tried Celexa again last night
Well I worked up my courage to try a small sliver of the Celexa last
night. Last time I took it, it made me dizzy, light headed and
nauseated so I thought this time I’d take the dose at bedtime and hope
to sleep through it. NO such luck. I woke up around 4 a.m. feeling
pretty nauseated but no weird feelings in the head. I took a 10 mg
pill and quartered it. Then I took a half piece of 1/4 so that is a
tiny tiny piece. I am afraid I am not getting an accurate dose of the
stuff and if I take so little, what would 1/4 do to me? Even 1/2 of
the pill would be too much. I thought if that tiny amount of Celexa
made me feel bad that Lexapro would certainly be too potent for me. I
don’t know -I wish I had more courage and didn’t care so much about
the side effects but the potency of Lexapro really scares me so that’s
why I decided to try the Celexa again last night 
I’m feeling like
such a loser this morning and now I’m not so sure I want to take the
Celexa again tonight and have another bad night’s sleep but I guess
that’s what I have the weekend for. Love Charisse
August 28th, 2005 at 3:19 am
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I’m in the same boat as you Charisse. I can deal with the fuzzy head,
don’t know -I wish I had more courage and didn’t care so much about
the side effects but the potency of Lexapro really scares me so that’s
why I decided to try the Celexa again last night
sleepiness, etc., but the nausea, I want NO part of that. Terry
August 28th, 2005 at 10:55 am
Do you have a sensitive stomach Charisse? Do other meds or vitamins bother you?
Terry
August 28th, 2005 at 6:31 pm
Charisse…do you have Lexapro? Why don’t you try a 1/4 of that for a week and
see how it goes? maybe it won’t be so bad. Everything I’ve read about it, they
say it has much less side effects than the Celexa. Terry
August 28th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
Hi Terry. I would say I have a very sensitive stomach. I have
intolerance to about 27 different foods that they discovered through
blood testing last October. I knew I was feeling sick from more then
just emet so I looked up an alternative dr who helped me with the
allergy testing. I can take vitamins with food and it’s not an issue
. But cold medication can make me feel sick to my stomach. Most
antibiotics I’m okay with though so it’s hard to say if I’m that much
more sensitive then other people. All I know is that I won’t be taking
the Celexa again tonight. I’ve felt like crap all day. I took two
naps, laid around, had some slight nausea most of the day and now
finally I’m starting to feel better again. Unfortunately I think this
has scared me even more from the Lexapro. Love Charisse
August 29th, 2005 at 7:02 am
Terry I am not sure I believe that the Lexapro would have that much
less side effects and I’m scared to find out. My fear of Lexapro is
that it’s so much more potent. I took less than a 1/4 of a Celexa
which is not supposed to be as strong and I had such strong effects so
it seems to me that the Lexapro would make whatever effects I feel
worse. Is there anyone on this Board who has taken both Celexa and
Lexapro and thought Lexapro had less initial sides? Love Charisse
August 30th, 2005 at 4:44 pm
I don’t know much about Celexa, but I’ve had a lot of trouble with
anti-depressents making me sick. I finally tried Lexapro, and it’s
so much better. I have had some trouble sleeping, so I’m trying to
move my dose up earlier in the day little by little. I took 5 mg of
Lexapro for a week, and I’m moving it up to 7.5 now. I feel pretty
good. The most side effects are tiredness from the Klonipin I’m
having to use to sleep. I’m hoping to get off that as soon as I get
my dose up to 10 mg of the Lexapro and it stablizes.
Kathy
August 31st, 2005 at 9:27 pm
Lexapro is stronger than Celexa?
Vicky