Anti-anti-depressants?

What do you guys think about using anti-depressants to relieve symptoms? Personally, I despise the idea of taking citalopram (Celexa) every day. From my research, anti-depressants just create a cycle that leads right back to the problem you are being treated for. Since I have not yet received any diagnosis, my doctor is convinced it is all anxiety. She prescribed me Citalpram back in May 2014. At that time, I was having electrical jolts and vibrations going through my body in the middle of the night almost every night which caused me to have rapid heartbeat and palpitations. While this does seem like typical panic attack symptoms it still didn’t explain all the other things that were going on in my body. Because I live alone, it was really hard because I thought something more serious was going on. For weeks I was getting little to no sleep which made things worse. I developed this fear of sleeping in my bed because it reminded me of the terrible things that were happening during the night. I would sleep on the couch most nights or wherever I felt comfortable. It freaked me out but after a while I learned to be calm when these things happened. This was before I had any MRI so I was very concerned I had MS because my dad is “clinically” diagnosed with having MS. The panic attacks never completely went away on their own but I did learn not to get too freaked out by it. Of course, my doctor praised her magic little pills for my improvement. But when I asked her “what about the chronic dizziness, visual disturbances, muscle twitching and strange sensations in my arms and legs?” she brushed it off as all anxiety and said I just need to keep taking the pills. I really want to stop taking these pills because I’m convinced that some mystery illness/deficiency is causing all this. I have never had any anxiety or major medical problems in my whole life. This time last year I was in Colorado doing 18 miles of backpacking through Maroon Bells and now I feel like a whiny hypochondriac. Have any of you guys had any experience with taking anti-depressants before or after you were diagnosed? I would love to stop taking these pills but my doc says I shouldn’t stop. I tried taking them every other day for a week and didn’t notice any difference.

My doctor put me on Celexa when Ambien stopped working last year. It really helped my sleep then. But now I'm back to nothing working. I'm still taking Celexa.

That sounds like a good plan. No need to cause yourself extra issues! I hope that you can get in to see a LLMD quickly.

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I used their stuff as a crutch to get through the worst. It was a very good crutch and I highly recommend it!