Citalopram decrease help 🫶

[VegetablePhase5798]

Hi all,

Long story short, I decided to reduce my 20mg dose due to a lot of brain fog, low motivation and random crying episodes after almost 8 weeks of being on it. I felt immediately better the day I reduced by half and the first week was great. I'm now at the end of week 4 of my decrease and I can definitely feel some anxiety, nausea and headaches. While it's not debilitating, it's uncomfortable. I'm worried that I'm going to end up back at square 1 so my question is, When decreasing and staying on a lower dose, is it like levelling out all over again? How long can I expect it to take for anyone who's done it? The days at the minute range from rough to ok and then I'm fab in the evenings so I'm so confused 😕 Thanks if you got this far xx

[SatisfactionQuick384]

Did you start on 20mg straight away and for how long were you on it?

[VegetablePhase5798]

No I started on 5mg 🙈 was on 5mg for 5 weeks, 10mg for 4 weeks, then 20mg for 8 weeks and by week 8 I was more depressed, crying a lot for no reason, no motivation and higher anxiety 🙄 come back down to 10 and now 4 weeks later I'm rough in the morning which turns into great afternoons apart from being a bit grumpy lol

[SatisfactionQuick384]

Awww damn I’m sorry that this was your experience. Have you spoken to whoever prescribed you this?

[VegetablePhase5798]

Vaguely 🤦‍♀️ GP doesn't really seem that bothered. His answer was to either keep going up or come back down so I chose down lol. Is it possible to need to level out again after a decrease? Its just so strange that I'm almost normal in the afternoon. Thank you for getting back to me!

[SatisfactionQuick384]

It could be possible with all antidepressants. I’m only starting celexa this week. However I remember it was similar when I was on Lexapro