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calling earth, come in earth...

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BoysOnToast · 11/03/2008 11:10

am sitting on my own little planet and its a bit lonely really.
i took a leftover citalopram last night coz... well, i spent all day yesterday wanting to be dead and thats no good is it? was a nice day too... dp took me out for lunch, then we had a wander... dc were nice. i dont have any reasons at all to feel the way i do. but i seem to anyway. so now (coz of the pill) i am feeling all stoned and spacey and unable to interact with the world. school run was v embarrasing as people kept talking to me and i just struggled not to seem as empty headed and spaced out as i was feeling.

sigh

i do not mean to belittle anybody elses states of mind - am FAR too wrapped up in my own to even have an opinion, tho am almost unreservedly more compassionate to others than i am myself - but i am really ever so BORED of all this.

sigh.

apologies to those who have been trying to reach me, or who may try. until i come out of this fog again im afraid i will just be hiding away here on planet headfuck.

what a pita

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Dior · 11/03/2008 11:11

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BoysOnToast · 11/03/2008 11:21

hi dior

its not v old. i was only prescribed them in january. they didnt suit me so i stopped. and ive learned today that i hate this feeling at least as much as i hate yesterdays feeling (actually... not sure about that) but i hate it. so no, i wont be getting any more. i suppose i could try a different med... sigh.

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dustystar · 11/03/2008 11:23

Citalopram didn't suit me either. Go back to your GP and ask to try something else. I changed to venlaflaxine and started to feel better within 10 days.

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dustystar · 11/03/2008 11:25

Also just taking one isn't going to help. Ads take a couple of weeks to build up in your system and start working. During this time its common to feel certain side effects like headache and feeling spaced out.

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BoysOnToast · 11/03/2008 11:27

what, better thsn on the citalopram or better than drugless? or both?

thing is, i have good days. and i dont want to medicate those away along with the bad ...

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dustystar · 11/03/2008 11:31

Better than both. Like you I had days where I felt ok and didn't want to go on ADs but when i looked bakc over the previous months I could see that the good days were far fewer than the bad ones and tbh a great deal of the time I just felt like i was existing. I wasn't suicidal I just felt empty and unable to enjoy all the good things in my life.

Venlaflaxine lifted me from that low and enabled me to enjoy life again.

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bundle · 11/03/2008 11:34

citalopram has fairly good side effect profile, which is probably why you were prescribed it. I think you need to go & see someone, x

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Dior · 11/03/2008 15:32

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