Just started taking Citalopram, just making me feel like I'm going to be sick at the moment

Just started taking Citalopram, just making me feel like I'm going to be sick at the moment.
Gonna get better or should I an hero?

Give it a week and the sickness stops
Then you can forget your sex life
You won’t be able to orgasm and your libido will be 0
Enjoy

so, citalopram worked very well for me for a few months. After that it took a shit and made me more suicidal. first week or two you'll feel VERY dizzy but it goes away. Also if you want to get off, good luck, shit is weird as fuck. im on prozac now and its been great ever sense. GL OP dont an hero it gets better.

I was on Sertraline for a little while but that was a fucking wild ride so I came off that quick.
Here's hoping this works

I ain't getting sex anyway so it could be worse

Used it for about 18 months. Worked "fine". When you decide to get off, do it gradually, if you hard stop you're gonna feel worst than befor. Now on Sertraline for two months, so far, so good. Lower libido but can get hard without problem and I last longer.

Sertraline made me feel 10 times worse than I did, really fucked me up.
Good luck with it

Well, I think not every medicine is for everyone but definitely feeling more focused and less anxious.

Medfag here. SSRIs take weeks to months for your body to adjust to them, and it takes years for your brain to rewire itself even after the chemical imbalance is corrected. Most serotonin in the body is actually in the nerves that control and coordinate gut movement and processing of food, which is why it feels gross.

Serotonin also lessens nerve sensitivity to pain, and sexual pleasure is carried by the same type of nerve endings, so it commonly gets harder to cum, but other forms of sexual dysfunction are less common.

Only around half of people respond well to the first SSRI they try, and lifestyle changes like regular exercise (even walking) and a regular sleep schedule will help whatever pill you're taking. If you don't have a psychiatrist, get one, and tell them any side effects that bother you. There's lots of ways they can tweak things to optimize your treatment specifically for you.

I have depression myself, and I've been taking duloxetine for it for several years; I started with citalopram, but it didn't work for me. It took months for the pills to dig me out, and years before I fully felt the way I did before, but I got there, and so will you.

>Just started taking Citalopram, just making me feel like I'm going to be sick at the moment.
>Gonna get better or should I an hero?
Citalopram will fuck up your life. All SSRI/NSRI's will. Move to fucking Thailand do something else, join an amry, do cocain whatever. change your life to feel better.

Shit, I really didn't expect that much help.
This is my second AD and it's working much better initially than the Sertraline, but only time will tell.
Appreciate it.

You're 90% on what my Psych said. Specially important to highlight getting your brain "back on track" could take years and adjustment is a process (Sertraline made it difficult for me to sleep well).

I personally appreciate the encouragement.

I tried it but was totally out of it, felt like trying recreationals.

>Medfag here. SSRIs
Really. Internist here. All antidepressants will fuck you up unless you are a 50 year old woman. They will change your behavior especially when you drink, they will make you impulsive and anxious

Not my case

How does cocaine react with SSRIs, asking for a friend

Worked good for me for a couple of years. It's totally FUCKED UP getting off of it if you don't replace with another A.D. Don't drink on it (will fuck your liver up fast). I'm currently on 75mg elavil and 10mg prozac per day. As long as I get enough sleep, life is breddy gud.

Depends on the individual, Alcohol is a big No no, if your friends doing large amounts of cocaine same answer.

Genuinely? Why is drinking a no?

Hey I take that
My life is pretty normal right now
All of 2 friends, a gf and a well paying job (100k annually before taxes)
But taking this shit made me overcome way too much and it got me in trouble i.e confident to steal a lot, import goods illegally into my country, forge documents, lie to federal agents etc.
My life will spiral out of control eventually

Hey guys, they're tryna give me meds for depression, do i just say fuck it and not take it because reading what you've all said really puts me off now

My dick did fine on it. Took a hella long time to come though. Docs will give you viagra n shit if it keeps you from getting hard still after a couple months adjustment.

Mixed with Meds lowers inhibitions, with an ultra detached from reality feeling.
Could get into alot of trouble.

>Genuinely? Why is drinking a no?
Because you loose your impulse control (you will get into fights and fuck your bf's girlfriend) and usually become an alcoholic. It's a real nice class of drugs. It destroyed my life and most people who I know of have had the same experience

I tried this shit. It made me suicidal as fuck. It's a wonder that I made it out alive. Ended up doing a major overdose of benzos and alcohol because trying to kill the urge to kill myself. Had hangover for a week after.

