Does anyone take anti acids? I need one especially with aspirin. I’ve been taken off lanorazole because it affect’s clopedogrel and given pantotazole. What is safe? What do you take? The internet says there is still a risk. Helen
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Less but not completely. What do you think ‘?
I too take lansoprazole and am on clopidogrel. I don’t know how it affects clopidogrel but does help with my stomach.
The doctor said it was a problem. The internet too not the chemist said ok so I’m confused too
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I’d come off and take something less risky
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I feel a little update is needed on my tapering journey. It’s now, half way through week three of no SRRI. I had tapered down to 5mg, and then spent two weeks taking it on consecutive days. Over the last few days I have felt quite uplifted even with my present condition being what it may, but before that, for the past two weeks of not taking Citalopram I felt bleak. Apparently, it’s one of the easier SRRI meds to come off, because it has quite a long half life. I endured. There were one or two days I almost convinced myself to get back on it again. I wasn’t taking this medication for depression or general anxiety, I took it, specifically, for panic attacks. However, if I didn’t quite know what proper depression felt like, I certainly have had a taste of it now. I have a friend who has it acutely, and I described my feelings to him and he said, yes, that’s how I feel, and that’s why he is on Prozac. To give a sample of mood, I spent quite some time in bed with the curtains closed. I’m not talking a few hours, I am talking a few days. I went without food, maybe an apple a day (I know, I know) for about three days. By that point, I had to force myself to eat something, and with the help of a pint of stout, I managed down some soup. The whole idea of digestion was even too much for my mood to bear, everything was too much effort to even think about, so much so, that had I had been born with the same feeling, I would have turned to my parents and, in my best attempt at an advanced level of communication, said to them, sarcastically, ‘Thanks, thanks a lot …’ However, the night before last, something snapped in my head and I suddenly felt lighter. As if a weight had been lifted, a burden dislodged. My mood had shifted, dramatically, and it was an empirical shift. My symptoms that night weren’t anything to be comfortable with, this recent paraesthesia that shoots across my body, it’s not pleasant, but I even felt good about that. I felt, genuinely, relieved. I don’t want to speak too soon, because they do say it might take four to six weeks for everything to settle properly, but I will check in after that time and write a final memorandum and close the thread so others on this journey, or proposing to embark on the same can have a reference to my experience, and maybe it will help with theirs.
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@Rups Well done on tapering off your SSRI.
That’s a massive thing to do & certainly not easy. Sounds like you have turned a big corner & glad you’ve found a way through the depression without going back on the meds.
Hope it continues to go ok for the next few weeks.
Best wishes
Ann x
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That is such good news and so uplifting, it always gets to me emotionally when reading this kind of progress. Just enjoy each day as it comes whilst it all sorts itself out. And I hope it continues to improve long into the future 
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How are you faring now, Rups?
Please take good care of yourself.
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I’m okay, I’ve got a difficult situation to get through at the moment, my second eldest son (sixteen) has quite a rare cancer, and it doesn’t want to appease, so I am just going through the motions, day to day, step by step.
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I will keep you in my heart, friend.
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So very sorry to hear this, @Rups. I really do understand how difficult and scary this is for your son, for you and your family. My daughter was diagnosed with a rare cancer in her windpipe just after she turned 18. I’ll be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.
Trace x
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@Rups sorry to hear this & sending positive thoughts your way. Stay strong xx
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It feels that way sometimes, an existence plotted by Sophocles or Euripides, although, I’ve got to continually balance the books by counting my blessings.
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Diolch yn fawr. Somehow, I feel removed from my very existence, as if I am somewhere else, but still in scope of mortality, if that makes any sense.
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Diolch Trace, at first I thought that this was every parent’s worst nightmare, but now I just have to accept the facts and be as connected to him as I can until our circumstances change.
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Diolch yn fawr, I think I’m staying pretty grounded thus far, as long as I keep my emotions in check, I can float along with it all, and try not to resist.
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@Rups
I think it is every parents nightmare - I know it was mine. I had to face my worst fear but the upside is that I knew there was nothing that could ever hurt that much again.
Are you getting help from CLIC Sargent or The Teenage Cancer Trust? If not, the hospital should point you in the right direction. Take all the support you’re offered. It’s a rollercoaster ride, for sure, and your emotions will be all over the place. At the tender age of 16, your son is probably not as aware as you are of his true predicament which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But he’s going to have some horrible things done to him and he’ll probably put on a brave face but be terrified inside. He needs his mum and dad and family and friends but you know all this anyway.
Trace x
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I sympathise. I just found this post on anxiety attacks, I had never has one before but when I did a could hardly breath my family called 999 my pulse was racing I thought I was dying ….truly…they put me on ECG as I’ve a history of palpitations and they thought they saw a blip so I was taken to hospital underwent tests, all good then sent home, for you being a regular experience it must have been frightening, goodness knows what brought mine on. Looking back I was adjusting to being back home wasn’t easy for my family either caused stress at timesI
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