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Re: Celexa Side Effects - temperature tweaking

Posted by Emme on January 8, 2002, at 7:01:35

In reply to Re: Celexa Side Effects - temperature tweaking » Emme, posted by Mitch on January 7, 2002, at 23:24:28

> > Your mix sounds very similar to mine except that instead of the Wellbutrin I'm trying Lamictal. So I'm not the only one who gets the tired/wired feeling! Problem is, I can't stand it - makes me need to lie down. I generally have to tame it with Klonopin. It sounds like you really are sensitive if you're sweating that much on such a tiny dose. The hot flashes have in fact decreased a little bit for me, though I suppose they might come back if I should have to raise the dose. But feeling cold all the time has really been getting me down - I've even been too chilly to do things around my apt because I want to stay under a blanket. I sit with my back against my warmest radiator and read. I've been wondering what was wrong with me - my last thyroid check in the summer was normal but I am thinking another test wouldn't hurt. I do feel less worried hearing that others have thermal regulation problems with this drug.
> >
> > I too have felt the warm feeling in the center of my body. I thought maybe it was heartburn - I've never had heartburn so I don't really know what it feels like, but I thought perhaps that was it. The timing made me think it was related to the Celexa.
> >
> > How do you feel when you wake up? I wake up around 6 feeling unrested and a bit anxious/jittery. So it makes me wonder if my quality of sleep is very good. If I wait a while on the weekends I can often go back to sleep for a few more hours. I'm going to keep the 36 hour half life in mind. Maybe every-other day dosing would be an option for me if I need to decrease it more. Or even try 1.5 mg daily. I'm good with the little syringe. :) Stuff tastes like Scope, doesn't it?
> >
> > Thanks for your input.
> >
> > Emme
>
> Hi Emme,
>
> I feel okeedokee when I get up. It is very strange, but with my current combo if I stay up an extra hour or two I still wake up about eight hours later regardless. I think they are making a liquid Celexa (Chloe is this correct?). However, what I do is get out a utility razor and take a 10mg halftab and bisect it once and then bisect the two halves yet again. I take the approx. 2.5mg chunk every other day. I *was* crushing 10mg and adding a few milliliters of vodka (citalopram is freely soluble in ethanol), and a little juice, doing the math-you get the picture.
> Yeah, I would first try cutting the Celexa back and see if you sleep better. BTW-Celexa gives me the worst heartburn of the SSRI's (I mean reflux heartburn, yuck), but I can sleep OK (which is screwed up on Prozac and Zoloft), don't feel like puking (like Luvox), and I don't feel too numbed (like Paxil). Pick your poison.
> Oh, here's a simple trick for sleep that helps. If you *can* take all of your daily Klonopin at bedtime. Also toss in 25mg of Benadryl with it. That works great for me.
>
> Mitch

Hi Mitch,

Well, after a few days now at 2 mg Celexa, I am no longer miserably freezing cold all the time. Just back to my *normal* cool-blooded self. So that's better, but it's hard to say yet if it's helping my mood - probably too soon to tell, and I'm busy titrating the lamictal. If I decide to increase the Celexa again, I'll have to do it extremely slowly. Yeah, they do make a liquid, which is what I'm using. I like the ease and control over dosing. But I'm all too familiar with performing microsurgery on tablets of various drugs. :) My two-dollar pill splitter made that easier.

I seem to need Klonopin in the morning. I can fall asleep but I wake up jittery and with my heart pounding. It's probably the Lamictal making me more stimulated and I need to offset it. I wonder if the extra Klonopin at night would carry through till morning so I'd wake up more relaxed. I might try the Benadryl thing - good idea. I guess I could also try extra Neurontin at night. In the past I've also used a dash of Seroquel to help my sleep. Yep, many poisons to pick from. I'll start tyring them out. I just hate being on so many things at the same time and I'm hoping to be able to drop one or two out at some point.

So how do you feel on your current mixture?

Emme

 

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