Ask to get wellbutrin. Wellbutrin is great.

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I'd ask some advice on Sup Forums

Greatly increases the chances of serotonin syndrome. You do not want death by femur cracking convulsions!

Ssri's ruined my 20s, now i am in my 30s wondering wtf happend, and left with nothing.

None of this helps in the long run.

I went clubbing on the first day I took SSRIs, it was fun!

Ive been on Citalopram since my late teens i'm now 28 and have to say it has helped massively, you do lose your sex drive but the the depression will subside. Stick with it man you'll feel better soon!

Cocaine releases dopamine and mimics adrenaline, increasing heart rate, constricting blood vessels, and making you sweat. It also makes you number to pain. None of these are directly modulated by SSRIs, but it's a good idea to avoid mixing psychoactive drugs without first trying the mix in a safe environment where you won't hurt yourself or others if you react unexpectedly, and somebody there to watch and make sure you're okay.

Elavil guy here. A.D.s should definitely be a last resort. If you end up being hooked on them for 20 years, they will definitely take some time off your life. Not as much time as an hero though.

This was my exact experience with that shit.

Sorry, was going to say that side effects are generally temporary, and well worth it to get out of clinical depression. Only about a third of men will notice much of a change sexually - usually difficulty climaxing. Around half of people will notice some degree of stomach upset. Most people in either group get better with time.

You can always try to improve your mood with lifestyle changes, too, but generally, depressed people get better fastest when they combine that with an SSRI. If you've been feeling depressed for a while and it isn't going away, it might be worth a shot.

They did a lot of those bad things to me. I would Prolly not be alive to tell the stories without the ADS though. Try to get off them (gradually) once a year if you can. Bonus is when your off them, you can come 10 times a day. Comming 10 times a day will depressed again though. So if you wanna stay off of them, don't jerk it more than once a week.

Like boneitis.

I take 20 mg escitalopram. Your libido gets lowered but its fine, you also take longer to cum but it is also fine. I'd say this drug saved my life

Ask to get wellbutrin as well. Wellbutrin often counters the negative effects SSRIs have on libido.

For modern SSRIs, this isn't true, based on the around 30 years' worth of data we have so far. They don't appear to have many long-term side-effects, largely likely because it doesn't directly release neurotransmitters, but rather selectively modulates your body's natural release and reuptake in specific cases, such that most of serotonin's other functions, outside nerves, aren't really affected. Most SSRIs are either eliminated from the body in urine as-is or with minimal modification in the liver first. Again, everything we've seen so far indicates that there aren't many long-term side-effects.

sickness will go after a week or two
then you'll start to feel sick if you DON'T take it
also it'll make it a lot harder for you to cum but you will figure out how to eventually
plus it's sort of a bonus taking 999 hours to cum
girls love that shit

This is true. Sex is incredible when you're coming off SSRIs, because your body will have adjusted to their painkiller effects by turning up the volume, so to speak, on incoming signals to match - so when you go off SSRIs and fuck, your dick is basically like when you're watching porn on headphones on loud and you accidentally pull the plug so it defaults to your speakers.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm done with meds now. Used to take citalopram and seroquel, which for time did keep me from killing myself and/or someone else, but one day it just hit me that my memory of the past few years while on the meds was a total blur. I was going through life in an emotionally anesthetic fog and it was holding me back more than it was helping. So I quit, which sucked, and worked to deal with my issues in other ways, which sucked, but I don't think I can go back to the meds now. Even if some days are really dark and difficult.

After I was on it for a year, it still took me at least 30 min. to cum during sex. Once I got used to waiting that long, I stopped waiting, relaxed and just totally got into enjoying fucking for fucking's sake. Now, when I come, my brains ooze out of my ears. Sometimes the side effects are the good parts. Try to use ADs like crutches. Once the bone is healed, no more need for them.

Yeah. This.

Okay doc. But don't come crying to me when when your number of Parkinson's cases double.

Been on it for eight months. Shit doesn't help at all.

But if you drink moderately with them, they synergistically fuck your liver to shreds. Effector and Cymbalta are especially hard on the liver.

>10mg
noob

Hey, medic. What about Vortioxetine (Brintellix)?

