Posted by joe schmoe on July 9, 2011, at 14:05:42
In reply to Re: Feeling terrible on citalopram - need advice. » andy013, posted by Phillipa on July 9, 2011, at 10:45:03
It is possible you actually have a contagious disease, like the flu, which is giving you these severe symptoms all of a sudden. I know someone else who got a fever recently so there is stuff going around. Could also be food poisoning. There is a tendency to blame meds for everything that goes wrong in life, because they are an easily identified variable.
I have been on and off citalopram a number of times. gman22 is correct, 10mg is a very small dose. I have gone as high as 60, anything less than 20 is not considered therapeutic. So it could be you are just not using enough and what you are feeling emotionally is the underlying depression, not a side effect of the citalopram.
In my experience, if you take a low dose of an antidepressant and you don't feel better, the doctor does not take you off it, they raise the dose and try it at higher levels before giving up on it.
Anyway I hope you feel better and assuming you feel better in a day or two from your illness, I would try the citalopram at a higher (normal therapeutic) dose, especially if it helped you before.
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