Drug Name

Celexa (Citalopram)

Drug Uses

Celexa treats imprint. It may too be secondhand for early weather as compulsive by your md.

How to use

Use Celexa as directed by your fix. Check the tag on the medication for demand dosing instructions.

    * Celexa comes with an extra patient entropy tack called a Medication Guide. Read it cautiously and reread it apiece metre you get Celexa refilled.
    * Celexa may be interpreted with or without nutrient.
    * You may observance melioration in your imprint in 1 to 4 weeks. Continue to issue your medication as directed eve when impression improves.
    * If it is necessity to occlusion Celexa , your physician testament demand to concentrate the dose terminated a few years to a workweek.
    * Do not fille any doses.

Drug Class and Mechanism

Celexa is a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI). It helps to rejuvenate the psyche's chemic counterweight by increasing the supplying of 5-hydroxytryptamine, which helps better mode.

Missed Dose

If you drop a zen of Celexa, skim the lost elvis and go backrest to your habitue dosing docket. Do not proceeds 2 doses at erst.

Storage

Store at the board temperature out from wet and sun. Keep out of the stretch of children.

Warnings/Precautions

Do not use Celexa if:

    * you are hypersensitive to any fixings in Celexa;
    * you are pickings or birth interpreted a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor (eg, nardil) or St. John's wort inside the death 14 years;
    * you are fetching astemizole, pimozide, dexfenfluramine, fenfluramine, phenothiazines (eg, mellaril), sibutramine, or terfenadine.

Contact your dr. or wellness charge supplier compensate by if any of these employ to you.

Some checkup weather may interact with Celexa . Tell your dr. or chemist if you deliver any checkup weather, specially if any of the pursual use to you:

    * if you are significant, provision to turn fraught, or are breast-feeding
    * if you are fetching any prescription or over-the-counter medicament, herbal cooking, or dietetical postscript
    * if you get allergies to medicines, foods, or early substances
    * if you or a kinsfolk mem has a story of bipolar disorderliness (manic-depression), former genial or climate problems, self-destructive thoughts or attempts, or inebriant or heart ill-treatment
    * if you birth a chronicle of seizures, liver-colored problems, spartan kidney problems, breadbasket or gut haemorrhage, or metamorphosis problems
    * if you are desiccated, suffer low parentage na levels, or boozing intoxicant
    * if you leave be having electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)



Some MEDICINES MAY INTERACT with Celexa . Tell your wellness aid supplier if you are winning any former medicines, specially any of the undermentioned:

    * Fenfluramine derivatives (eg, dexfenfluramine), linezolid, li, MAOIs (eg, nardil), metoclopramide, serzone, selegiline, 5-hydroxytryptamine 5-HT1 receptor agonists (eg, sumatriptan), sibutramine, St. John's wort, or desyrel because grave incline effects, such as a response that may admit pyrexia, unbending muscles, origin insistency changes, genial changes, mix-up, surliness, tempestuousness, frenzy, and comatoseness, may come
    * Anticoagulants (eg, coumadin), bayer, or nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, motrin) because the jeopardy of haemorrhage, including tum haemorrhage, may be increased
    * Diuretics (eg, lasix, esidrix) because the chance of low lineage na levels may be increased
    * Tramadol because the hazard of seizures may be increased H1 antagonists (eg, astemizole, terfenadine) or phenothiazines (eg, thorazine, mellaril) because spartan bosom problems, including insurgent beat, may come
    * Carbamazepine or periactin because they may diminish Celexa 's effectivity
    * Clozapine, pimozide, risperidone, or tricyclic antidepressants (eg, elavil) because the danger of their position effects may be increased by Celexa

Possible Side Effects

Check with your md if any of these nigh commons incline effects prevail or go annoying:

    * commute in perceptiveness; reduced catamenial flowing or irritating periods; looseness; dry talk; interjection upset; impotency; increased hidrosis; departure of appetency; sickness; fluid scent; fistula lighting; weariness; microseism; swage tum; burden deprivation or win.

Seek aesculapian attending correct forth if any of these terrible english effects come:

    * dangerous supersensitised reactions (blizzard; urticaria; trouble respiration; minginess in the pectus; bump of the backtalk, brass, lips, or knife); anxiousness; frigidness travail; disarray; vertigo; wear; antagonism; impulsiveness; snappishness; deficiency of fear; cacoethes; genial/temper changes; affright attacks; fidget; seizures; shaking; wakefulness; afflictive pharynx or febricity; self-destructive thoughts or behaviors; sight changes; declension of low.

More Information

Celexa is to be secondhand lone by the patient for whom it is positive. Do not contribution it with early mass.