Question: Hello. Can you help please? I had been taken Citalopram 20mg for the best part of 5 years for panic disorder and GAD. The anxiety got worse mid-June and my GP suggested I switched to Paroxetine. I took these for three weeks and had very strong side effects and so I went back to the GP three weeks later and we agreed that Paroxetine wasn’t for me. A CBT approach with medication was agreed as maybe being a better longterm approach. She suggested I take a week's supply of 10mg Citalopram to finish with. I have had no Citalopram for 28 days now. That was background information that might be relevant. At the same time as I started taking Pareoxetine in late XXXXXXX I started to experience a strange symptom which is difficult to describe. If I move my eyes, I have a disconcerting sensation that makes if feel like my heart has stopped for a few moments, accompanied by a split second of faintness in my head. If I move my eyes rapidly, it feels like my heart iis having a series of palpitations; it’s actually very unpleasant makes me nauseous. This has been happening every few minutes for over 8 weeks now and despite two visits to my GP (where they can’t understand or diagnose the issue), doesn’t seem to go away. It gets worse as the day goes on and by the evening I have a headache. Do you have any idea what this might be please? Any help gratefully received. Many thanks.

Thank you very much for your answer and advice.
My panic attacks were never as weird as this.
It is the feeling in the heart that worries me most.
So are these symptoms part of discontinuing Citalopram?
Many thanks