I too am having shortness of breath. It started when I started taking Celexa I told my doctor and he said he never heard of that as a side affect. So he upped my dose then it got worse along with chest pain I went to the ER and what do you know it is a side affect. I am slowly tappering off Celexa but the shortness of breath is horrible. Also very scary. Does anyone else know how long this will go on for?
Yeah I came off zoloft about a year and a half ago and it was not even close to being this bad! And I was on the zoloft for 2 years! I have only been on the celexa for 6 months!
I am stopping it because I only take it for anxiety and I am trying to start handling the anxiety on my own. Also my husband and I are going to try and get prego in the next year (already have a 4 year old) so I just wanted to go ahead and try to get off it. I take such a low dose I thought it would be easy. Guess I was wrong!!!
Can I ask why you want off the med?
Celexa withdrawals are terrible.
Any reason you're going off Celexa? If you call your Dr, they can usually ease you off of it slowly or gradually reduce it while taking a low dose of zoloft or something else. You need to go very slowly obviously.
Does not take long before my anxiety takes over...I took 2.5 mg of my celexa. Gosh I just want off this stuff!!!!! I guess I could try to take it every other day until I can stop. I am just so mad about this...when I stopped I told myself that was it and I would get through the withdrawls. O well....