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I have been taking this for about a week now and it is making me feel so sick and I am getting tummy ache has anyone else had this with escitalopram? and does it eventually go?
I take is predocessor but still very widely used citalopram and this made me feel a little sick (not as much as the trial of depakote I had) and I found taking early in a morning and then sleeping for an hour helped. I now take it at night