Antidepressent citalopram and jaw clenching?????

The SSRIs e.g. citalopram are associated with various movement disorders including jaw clenching and teeth grinding.

Some people have gone to their dentist, who has had a look in their mouth and asked 'Are you on an SSRI antidepressant?'

It's a side-effect to speak to your doctor about - lots of healthy volunteers experienced it in the trials, so hopefully you'll not be told it's anxiety.

"It can be noted at this point, that company healthy volunteer work on the SSRI drugs demonstrates a consistent 50% rate of jaw dystonias and dyskinesias during early weeks of exposure..." Healy "SSRIs and Withdrawal/Dependence" Briefing paper June 2003. (link below)

Any google search on terms like: Celexa (or citalopram) sore jaw help; citalopram jaw clenching; celexa grinding teeth help; bruxism SSRIs; citalopram jaw pain etc should bring up reading matter/others' experiences.

The info leaflet that came withe medicine should contain advise on what to do if a patient experiences muscle stiffness or twitching.

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I have gotten all kinds of reactions from meds. You should contact your doctor and he/she can give you something to stop that clenching. You will feel a lot better once you are taking that with the citalopram.

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I actually have seen that quite a bit with antidepressants, see a dentist to place a night guard on you or change the meds, hope this helps.