Posted by Mitch on January 8, 2002, at 9:55:13
In reply to Re: Celexa Side Effects - temperature tweaking, posted by Emme on January 8, 2002, at 7:01:35
> > I feel okeedokee when I get up. It is very strange, but with my current combo if I stay up an extra hour or two I still wake up about eight hours later regardless. I think they are making a liquid Celexa (Chloe is this correct?). However, what I do is get out a utility razor and take a 10mg halftab and bisect it once and then bisect the two halves yet again. I take the approx. 2.5mg chunk every other day. I *was* crushing 10mg and adding a few milliliters of vodka (citalopram is freely soluble in ethanol), and a little juice, doing the math-you get the picture.
> > Yeah, I would first try cutting the Celexa back and see if you sleep better. BTW-Celexa gives me the worst heartburn of the SSRI's (I mean reflux heartburn, yuck), but I can sleep OK (which is screwed up on Prozac and Zoloft), don't feel like puking (like Luvox), and I don't feel too numbed (like Paxil). Pick your poison.
> > Oh, here's a simple trick for sleep that helps. If you *can* take all of your daily Klonopin at bedtime. Also toss in 25mg of Benadryl with it. That works great for me.
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> > Mitch
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> Hi Mitch,
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> Well, after a few days now at 2 mg Celexa, I am no longer miserably freezing cold all the time. Just back to my *normal* cool-blooded self. So that's better, but it's hard to say yet if it's helping my mood - probably too soon to tell, and I'm busy titrating the lamictal. If I decide to increase the Celexa again, I'll have to do it extremely slowly. Yeah, they do make a liquid, which is what I'm using. I like the ease and control over dosing. But I'm all too familiar with performing microsurgery on tablets of various drugs. :) My two-dollar pill splitter made that easier.
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> I seem to need Klonopin in the morning. I can fall asleep but I wake up jittery and with my heart pounding. It's probably the Lamictal making me more stimulated and I need to offset it. I wonder if the extra Klonopin at night would carry through till morning so I'd wake up more relaxed. I might try the Benadryl thing - good idea. I guess I could also try extra Neurontin at night. In the past I've also used a dash of Seroquel to help my sleep. Yep, many poisons to pick from. I'll start tyring them out. I just hate being on so many things at the same time and I'm hoping to be able to drop one or two out at some point.
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> So how do you feel on your current mixture?
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> Emme
Well, it has been the best mix I have been on thus far. I feel like there is such a complicated "envelope" I have to deal with. I just can't seem to handle higher doses of *anything*. Too much of this or that and I am hostile, or I can't sleep, or my guts are wrenching, or can't concentrate, ..... So, it is tiny doses of several things. That's just how it settled out. What I am "lean" on is mood stabilizer. My seasonal depression is lifting away now and I am looking at the BIG rollercoaster that is going to come March-May. I think I can handle it fine if I just drop back the Wellbutrin or maybe stop it. The Wellbutrin is there just to combat the fatigue from the seasonal depression (which it did quite well).Mitch
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