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General => Medication => Topic started by: bookletters on October 15, 2012, 04:33:07 PM
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I have just been to see the GP. Junior doc this time, very professional, listened to me really well and I felt feeling valued and understood!
Thank God after good 4 months of telling the docs "think Citalopram is not working for me" / "My mood's not lifting" / "Am not getting better" / "I feel it's kicking in for one day then I am real bad for rest of the week"/ the doc finally listened to me (in the past it was "well give it more time!" / "It's a very effective drug you know!") and put me back on venlafaxin.
I am so please I was finally listened to. I HATE CITALOPRAM!!!!!!!!!!
The cross over is probably going to be tough but I really hope venlafaxin can help...
I am back in two weeks' time and the doc told me not to worry, they were plenty of other drugs we could try if this didn't do the trick.
Pfew! Just needed to share :)
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Hope it kicks in quickly for you
Z xxx
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Thanks Zaf and thank you so much for your advice too the other day.
I know what AD kicking in feels like and citalopram just never kicked in for me, I hate that drug with great passion grr!!
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That's so good to hear :). You know when things are not working and you have given it a long time. Things may be hard during the change over but stick with it %^% for you. S x x x x
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Thank you!!! %^% back!
I am going to be scared about it not working and relapse and all the rest of it during the crossover I am sure but will hang on there!
So glad that the doc actually listened to me and asked what I wanted to do!
Senior GP treated me with such contempt and she just wouldn't listen grr!!
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That's so infuriating. Try to see this Dr again when you go back. I actually changed dr's a while ago. As I have said my Dr now is very good. S x x x x
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I know!! I was trying to tell her citalopram wasn't working and she asked whether I was ready to stop taking trazadone to help me sleep!!!
I was like "is she even listening??"
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Its just so annoying. Then you come out feeling worse than when you went in. Have you got to start the Venaflaxine straight away? S x x x x
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Yes, I am starting it tonight.
It's helped me massively in the past so I am hoping it will do the trick again. Fingers crossed!
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Everything crossed for you :). S x x x x
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Thanks Shaz!
When you swap meds, did you sometimes think "oh my gosh maybe I have done the wrong thing, what if citalopram was working after all?"
My mood lifts in the evening hence me thinking this now as I am not feeling too bad at night....
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To be honest no. I just knew I would try anything to feel better. I to felt so much better in the evening. In the morning I would be a shaking crying mess but by the evening I was a different person. I would love going to bed but dread waking up. But with time Duloxetine helped. I do so hope you are going to get relief soon. Just try and stick with it as it could be hard the first few days. S x x x x
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Thanks Shaz!
I have cut my dose of citalopram by half this morning and after a few hours of trying to get back to sleep (sleeping crappily with nightmares etc) I vomited my orange juice everywhere... thank you citalopram.... sounds like you have been nothing but a nuisance for sure...
Haven't started on venlafaxine yet, will wait until this evening to take it.
I don't feel like doing anything at all today / don't know what to do with myself, I just feel like staying in bed. I feel anxiety and that everything is going to be tough to cope with :s
I am just hoping venlafaxine works and kicks in rapidly + I can't wait for the evening as my mood is sooo much better then!
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Hopefully it will work quickly. But just keep trying to be positive. I know this is hard %^%. S x x x x
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Thanks Shaz, I took venlafaxine this evening and it must just be a coincidence as it doesn't work so quickly but I now feel all relaxed and was able to do a bit of work earlier!
I am worried what tomorrow morning's going to bring but hey, we'll deal with it!
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Just try and take it one minute at a time. If you need to rest then rest. ((((big hugs)))) for you. S x x x x
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Thank you so much Shaz, you guys do an incredible job being so supportive to people having a tough time!!!
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I felt the same about Citalopram; it did not have any side effects, but neither did it help much. I would visit the GP periodically, claiming the AD's were not working. The prat always convinced me they were helping and I would feel even more depressed if I weren't using them.
I just wrote on your other page, try not to worry too much, it can make us look, even imagine, withdrawal. It must be in the same group of AD as Citalopram, or the GP wouldn't have did a cross over. The fact that your new AD has a calming effect will be helpful. Hopefully you'll get a good sleep, which will help tomorrow feel better.
Good luck
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Some GPs are prats indeed!!!!!
Citalopram made me have nausea, the smell of food kept making me be nauseous and I just hated the thing!
Horrible GP when I was so bad was like "well, you are getting a good dose of medication so we'll just try to hurry the CBT. It is normal to have peaks and trophs you know. Do you feel ready to stop taking the sleeping aid any time soon?"
A girl on another forum I use was describing going through depression without any medication (because she had really bad reactions to all the ones she tried). When I read what her symptoms were like (one day kind of okay, the next unable to go to the shops....) I was like "hang on, I am on medication and I am exactly like her!
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I was on Citalopram for about 18 months but got to the stage where it had no effect on me. My doctor, in her wisdom, stopped it for me as I made the mistake of saying CBT had helped but the Citalopram wasn't helping. I have been coping meds free since which is hard at times.
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Wow, well done for coping without meds Pip, I admire you!
CBT helped me massively too but the meds (when they work!) really make life easier (in my case).
In a way, having gone through all this with citalopram being pretty useless has given me an extra "strength", that of knowing that although it's awful, I can do it "by myself" if that makes sense....
In the next few months, the Monarch headset should be for sale, I sooo want one!
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tv/news/monarch-headset-helps-treat-epilepsy-depression-271543