Posted by Bill L on December 7, 2000, at 7:16:45
In reply to side effects of celexa, posted by Oola on December 5, 2000, at 19:35:44
Oola - It sounds like you are in a difficult situation. Your anxiety and depression must have been pretty bad to motivate you to take the Celexa in the first place. So it sounds like you probably don't want to just quit the Celexa and go back to feeling the way you did before.
Maybe you could lower the dose of Celexa. Maybe that would give you some of your motivation back.
On the other hand, CCASS responded to your post and said that increasing the dose from 20 mg to 40 mg helped in his or her case.
So it's hard to figure out. Do you have a doctor that you feel comfortable with? That would be the best thing to sit down and talk to a good competent doctor about your options. Good luck!
> I have taken Celexa for over a year now. I was set to graduate in Dec 1999 with by bachelors. I began taking Celexa in Oct 1999. I ended up taking three incomplete grades and was set to graduate whenever I completed these courses. I still have not begun to complete them. Since taking Celexa I have had much less anxiety and depression, but this has come at the cost of all of my motivation. I have attempted to discontinue Celexa several times, however, I have found that each time I do I become extremely agitated, my boyfriend says that I become completely airheaded and indifferent to everything. He says he does not recognize this part of me and feels that his fear of this part of me would be the undoing to our relationship if it were to end. I find that I am frightened of going off of it and yet I am also frightened of staying on it. I cannot live a life with no motivation, it is as though my lack of progression this past 14 months has become a digression. Help!
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