Libido is dead, sometimes still depressive crisis

How long off?

MEEEEDIC!

Yeah... get off what you're on. Other classes of ADs might help, depending on what you belive you're prob is.

Brintellix brand name was changed to Trintellix...People were confusing it with Brilinta.

It's a great drug, but because it's so new it is very expensive. Hope you have good insurance.

About 4 years now.

30mg a day for like 3-4 months now. no libido, only cum to clean out the pipes. make sure you come off them in like 6 months, but never cold turkey bcus that gives you depression symptoms.

Like wellbutrin, wellbutrin is the dogs bollocks.

Googled it. interesting. Sounds like Serocaine.

Sounds promising. I feel like I could get off'em if I had a few months off work. Longest I've been off in 20 years is 6 weeks. I was totally non functional the whole time. Felt more like a sad flu than depression.

Didn't do shit for me. No good or bad effects. Wellbutrin seems to be the safest on paper.

You're thinking of antipsychotics which directly target the D2 dopamine receptor. Long-term use of these can indeed cause Parkinsonian symptoms as a result, as Parkinson's results from the degeneration of the dopamine pathways in the brain.

SSRIs and SNRIs, on the other hand, don't target dopamine receptors. NDRIs like bupropion do target dopamine reuptake, but this is different from what antipsychotics do, and as far as we can tell, NDRIs don't increase Parkinson's risk long term either.

There have been case reports, but the rate of liver disease isn't particularly high for these drugs, and serious liver damage is exceedingly rare; only around 1% of people who take duloxetine, even at a high dose, will even develop abnormalities on liver function tests.

Oh, and the fucking brain zaps and vertigo. "Discontinuation symptoms" are a bad trip all around.

Appreciate where you're coming from, but how many of these drugs have you been on and off of?

This is by far the worst aspect of SSRIs and SNRIs that are affected by it; duloxetine, which I take, only has around a twelve hour half-life in the body, so they'll start in as little as two days. Fluoxetine, or Prozac, doesn't have this problem because its half-life is several days long, and so it basically tapers itself. Other SSRIs vary, based mostly on half-life.

You mean : I ain't getting sex anyway so it couldn't be any worse

It puts me in a state of constant hypomania, feels great. Plus I'm never tired. And sex is better.

Either me, an immediate family member, or someone I was dating at the time: most of them. Anxiety and depression run in the family, and I've dated some crazy bitches in my time, so I've seen firsthand the long-term effects of: olanzapine (Zyprexa), quetiapine (Seroquel), valproate (Depakote), risperidone (Rispersal), aripiprazole (Ability), lithium, sertraline (Zoloft), escitalopram (Lexapro), bupropion (Wellbutrin), and alprazolam (Xanax).

I myself have been prescribed and taken amphetamine (Adderall), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), hydroxyzine, citalopram (Celexa), and currently I take duloxetine (Cymbalta) and methylphenidate (Concerta).

I've also seen something like a couple thousand patients who were taking psych meds of one kind or another, including several dozen for every drug that's been listed ITT so far.

*Abilify

I spent months tapering off. Not sure exactly how many, but at least 3. It still sucked. Brain zaps like other user mentioned.

Its what i take, sickness goes away quickly. I still have a libido, i just cant get off near as easy as i used to. Fucking takes so long i just start getting sore.

it gets better, more or less.

Yeah, the sex part was why I tried it. I was comming off of xoloft when I started it, so that might have screwed things up. Just took wellbutrin 2 months. Might try again sometime. Hypomania kicks are the only time I get shit done. My Hypomania is normie baseline.

Hey, also medfag here. How do you go about starting the conversation with a doctor to get a prescription for an SSRI? I live in a fairly small place (about 100,000 people) where I'm a medical student, and I just hate the thought of them knowing that I'm a medical professional who needs this kind of help. I just can't bring myself to make an appointment to talk about this crap.

Currently happening to me, drinking on meds is one of the worst things i started doing. Fuck its hard to stop though.

Which dose did you take?

I'm on 150mg now, but want to up it to 300mg next time I see the doc.

I really love that feeling of hypomania.

You just do it, like i had to. It took a walk to the razors edge before i knew i needed help that bad. It helps some, but you need people that can help support you too.

Can't remember. Was on Cymbalta for 6 years after and Elavil for the last year.

