Ringing in ears, muscle twitching, involuntary muscle jerking, and crackle in neck.

[John1413]

Three months ago I was diagnosed with anxiety. During those three months I have been on three different antidepressants (Poraxetine, Zoloft, and Citalopram). Presently, I am on citalopram 10 mil. I started out on the 20 mil but my body could not take it, my anxiety increased ten fold. I was put on the 10 mil for 7 to 10 days and then tried the 20 mil. But again the anxiety increased, and I had muscle twitching and involuntary muscle jerking while seated and in bed at night. I also have this continuous ringing in my ears and my neck crackles (nerves) all the time. My back aches and my joints sometimes ache. I have been having these symptoms since I started with the poraxetine in late March. I have told the psychiatrist about these symptoms but she says it is from my anxiety. Do you think I need a neurology test.              

[kennvido]

NO, YOUR ANXIETY AND DEPESSION IS PROB CAUSING ALL OF IT... YOU THINKING IS SCREWING YOU UP...I HAVE BEEN THERE...YOU CAN DO THIS AND BEAT IT..GO READ SOME OF MY OTHER POSTING IN THIS ANXIETY COMMUNITY SO I DON'T REPEAT MYSELF... GOD SPEED MY FRIEND...

John 14:13 (New International Version)
13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.

You get you name on purpose or is this just luck?

[Paxiled]

If you didn't have these symptoms before you started on the meds, then it could be several things.  First, that's a lot of switching around in a short amount of time, a lot for your body to process.  Second, antidepressants tend to interfere with the absorption of magnesium, which is responsible for relaxing your muscles.  Muscle cramps, for example, are a common side effect of antidepressants.  So you might try taking a magnesium citrate supplement and see if it helps.  Keep in mind it usually takes four to six weeks to tell if an antidepressant is going to work, and which side effects you are going to live with and which are just part of getting used to the med.  It's also a good idea to build up the dosage slowly to the therapeutic dose so you can gauge how you're responding and let the body slowly adjust to the med.  With citalopram, muscle and jaw clenching are common, but it can happen with any of these meds.  When my psychiatrist put me on that med she started with 5mg, then moved to 10, then 15, then 20, and it took a while to get there.  Perhaps for you you're just moving too quickly, but some people do take a while to find a med that works for them.