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[elguapo]

I take 5mg of citalopram daily and I have pretty bad nausea. Just feel manky all day long. I can't take more than 5mg and I take it at nigt to minimise the effect but even so it's pretty bad. It helps with my anxiety so in balance it's better than taking nothing but even so it's rough. Any suggestions to help with this? i have tried other SSAMs and they're all either much the same or worse.
Red Bull first thing in the morning seem to help a bit

[ellemint]

I feel a bit nauseous on citalopram also. I would try some ginger. Either ginger tea. Or there are these candies, kind of like ginger chews that are really good---some grocery stores and many health food stores carry them. Also there are often sugared dried ginger slices at grocery stores in the same section that usually has dried fruits like apricot or pineapple etc. That should help with the nausea. I need to do that myself. Usually I just put up with it. I find coffee makes it worse.

:)

[elguapo]

Great. An excuse to eat ginger biscuits. At least there's an u[pside to this then. I'll give it a go

[Tim 52]

elguapo: hope the ginger helps. How long have you been on the citalopram? Sometimes the nausea goes away after being on the med for awhile

[elguapo]

Seems like I've been on it forever but this time around it's about 6 months so far. It's marginally better than when I started but really the nausea is still pretty bad. In a way it's a good thing because it's reminding me that I'm taking something pretty toxic so I should only take it as long as it helps me

[Tim 52]

elguapo:

When an anti-depressant works well for someone there is often a fairly positive response with manageable side effects. I hope that for you. You deserve to feel better.

I wonder if it is time to see if there is another medicine for you that will have a better anti-depressant response and less nausea.

when is your next appointment with your prescriber? You, of course, need to talk with a health professional, but there are many, many medicines and med combos and several different classes of such meds.

Wishing you the best

[elguapo]

I've discussed this before with my GP but they will only change the dose they won't give me anything else. They claim that the different medications all have the same effect so there's no pint in changing. To be fair I have used duifferent things in the past and they have all had the same sort of effects and certainly with no less intensity

[wendynu]

I just went from 5 mg of generic Celexa to 10 mg and I've been quite nauseated in the mornings myself too. I hope that goes away. The 5 mg didn't seem to bother me like the 10 is.

[ellemint]

An easy way to get the ginger is also via Gravol Natural Source Ginger tablets --- each tablet contains 500 mg of dried ginger root. That is all they contain, so they wouldn't make you drowsy.