I'm recently stopped taking Celexa and feel like **** - please tell me it's going to get better!!

[Limonada]

I was taking Celexa for a year due to health anxiety and grief issues.  I was on 20mg/day.  My doctor recently weaned me off at my request - my husband and I want to try to conceive again soon and I'd rather be "clean" for this, if possible....plus I've been in therapy and dealing with my problems and feeling great!  He had me go down to 10 mg/day for a week and then stop completely.

I felt ok until after it had been 24 hours since I took my last dose - and then the dizziness and fogginess started.  I'm also pretty irritable and just feeling like garbage overall. I had my last dose on Wednesday.....How long can I expect to feel off?  I've read the literature about the drug having a half-life of 35 hours and it taking about 7-8 days for the meds to be completely out of the system.....but does anyone have any experience with this?  How did you cope??

Thanks :-)

[bosnianworrier]

When I weaned off celexa, I reduced to 10 mg/day for 1 week then 5mg/day for 1 week and then 5 mg every second day for about a week.

Worked excellent.

[Pum]

Not exactly the same drug but I have stopped paxil twice and both times the first few days were the worst and after a week everything was fine. I had vivid dreams/nightmares and odd visual effects (particularly weird around glass doors).

Good luck with your family plans. Try to ignore any withdrawl symptoms by keeping busy and thinking about your long term happiness when you have your new baby.

Take care.