used for anxiety. I have taken it for 4 months I gained 30 lbs got more depressed and it didn't touch my anxiety.

[Brittany1995]

It helped with my anxiety amazingly. And now that I think of it, it might be why I gained weight.....dammit.

[kakariki]

I have been taking it for about 4 weeks and apart from initial feeling sick and a bit dizzy I am finding it wonderful. I sleep so much better and just feel generally so much calmer. I dont want to be on them long but I havent felt this good in a long time. It can affect people differently so all you can do is try it I guess.

[DannyB]

I have just been given a prescription for Citalopram from the GP today for my anxiety. My anxiety and depression has been really bad this week and i have recently stopped working due to it. So i hope these tablets help me out alot as i need to get back to work and get the rest of my house deposit saved up. My mind keeps telling me bad things will happen if i take them so i am now too scared to take them...

[alankay]

It helped but I never slept well on it so back to prozac went. Each responds differently to these ssri's so you have to try it. Alankay

[locksey]

It helped but I never slept well on it so back to prozac went. Each responds differently to these ssri's so you have to try it. Alankay

They Made me feel sick so they gave me sertraline & propanalol but I wean myself off them so only take them bowt once a week now or wen I'm not feelin gd

[foxchild]

Hi DAnny

I have taken them and they didn't help me! But this doesn't mean the wont work for you ! It's a good drug and commonly used to treat anxiety and depression!
Give it a go give it 2 weeks if there is no change or you get worse go and get them changed!
Sertraline is great but again depends what suits you!

It could take a 3 or 4 times to get the right drug for you

Carly

[Chrisjs]

Late to the party but this is the most recent thread on citalopram I found so I thought I'd add on. I've been taking citalopram for about 3-4 weeks now. The first two-three weeks I was taking 1 10mg tablet per day, but after my doctor checked in and I told him I had had no improvement he recommended I up the dose to 2 pills a day. I've been taking 20mg a day for about a week and have noticed at least a slight decrease in my physical symptoms of anxiety (crying, shakiness, restless limbs, agitation, lack of concentration) which is great, but I have had a few side effects. Since upping the dose I've been experiencing excessive yawning (I'm talking literally yawning every 1-2 minutes unless I'm really concentrating on not doing so) even though I'm not necessarily feeling tired or groggy. It doesn't actually make me sleepy or disoriented. It also seems to induce an exaggerated gag reflex. I have not actually gagged but I often have a pressure in the back of my throat that makes me feel like my throat wants to gag, but it never does. As a result my throat feels almost thick, like it swells just a bit. Uncomfortable for sure, but not necessarily a deal breaker. Better than crying my eyes out and hyperventilating, that's for sure.

Anyone else have these kinds of reactions with citalopram?

[ABJac13]

Hey, just thought I would add some experience to the thread for you. I have been taking Celexa for 3 years now, like you I started on 10mg daily and only recently have I moved to 20mg. I can't really comment on how it compares to others because I've only taken Celexa, but my experience with it has been great and disappointing.

When I started, the first month I saw no difference, after that first month, it was night and day. I went from having several panic attacks a day, and relentless daily anxiety to feeling like I had pre-anxiety. Unfortunately I feel now like I'm getting immune to it, and it has become a lot less effective for me. In my experience, the drug is highly effective and very well tolerated (very few/mild side effects) loved this drug, sad to say I feel a change coming soon.

Best,
A