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I've been taking Celexa for about 10 years now...in beginning it was 40mg and it took a good 3 weeks to totally be free of the horrible depression/panic/anxiety attacks that came on me like a flood. I was in bad shape when I finally found out what was wrong with me and I was a total basket case for a month before and 3 weeks after. When the drug took effect slowly I came out of this horrible funk. The side effects mostly were sleepiness, loss of sex drive and sensation like many here are experiencing. Gradually I tapered down to 20mg and now 10mg. I don't take it everyday but about every other day and just enough to keep some in my system so that if I nose dive again I up my dose and it doesn't take as long to feel normal. I don't handle trauma, stress or confrontations well and they have a tendency to make me switch into these nose dives. Celexa and dosage works for ME...I believe each one of us has different chemical structures which is why one pill doesn't work for all of us. I think high dosages tend to make you more "zombie" too. I've tried other types of anti depressants and always come back to Celexa because the side effects aren't anything like the others to me. So, please keep trying different meds to see whats good for YOU. If a doctor gives you a hard time, FIND ANOTHER! I suggest a Psychiatric one too. GP's and OB/GYN's aren't trained enough in this area to really know how to prescribe and help treat this and have a tendency to prescribe what they've been given freebies of. Not all Psych's are good either. Keep trying to find the right one please! I know, I've been there. Above all, pray....it helps. :)

Hi guys. I am so glad I found this site. I am 29 and I have been on Yasmin for four years. In the last few months I have toned up and shed a few pounds and all of a sudden last week I got home and felt a tightening in my legs that I had never felt before. Then a tingling in my left arm and I had trouble swallowing and breathing. I am a very healthy person so I freaked out and went to the ER for the first time in my life. After the blood work, EKG, MRI and stress test they told me I was normal, except for low potassium levels and mentioned that I should go to a neurologist. I also thought I must be allergic to something but all the foods I had been eating were the same as before. Well it happened again tonight so I went online because there was no way I was going to spend more money in the ER to have them tell me it was nothing. After reading all the comments on this page I realized it is amazing how many other symptoms that I didn't realize also correlated to the pill. My hair has been falling out at the root like never before and I just recently developed troubles with eating tomato based foods. I haven't been sleeping good lately either and I started crying uncontrollably for no reason. Well I am throwing away my Yasmin and I can't believe that the doctors in the ER aren't mentioning the side effects of this birth control.