Celexa and brain

Horrible headaches. Started with 10 mg went up to 30 after six weeks. Had a headache every day. Went to a neurologist MRI shows multiple white spots of the brain. Am cutting down the celexa am now down to 5 mg every other day. I will have to repeat MRI. Headaches are diminishing.

Just discontinued usage of Celexa for anti-anxiety treatment. Dr. is putting me on different meds due to the side effects I experienced. I was on 20mg, and it put my brain in a fog about 5 hours after taking it (not a good place to be for an engineer...). I mean I was just STONED for the next hour, staring into space! I tried to take 10mg, but it couldn't calm me down enough. Taking it at night didn't help either, still felt like I was on the ceiling the next day. Tried to take it every other day, but wound up really paranoid the days I didn't take it. It was like living in a Monty Python sketch where I felt like some giant foot was going to come stomp me into the ground at any minute.

I really need a med that will work quickly and effectively in the morning, and diminishes as the day goes on. Maybe I'll have better luck with something else, this one was too weak in the morning, too strong in the afternoon, withdrawal too terrifying. I didn't experience any other side effects.

I was attempting to wean my self off Celexa with Md. ok. I couldn't get off it! The feelings of electrical current abruptly would occur (I don't really know the words for how it felt) with movement.

I am again trying to cut my dosage little by little because when I was down to 10 mg and using SAME 200 - 1200 mg I was feeling better than ever! I had a sense of humor again and my creativity had returned.

Celexa has dull my personality but has help with the depressiona and brief bouts of anxiety. But S.A.M.E.was doing it also.

If you are giving it to your children DONOT abruptly take them off it because it is a horrible feeling and they won't be able to tell you what they are feeling. I am an adult and I can 't explain to my Md.

Taking 20mg per day for last 3 weeks for depression.
On the plus side.
Suicidal thoughts have gone and my brain has stopped racing. I don't feel up, but I don't feel down, I feel calm and level.
Side effects.
Body jerks when relaxed. No loss of sex drive but unable to ejaculate.
At the moment, I feel the side effects are worth putting up with because I feel so much better and I'm not making my wife and kids lifes a misery with my bad moods.

i have been on the medication for about 9 months..I have actually lost weight..as it seems to take away appetite. i was on a site for this medication and thought that i had read that it can cause suicidal tendencies..i was looking for some kind of confirmation of that side affect from a nolegible source, although it said that it was an uncommon one. I have felt that way recently..and although still have a portion of the brain thinking clearly was curious if this might be where the thoughts coming from. Never a thought ever before. It has been scary a couple of times

I was losing weight tremendously before the Celexa..I just couldn't eat. Now my mental state of being is much more calmer and I am more happier then ever. I enjoy the food more now since I feel more relieved and calmer to eat..I am not stressed nor do I lose sleep I have no problem with that..The only problem I had at the beginning was maintaing and erection but especially ejaculation it was just not happening but I gave the pill some time and everything became normal again.I believe if you put it in your head for a long period of time you tend to believe this will happen forever..My life is calmer I think more clearer now and if anything further happens I will be more then happy to add it here to the testimonies...I do though experience that same Jerky motion that solme have had and a bit tired at spurts..But I believe its letting my brain just take the nap it has so long needed

Since I have been on Celexa I have cravings for sweets. I have been the same weight all of my life 125-130 lbs. I have reciently went up to 150 lbs. It has been difficult to get the weight off.