Celexa and sweets

nightmares
no sex drive
can't climax
weight gain
crave sweets and junk food
extremely tired
sleep all the time
sweat especially at night
in a fog/spacey
can't focus

been on Celexa for 3 months now. started at 20 mg now at 40
no more morning axaity, feel happy more often, but with all the side effects I don't think it's worth it. my doctor is now weaning me off it. going to try Wellbutrin next.

I have been on Celexa for a number of years and am taking 60 mg. My side effects keep get worse. I have trouble sleeping, I have horrible mood swings...lots of angry outburts, I have migraines, light and noise senistive, shaky, weight for sure. I have had a change in my sense of taste, I grind my teeth at night, I have no sex drive at all, blurry vision. I have dry eye and mout, skeletal pain, eye pain, hot flushes, edema, loss of balance craving for sweets and salty foods, more depressed than before b/c of all of the side effects and I am tired all of the time. I am only 35 years and I should be enjoying live instead I hide in my house away from the outside world.
L.B.

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.

Almost forgot....great snack for carb & sweets attack.is gummi bears/worms....also fat free at the same time :)

I was on celexa for a while (not anymore) and I had something related to the "tremors" and "jerking" that I think people are describing. I found out that what I was dealing with was akathisia. Akathisia is a condition where you can't stop moving and be comfortable at the same time. For me it was constant squirming and flexing my legs. If I wasn't doing either of these thing I felt strangely distressed and it took effort. When I came off the Celexa, the akathisia didn't go away. It is at least a year later at this point and it still affects me slightly. It was about 4 to 6 months before I felt comfortable when trying to go to sleep. My doctor said that beta-blockers might do the trick, but I never took that option for some reason.

Other than the akathisia, I took a very long time to orgasm. It often came to the point where my girlfriend would have to tell me to stop because she had climaxed so many times and couldn't go anymore. However, when I did orgasm it felt amazing and was incomparable to how it feels right now.

i have been on celexa or citalopram for 4 months god it seems longer then that lol. i havent gained but have lost weight im holding at 210lbs i take 20mg a day i have taken 40 mgs but it caused mood swings so i went back to 20 mgs and all is good im 42. as far as sex i have found i hold an erection for about an hour befor i can orgasam i have found that at 40mgs my erection will start to fall but come back.
this is weard because most males state theye cant hold one.
my mind set is a feeling of nothing matters im a happy person yet nothing bothers me. i tried to go off the med but after 3 days without it i was a very angry person i tapered off just like i started up so it wasent due to a sudden withdrawl. i just wasent ready i guess. and for those people who are giving this drug to childeren i advise you dont. there are just to many issues with this drug that havent been worked out and i really belive most doctors dont even read these posts from users. and therefor theye have no idea of the things we go through. theye have the mind set of if its not posted in the jeronal of med it dont count for crap. as far as no sleep for a long time ya it happens i dident sleep for 3 days when i first started on this drug i had a craving for sweets and im not really a big fan of sweets and is most likely why i am holding at the same weight because i dont give in i eat once a day and i eat fish and veggies or beef and veggies and alot of garlic i dont eat pork i love pork but its got to much fat for me
i cook most of my food in olive oil and no eggs and 1%milk if i use milk im not a milk drinker i just dont care for it. i havent been sick in over 10 years and cant remember my last cold i dont take flu shots. and i wont use penacillin. i hope iv helped someone i know iv added alot more info but it seems alot of people are gaining weight that puts them back into a state of depression so maybe by using my diet theye might be able to hold at a desired weight. ps when i say i eat lots of garlic im saying 4 cloves a day added to my cooking food olive oil i only use extra virgin i dont use margarin or lard or shortning
i remove all fat from meat and skin from chicken all veggies are fresh fish is salmon, mackarial,tuna,sardines i also drink 1 glass of red wine a day should be 8oz but its more like 16 lol
good luck everybody

I have been on Celexa for 2 yrs now i started out weighing 150 pounds and now i am up to 180 craving are mainly sweets!! has anybody eles have leg cramping on this medication?

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.