Citalopram 20 mg

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Cardsfan
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Citalopram 20 mg

Post by Cardsfan » Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:48 am

Can this make my clear airway events increase, or is it just a coincidence? I've been on it for 3 days, and normally my CA events are about .8 per hr., and they have gone up to 2 or 3 per hr.
Thanks.

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Re: Citalopram 20 mg

Post by Pugsy » Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:20 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citalopram

Google "SSRIs and sleep" and start reading. I doubt the centrals are real asleep centrals but instead they are byproducts of the side effects of sleep quality being less than ideal.

All those type of medications are well known to mess with sleep stages/architecture. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

If you do the zoom in thing and look for evidence of arousals or awakenings right before the flagging you will probably find that most of the centrals aren't real...meaning you aren't really asleep when they happen.

Last video especially
http://freecpapadvice.com/sleepyhead-free-software

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Re: Citalopram 20 mg

Post by Cardsfan » Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:09 am

Thanks you for the help.

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