[ShadowTigress]

I've been on Celexa for migraine prevention since I was around fifteen. For the past five months or so, I've been getting migraines almost every day (seriously, I'm recording them and the average is one every 1.3 days). The doctor just put me on Topamax to try to prevent them, and although the Topamax has not started working yet, I stopped the Celexa since it was obviously not doing anything and could actually be causing migraines or interacting with the migraine abortive medications, which I am now taking about every day.

I was on 10mg of Celexa, and reduced it to 5mg for about a week. I had no withdrawal symptoms at that point, so I stopped it. But ever since then, I've had sleep paralysis, insomnia, major depression, and dizziness. The only thing that is letting up is the dizziness - everything else is getting worse. I am also extremely irritable, but that is a side effect of the Topamax and I don't believe I can attribute that to the Celexa. It has been fourteen days since I stopped the 5mg of Celexa. I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience with stopping Celexa, and how long the side effects lasted.

By the way, sleep paralysis is a condition where your body stays in REM sleep and your mind starts to separate and come awake; you become partially aware of your surroundings. You are aware that you are paralyzed (your body is always paralyzed in REM sleep), you are aware that you are asleep and dreaming, and I always have nightmares while in sleep paralysis. I have had a history of sleep paralysis ever since I can remember, but I mean like three or four times a year. Since stopping the Celexa, I've had it a half dozen times.

The depression is really bad; I was not prescribed Celexa for depression, so it must be from the withdrawal effects. Basically I'm crying everyday, but there's not really a reason in my life for it except the headaches everyday, and I wasn't that bad before stopping the Celexa.