Nigga wuuuut

Just tell them. Depression is super common among doctors and especially trainees; something like a third to half of medical students and residents exhibit symptoms.

Also, virtually every practicing doctor knows at least one or two colleagues who committed suicide. I know of three, and I'm not even finished with training.

Adderall takes its toll.

maybe try to switch to something else. i just started a low-dose of Escitalopram and it supposedly is a lot easier on the stomach/other side effects. delayed ejac. starting to go away.
especially if you keep the doses low.

I want serocaine

I know; that's why I stopped. I never took that one regularly because of how keyed up it made me. I switched to methylphenidate because it doesn't seem to have as much of an effect, and it doesn't have data showing it has long-term negative effects after thirty years on the market, but I guess it could. I'm half a retard without it, though.

Get ready for sore arms from masturbating,gonna take u hours,aside from that after a week or two you should "even out"

Couldn't sleep on that stuff had to have sertraline in the morning and mirtazapine to help regulate sleep as I was only sleeping for 2 hour bursts

Doesn't sound as sexy as Celexa. When it came out people were saying it gave chicks orgasm when they yawned. It got popular quick. It was really only reported by a handful of chicks out of thousands. Apparently it give a few chicks persitant arousal syndrome. If was gonna have a syndrome, that one would be second only to huge dick syndrome.

What do you think about modifinil?

Does ritlan even work short term? I took a single dose once. Mainly just noticed increased heart rate.

I've been on that stuff for years. Absolutely zero sex drive and think I'd probably off myself if not for parents that don't deserve to deal with that.

Either I need more, or I need to get off. I got xanax for actual panic attacks and citalopram has not stopped depression. I hate going on or off antidepressants so I just stay feeling in a controlled shitty mode.

I can death grip an orgasm out in 5 minutes with a little imagination while on any ssri/snri. Oral/Vaginally sex take way longer!!! After about 20 minutes I get my wife to start biting my dick and shit.

If you're really, really, really russian-roulette depressed, MAOIs can often snap you out of it fast. The possible side-effects are many, hypertensive crisis probably being the worst (makes you glad that you're not dead, then kills you).

Any of you med guys can tell me about Viibryd? I started taking it recently. Doctor told me to take 10mg for first week, then 20mg for second week, then go up to 40mg. since I'm still on 10mg, I don't feel much if anything. What should I expect?

Indicated for shift work sleep disorder, can be an adjunct for ADHD. May be nootropic.

Better side-effect profile than drugs it typically replaces (Ambien, benzos, stimulants). Long term effects few, but that's not certain because it's relatively new.

Personally, for me, it didn't do much of anything. But there's a good chance my system is too far beyond fucked up for it to be useful - it's not supposed to be a crazy hardcore stim. If you're not already stuffed full of amphetamines, energy drinks, and caffeine, it might be useful. Sadly, that's what I was doing when I gave it a shot and it did fuck all.

Ritalin only helps people with an underactive prefrontal cortex, the area that's responsible for acting as gatekeeper between the base drives and emotions, centered in the limbic system closer to the brainstem and spine, and the frontal cortex in the forehead, which plans and executes actions.

In people where this area is weak, stimulants and especially Ritalin work especially strongly on these neurons, which paradoxically makes medicated people with ADHD appear calmer. ADHD, OCD, substance abuse, Tourette's, and other impulse control disorders all involve low activity here, which is also why having one of them makes it more likely for you or a relative to have it or another.

Used it for 4 or 5 times during a period where I was getting only 3 hours a day sleep due to workload. Kept me from nodding off, but I still felt shitty and fatigued.

Sounds Norwegian. Fishing can get depressing when it's slow.

The effects of SSRI meds is to be taken with a grain of salt. Unless you actually have a problem with your serotonin levels (which iirc was about 20% of cases), it's probably not going to help in a non-placebo way. And from my experience, it only triggered some rare type of tinnitus, which still hasn't completely stopped, after half a year since I stopped taking them.
SSRIs are just the first thing psychiatrists prescribe to see what sticks, since they are the (mostly) the least harmful and tame.

tldr: Had a bad experience, would not recommend. Read up, not very effective anyway.

Think the French banned it due to possible liver toxicity. U.S. Army embraced and then prohibited it for the infantry. USAF has limited it "for critical missions only".