Third Week Switching from Paxil CR to Celexa
I am now taking 60 mg of Celexa and only 25 mg of Paxil CR. I am doing fine except I was drowsy the first few mornings of taking the 3rd Celexa for the first time. The psychiatrist told me to cut the morning pill in half and add it to the night dose. He always tells me to spread out the anti-anxiety medication into 3 doses a day. I think some doctors tell people to take it all at once. What does your doctor tell you to do?
Celexa vs Paxil CR for anxiety and depression
So this is my second week of switching from the Paxil CR to Celexa. So far so good. I actually think I am feeling better than usual. The kind of better where I find myself thinking on a Sunday night, “I like my life.” Even though I am going back to work on Monday after a totally rained out weekend. That is the kind of feeling good that FEELS GOOD.
Switching to Celexa
GlaxoSmithKline never answered my email about the availability of Paxil CR (Read post “Paxil CR will be unavailable“). I saw my psychiatrist this week and told him I don’t want to go back to regular Paxil because that was making me drowsy in the end of my using it which is why we switched to the CR. So he is weaning me off the Paxil CR and onto Celexa. He said the Paxil CR can be hard to get off of.
I asked him what can I expect and he was reluctant to give me signs and symptoms of the …