Hi, this is my experience of taking 40mg of Citalopram (SSRI antidepressant) , I was wondered if anyone had any experience with this or could offer any advice.
Just a little background about myself. I'm a 21 year old male, average height/build. I've been taking drugs recreationally for a few years now, the only thing I do regularly now is smoke pot and have been doing so for a few years. I did a fair amount of MDMA a few years ago, up to the point where I wasn't getting the euphoria from it (not sure if this might be relevant as this drug works on effecting serotonin uptake). Recently the only other thing I've been taking is tramadol, just 2 occasionally like once a week. Tramadol can interact with ssri's but its supposed to increase risk of seizures or something and I hadn't done any for a good 5 days before doing the SSRI's
Anyway 3 days ago my friend got prescribed 20mg pills of aforementioned drug with the instructed dose of one every day. I'm not suffering from any kind of depression but though it couldn't hurt to see what they were like. I also made the stupid decision to take 2 of them so that the effects wouldn't be vague in any way. I've only tried tramadol and vallium in the past for perscription drug but doing several times the recommended dose was more than fine.
I'd been smoking pot all day with my friend and we tried the pills at 5pm. I hadn't really eaten much at this point. 45 minutes later and I'm about to smoke a bong when the pills kick in, I start rushing quite a lot but I'm in the process of lighting up and go ahead and do so. I think I settled down a bit at this point and we play some computer games, I'm feeling more mashed than usual though. About 20 minutes later the rushing comes back, it's like coming up on MDMA except the buzz is a little bit harsher like the harsh buzz when you mix conflicting drugs together.
I come up so hard that I throw up, exactly the same as when you do far too much MDMA at once but this had only happened to me a couple of times despite the large amounts I've done in the past. Very violent stomach contraction but when It's over I start feeling much better, still buzzing but very controllable and almost comfortable. It doesn't last though and about 10-15m later exactly the same thing happens and I come up far too hard and my stomach goes back into spasms. This happened about 4/5 times, then I wasn't getting quite so high with the rushes and was able to avoid throwing up from this point on as it was getting painful. I wasn't able to smoke any pot after the bong I mentioned as I was so ill.
I spent the rest of the day in a hot room, fully clothed sitting on a couch under a duvet. I couldn't do or concentrate on anything. I was going through hot and cold patches, hot being i'd have to lift my duvet off me a bit but would then get shivery straight away. Sometimes I'd be rushing a lot other times not so much, sometimes it was a pretty warm comfortable buzz other times cold and harsh. I was a complete mess. I would also drift into a very weak sleep occasionally then wake up straight away buzzing.
I managed to sleep many hours later but work up buzzing and ill next morning. In the subsequent days I've been well enough to smoke pot and that seems to counter the effects although 40m later when the pot wares off I start to get rushy and cold again. I'll point out that normally I can stop smoking for a couple of hours without cravings and only start feeling the minor withdrawal effects after many hours
It's now day 4 and it's definitely wearing off but since day 2 its been very slow, I was just wondering if anyone else has any experience with this and when i might be feeling normal again
Thanks for your time
PS: should probably mention my friend's been taking them and has been fine, he did one a day then started doing half, only side effects being yawning/dry mouth and being a bit more mashed when smoking
Just a little background about myself. I'm a 21 year old male, average height/build. I've been taking drugs recreationally for a few years now, the only thing I do regularly now is smoke pot and have been doing so for a few years. I did a fair amount of MDMA a few years ago, up to the point where I wasn't getting the euphoria from it (not sure if this might be relevant as this drug works on effecting serotonin uptake). Recently the only other thing I've been taking is tramadol, just 2 occasionally like once a week. Tramadol can interact with ssri's but its supposed to increase risk of seizures or something and I hadn't done any for a good 5 days before doing the SSRI's
Anyway 3 days ago my friend got prescribed 20mg pills of aforementioned drug with the instructed dose of one every day. I'm not suffering from any kind of depression but though it couldn't hurt to see what they were like. I also made the stupid decision to take 2 of them so that the effects wouldn't be vague in any way. I've only tried tramadol and vallium in the past for perscription drug but doing several times the recommended dose was more than fine.
I'd been smoking pot all day with my friend and we tried the pills at 5pm. I hadn't really eaten much at this point. 45 minutes later and I'm about to smoke a bong when the pills kick in, I start rushing quite a lot but I'm in the process of lighting up and go ahead and do so. I think I settled down a bit at this point and we play some computer games, I'm feeling more mashed than usual though. About 20 minutes later the rushing comes back, it's like coming up on MDMA except the buzz is a little bit harsher like the harsh buzz when you mix conflicting drugs together.
I come up so hard that I throw up, exactly the same as when you do far too much MDMA at once but this had only happened to me a couple of times despite the large amounts I've done in the past. Very violent stomach contraction but when It's over I start feeling much better, still buzzing but very controllable and almost comfortable. It doesn't last though and about 10-15m later exactly the same thing happens and I come up far too hard and my stomach goes back into spasms. This happened about 4/5 times, then I wasn't getting quite so high with the rushes and was able to avoid throwing up from this point on as it was getting painful. I wasn't able to smoke any pot after the bong I mentioned as I was so ill.
I spent the rest of the day in a hot room, fully clothed sitting on a couch under a duvet. I couldn't do or concentrate on anything. I was going through hot and cold patches, hot being i'd have to lift my duvet off me a bit but would then get shivery straight away. Sometimes I'd be rushing a lot other times not so much, sometimes it was a pretty warm comfortable buzz other times cold and harsh. I was a complete mess. I would also drift into a very weak sleep occasionally then wake up straight away buzzing.
I managed to sleep many hours later but work up buzzing and ill next morning. In the subsequent days I've been well enough to smoke pot and that seems to counter the effects although 40m later when the pot wares off I start to get rushy and cold again. I'll point out that normally I can stop smoking for a couple of hours without cravings and only start feeling the minor withdrawal effects after many hours
It's now day 4 and it's definitely wearing off but since day 2 its been very slow, I was just wondering if anyone else has any experience with this and when i might be feeling normal again
Thanks for your time
PS: should probably mention my friend's been taking them and has been fine, he did one a day then started doing half, only side effects being yawning/dry mouth and being a bit more mashed when smoking
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