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Reviewer: 45-54 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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Reviewer: clcare13, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I am only on this medication for 1 month. Once I can drag myself out of bed & shower, I feel in a much better mood (not crying all the time, etc). HOWEVER...I am SO exhausted! I am optimistic & really hope this symptom is temporary. If I have the day off of work, I can almost sleep 15 hrs or more! Not good; I want to get out of that slump of sleeping all the time like before. I curre
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Reviewer: DeborahKate, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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I was given this generic, actually two generics (both new to me) were mixed in one prescription container. I had been doing fine on another citalopram generic and am again now. But for the month of April I went from not crying at all while on the meds (a trade off I accepted) to crying every day and feeling extremely depressed. It was as if I was taking nothing at all.
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Reviewer: Loreen, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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For me, citalopram has been amazing. I wish I would have started taking it 15 years earlier. It's hard to imagine life now without it. It was prescribed to me after I had a heart attack, but it seems to work as much on anxiety as depression.
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Reviewer: crazy63, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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helps with depression, then it no longer works. experience stiffening of legs and 1 leg jumps
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