Hi forever hopeful, thanks for asking! After the first few days I did start to feel a lot of side effects, and I haven't felt much like writing since then. Most of the classic ones like sweats, stomach upset, loss of appetite, drowsiness, the runs. But the worst was some really bad anxiety for a few days in the first week. It was pretty bad and I was very worried about the whole thing but I had read a lot of similar things with others so I knew these should pass.

When I started my 20mg last Monday it really knocked me out, I take it in the mornings but was usually passed out within an hour or so. Then I'd feel better in the late afternoons and evenings although still a little spaced out. Thankfully I haven't had much nausea and vomiting a lot as some do, I'm happy about that!

Reading threads about all this, it seems that things do get a little worse before they get better for some people, but over the week I feel like things are improving. It seems to take many around three to four weeks to get over the symptoms and start to feel better, even then, it can take a few months to really feel like one's old self again, so I'm just holding on and waiting it out.

The worst was the anxiety and that seems to be falling off constantly since the first week, that is a big relief for me. I haven't felt so depressed which I'm happy about, but more apprehensive over the outcome since in many ways I do feel worse than before I started, more on the anxiety side, don't want to go out anywhere or do anything but it will be worth it if I can get back to some kind of reasonable life in the end.

I should stress that not everyone gets these side effects, many don't but you don't see many posts from them. I found a great thread on a British site, it's for Celexa but that is very close and it's good to see people who have struggled slowly get better over the weeks and move on. I'll post the link separately in case it causes my reply to get messed up!

Thanks for the nudge to get me to update, and I definitely am doing better than in previous days!