Citalopram to escitalopram
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Just want to ask the group,
Who among you shifted from citalopram to escitalopram? Can you share your experience ??
Thank you
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Posted , 8 users are following.
Just want to ask the group,
Who among you shifted from citalopram to escitalopram? Can you share your experience ??
Thank you
0 likes, 65 replies
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I know it will work soon... So stick with it...
Jv
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ellie1909 john_vince54836
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It is early days for me but I am better than I was in the lead up to Christmas. It does give me peculiar dreams, but perhaps that's my brain having a sort out after a really rough time. I've gone from not even being able to bear having my husband talk to me and being so tense it hurt because I was so anxious (mid December) to being able to go back to work and look after my sons. Not fixed yet, ultimate goal is to be able to travel outside my safe zone (about 3 mile radius from where I live) but I must stay positive.
The switch from 10mg of Cit to 10mg of Escitalopram was thankfully pretty seamless for me, especially considering it was a dose increase (10mg of esc = 20mg of cit). I do get headaches fairly often towards the end of the day but that could eye strain, not necessarily the medicine - either way they haven't been so bad I've had to take paracetamol, I just go to bed!
Hope that helps a bit! Ellie xxx
john_vince54836 ellie1909
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Ive been trying to determine wether changing citalopram to escitalopram is beneficial... Been on citalopram for 4 1/2 months at 10mg , i feel different compare day 1,,, flat mood to happy mood ,no depression.less anxiety... Able to travel... But im still looking forward for my motivation to kick in.. Still have more than 1 yr supply of citalopram ... But in willing to change my meds if i need to..been on citalopram before and it does bring me back to normal.. Hopefully feel more better after 1 more month...
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How are u? Hope your doing fine
Hope to hear your update
Thanks
adam06205 ellie1909
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How you getting on?
I'm due to Switch from citalopram to escitalopram today .
Iv had bad side effects on citalopram.
ellie1909 adam06205
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Good thanks. The switch has gone well for me so far. As long as I'm prepared the night before I'm not waking up with the major anxiety in the mornings. I've been at work everyday without any major jitters (a couple of moments when I've felt a sudden minor flare but it's died away quickly). I haven't challenged myself with long journeys yet, but will be in the Easter holidays. Contemplating going abroad in the summer with husband and children - now if I manage that without a panic attack at the airport it will be the ultimate breakthrough.
I don't have any particular side effects anymore either, apart from a headache now and again but I work in a school so that might just be because I'm doing long noisy days with primary age kids 😉
I'm very pleased with Escitalopram, and extremely grateful to my GP for putting me on them. I'm looking into hypnotherapy, acupuncture and an improved exercise and diet (and finally totally quitting smoking!) to really nail it down.
Hope that helps!
Xxx
adam06205 ellie1909
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Do you sleep ok off escitalopram?
My doc has said to start on 5mg of Es . Or should I just go with 10mg
ellie1909 adam06205
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Sleep wise, I take mine at 8.30pm and I haven't noticed an impact on me falling asleep, but I am a champion sleeper, it's one of my favourite things to do 😂 I did however get very strange dreams. Some anxiety related, and some which, to put it delicately, made me realise perhaps my libido was higher than I had previously thought! But the dreams are more rare now. I wake up actually feeling like I've slept now. I never thought I had depression, only anxiety and was just a bit down because of the effects of anxiety, but looking back I now think perhaps I was depressed as well and so mornings were just hideous. My children can actually now speak to me in the mornings and have me reply as nice mummy not anxious/nauseous mummy.
Xxx
adam06205 ellie1909
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What side effects did you have off cit?
And did you not feel any withdrawal from cit while switching.
And omg your right I wondered why I never had a appetite. I hardly eat anything. And I can't sleep of cit.
Maximum 4/5 hours
My jaws been clenching for a full week at night and during the day.
That's why I'm switching.
Scared to go through the rough week again.
ellie1909 adam06205
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I had a lot - nausea, dry wretching, diarrhoea, anxiety at an all time high, I couldn't bear even being spoken to I was so over sensitised, dizziness, shaking, I was a mess. I had to take 5 mg diazepam on Christmas Day I just couldn't handle it.
I personally felt no withdrawal at all from Citalopram, but I had only been on it 2 weeks when I switched. Escitalopram just felt cleaner to me, it's hard to describe, but it just felt nicer.
Once you are sleeping better I imagine you will see improvements. Lack of sleep is not good for anxiety at all, as I'm sure you know.
Xxx
adam06205 ellie1909
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At least your better on the Es then cit.
And I hope you make a quick recovery.
I ll stay in touch and let you know how I get on xxx
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Xxx
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