Celexa is the DEVIL

LIP26 · 01-07-2012, 10:14 AM

this is on the Care forum for a reason. i may not actually know you but i don't want you to go thru what i did. Talk about your feelings to someone, dont rely on any drug to take your problems away --- (especially Celexa!)

point made

SCI-Nurse · 01-07-2012, 10:42 AM

Hello,

Would you like to share your experiences with this medication? (keeping in mind that medications are different in their effects on different people).

AAD

5th Wheel · 01-07-2012, 10:43 AM

Though not completely eradicated, I find my problems are, on occasion, mollified to a satisfactory extent with a generous application of beer! :0)

zevobru · 01-07-2012, 11:35 AM

Great comment LIP26. My son was at a rehab hospital. They put him on Celexa and Respidal. He laughed like a drunk , lost his ability to control his bladder, could not stand or transfer. His coordination went to hell, and his speech became slurred.So he could not continue rehab. After they screwed him up, they called 911 and said he was suicidal. So he ended up in a psych hospital.They just wanted him to be happy and he was....a big happy drunk in a wheelchair.

We had to wean him off the drugs when we took him home. It has taken over three months to get him back to were he was when he went to the rehab hospital. I'm sure they didn't want to screw him up. The doctors just wanted him to be happy. So your warning is right on.

LIP26 · 01-07-2012, 02:11 PM

i was taking it for 2.5 weeks...changed into a completely different person..happy, talkative, interesting, laughing/smiling to mean, angry, unsure, sad face, dependent on others. also from past accident i'm epileptic.
i jumped off a 3rd story balcony without even knowing what was happening. got myself into THIS situation. Due to the circumstances of the accident i was treated like a complete wacko in the hospital and given EVERY antipsychotic drug imaginable - which REALLY made me go nuts. THEY caused me to hallucinate tons of times. i had more seizures in the hospital cause they put me on an antiseizure drug my mom TOLD THEM i couldn't take.
After the first hospital I was sent to a Behavioral Health Unit at another...and my life became even more of a living nightmare for a month. I'm planning to write of my biography after i'm recovered - keep an eye out for "From the Inside Out"

there u go :0)

LIP26 · 01-07-2012, 02:15 PM

Resperdal drove me nuts...at the Behavioral Health Unit they started giving me Geodone (I've heard it the ultimate worst - per my neurologist). Before taking it more than twice i started spitting in out in a napkin (hiding it of course cause i was being watched (1 on 1) 24/7) and throwing it away. nobody knew...i have NO respect for anyone who calls themselves a nurse in those kind of places.

lynnifer · 01-07-2012, 03:24 PM

I take ratio-citalopram (which I think is a generic of Celexa) and it does wonders ... I only take half a pill every day though 10mg.

01-07-2012, 10:14 AM	#1
LIP26 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Central Florida Posts: 149	Celexa is the DEVIL this is on the Care forum for a reason. i may not actually know you but i don't want you to go thru what i did. Talk about your feelings to someone, dont rely on any drug to take your problems away --- (especially Celexa!) point made __________________ Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

01-07-2012, 02:11 PM	#5
LIP26 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Central Florida Posts: 149	i was taking it for 2.5 weeks...changed into a completely different person..happy, talkative, interesting, laughing/smiling to mean, angry, unsure, sad face, dependent on others. also from past accident i'm epileptic. i jumped off a 3rd story balcony without even knowing what was happening. got myself into THIS situation. Due to the circumstances of the accident i was treated like a complete wacko in the hospital and given EVERY antipsychotic drug imaginable - which REALLY made me go nuts. THEY caused me to hallucinate tons of times. i had more seizures in the hospital cause they put me on an antiseizure drug my mom TOLD THEM i couldn't take. After the first hospital I was sent to a Behavioral Health Unit at another...and my life became even more of a living nightmare for a month. I'm planning to write of my biography after i'm recovered - keep an eye out for "From the Inside Out" there u go :0) __________________ Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

01-07-2012, 02:15 PM	#6
LIP26 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Central Florida Posts: 149	Resperdal drove me nuts...at the Behavioral Health Unit they started giving me Geodone (I've heard it the ultimate worst - per my neurologist). Before taking it more than twice i started spitting in out in a napkin (hiding it of course cause i was being watched (1 on 1) 24/7) and throwing it away. nobody knew...i have NO respect for anyone who calls themselves a nurse in those kind of places. __________________ Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

01-07-2012, 03:24 PM	#7
lynnifer Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Windsor ON Canada Posts: 15,441	I take ratio-citalopram (which I think is a generic of Celexa) and it does wonders ... I only take half a pill every day though 10mg. __________________ I think over again my small adventures, My fears, Those small ones that seemed so big, For all the vital things I had to get and to reach; And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing, To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world. Anonymous (Inuit, 19th century) T-11 Flaccid Paraplegic due to TM July 1985 @ age 12

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01-07-2012, 10:42 AM	#2
SCI-Nurse Moderator Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: USA Posts: 41,515	Hello, Would you like to share your experiences with this medication? (keeping in mind that medications are different in their effects on different people). AAD

01-07-2012, 10:43 AM	#3
5th Wheel Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Michigan Posts: 372	Though not completely eradicated, I find my problems are, on occasion, mollified to a satisfactory extent with a generous application of beer! :0)

01-07-2012, 11:35 AM	#4
zevobru Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 91	Great comment LIP26. My son was at a rehab hospital. They put him on Celexa and Respidal. He laughed like a drunk , lost his ability to control his bladder, could not stand or transfer. His coordination went to hell, and his speech became slurred.So he could not continue rehab. After they screwed him up, they called 911 and said he was suicidal. So he ended up in a psych hospital.They just wanted him to be happy and he was....a big happy drunk in a wheelchair. We had to wean him off the drugs when we took him home. It has taken over three months to get him back to were he was when he went to the rehab hospital. I'm sure they didn't want to screw him up. The doctors just wanted him to be happy. So your warning is right on.