From Nortriptyline to Citalopram
No, this is not a travel report, haha. Slightly less airy: My experiences with Nortriptyline/Nortrilen (brand name) and with another antidepressants, Citalopram. And certainly so important; how did the transition from one means to another go?
Nortriptyline
After having had many types of anti-depressants, a.o. Fluoxetine /Prozac (brand name) and Venlafaxine /Efexor (brand name), I got an older remedy in 2014, namely Nortriptyline. At that time I was severely depressed and only a cocktail of horse remedies had some effect on me. With this drug you need to build up a mirror. My dosage was 100mg. /day. It's already an older drug and it seemed to help a little. Of course, every drug has side effects, as well as these. Over the years I've been scratched up a bit and what really started to be a very nasty side effect is the sweating. I wrote about that laterally before. At one point the sweat (a.o) gushed from my forehead, while I was just smearing bread, walking the dog or even in the barberchair. I wanted from here, of course.
Although switching to another remedy can cause severe reactions and withdrawal symptoms, I decided to take the step. There are serious risks to this, so always do this in consultation with your doctor or specialist! Suicidal thoughts and tendencies can occur when anti-depressants are set up and down, and I have experienced it in the flesh. This drug needs to be phased out step by step, and in the meantime you should not build up the other, they should not be combined. My blood level of the substance in question began to decrease and besides the mentioned (extreme) withdrawal symptoms, I also began to notice that I was sweating much less. Yeah, I could really do something physically again without having a laundry basket full of wet sweatcloth.
In principle, I was afraid of a long suffering but that was not easy. The disassembly was fast and the building of the Citalopram almost instantly gives some effect. The rebounding/rebound symptoms concerning the Nortryptiline were with me:
Suicidal Thoughts
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