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From: H.
Date: 07/08/03
Time: 05:19:42
Remote Name: 68.32.128.88
My doctor put me on Celexa for anxiey and said we'd test it for 6 months to see if it helped. It has been 4 years, and my doctor just kept upping the dosage despite my side effects: inability to focus, sleepy all the time, sweating buckets at night, getting headaches, etc.
I was hopitalized in January for severe depression (my fiance dumped me on New Year's Eve) and they doubled my dosage. I was a zombie for months until I decided to start tapering off. About three weeks ago I stopped altogether (from 60mg to 40mg to 30 mg to 20 and then 10 and then 5mg).
The withdrawal is a nightmare. I can't stop crying. I can't work or drive because of the nausea and the head spinning thing. All I want to do is kill myself. Each day is a victory -- at least I am not dead.
I'm taking B vitamins, and trying the anti-histamines, too. I would welcome advice from someone who has successfully quit, as to what might help me get through it. I feel like I lost the last 4 1/2 years of my life and want to get back to being drug free.
Thanks!!