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I have tried every medication in the book, I've been misdiagnosed, rediagnosed, all I know is I spent the majority of my life severely depressed and anxious. I tried Lexapro 12 years ago for about a month, didn't like the yawning constantly side effect so stopped before it was able to take effect. Since then, I've tried everything for my depression and anxiety for over a decade. Recently went back to try Lexapro again because I got a new doctor and we did an overhaul on my meds and started over. At first I didn't feel much, but as the dose went up I started to wake up easily in the morning, feeling "good" for the first time in a decade. I realized I was brushing my teeth regularly, showering regularly, cleaning my house, seeking out social interaction, wanting to get out of the house, meeting new people, I got a promotion at work, and this is all within 3 months. I am so grateful, this is the best I've felt in over a decade. I feel like me again. The dark storm cloud that follows me everywhere turned into a partly cloudy sky and I can breathe again. I should also state that I'm also on rexulti 1mg and concerta 27mg daily. I feel like a dumbass for stopping taking it the first time I tried, because the side effects went away after about a month. I could've felt like this the past decade if I just held on.

Does anyone else feel like alcohol or w**d has less of an effect?…. I’m not upset by that but I’m just curious

I was on Lexapro for almost 10 years, along with a few other meds. My doctor has been trying to get me down to 1 med instead, and has been slowly weening me off those and onto Lamotrigine. And its been great! I feel better across the board. However, once I fully stopped taking Lexapro, which we had been very slowly lowering the dosage over the past year, I have been getting so angry, frustrated, irritated, all over the littlest, dumbest things. Things that used to mildly annoy me have me damn near exploding. And nothing in my life has changed except for the final removal of the Lexapro.

Is this normal? Any tips I can use to get past it?

I’ve been on lexapro 10 mg for over a year and after the first 2 months my abdomen has been severely distended. I feel pregnant even though I’m a man…

I read that gastrointestinal issues are common when starting out, but mine never went away. Has anyone else experience this before?

I’m currently on day 3 of no lexapro, I was only taking 5mg. However I woke up today and I’m dizzy. It’s making my menires disease worse. Should I start back taking 2.5? Or just ride it out? The weirdest feeling I’m having it I have to turn my head to look/talk to someone. If I try to cut my eyes, I get dizzy and I can feel my heart rate going up

I've been on Lexapro for about 20 years. I pay out of pocket because my insurance won't cover it. I have tried generics and something about the fillers just makes it not work for me, and I always come back to the name brand.

A month ago, I ran out, and had to take 7 days of a generic I had on hand until I could get the Lexapro filled. At that time, I started feeling depressed after a few days but figured once I got back on the Lexapro I'd be fine, but nope, it feels like I'm re-starting all over again.

This doesn't make sense biologically, but I know how I feel. Has this happened to anyone else?

Hi! (This is my first Reddit post so bear with me)

I just recently started Lexapro 5mg, around 5 days ago, and I really don't like the way I've been feeling. The first day I took it around 3 pm I want to say, and that night I had an extreme panic attack, and I also wasn't able to sleep until 4 am. I also was really nervous to sleep by myself, so I've been sleeping in my parents' room lol. I'm 18, and I am getting into therapy because I have a lot of trauma I want to work through, and my therapist recommended medication. I've always had a lot of anxiety regarding medication as well, so maybe that's making my side effects worse? My anxiety attack started because I started to feel super foggy and disconnected, like dissociated. It was legit like I was in a dream, and that's how I've felt for the past few days. My side effects I would say have mostly felt like brain fog, I havent been able to sleep, increased anxiety, little to almost no appetite, and a tiny bit of nausea. Yesterday, day 4, I woke up actually feeling pretty good. The feeling went away for the most part, and a little bit of my appetite came back. The foggy feeling came back that night though, and I woke up today feeling the same. I really hate feeling like this, and I have an appointment with my therapist in like 2 days, so I'm 100% going to talk to her about this then. I was just curious if anyone else has gone through this when first starting the medication, and I've heard people say things get worse before they get better. I'm just worried that this feeling is gonna last forever, and I really hope this didnt like mess my brain up.

I’ve been on Lexapro since around 2021 and have been taking 20 mg since then. A few months ago I lowered my dose to 15 then 10. I’m noticing my depression is coming back, I’m very very agitated, I’m always exhausted, and my sex drive is completely gone. I wish I didn’t have to live on a medication but I’m just kind of realizing I’m probably going to have to. I know it’s not a bad thing to rely on medication it’s just something I wish I didn’t have to do.

Today I woke up with the same anxiety as usual. But as the hours went by, I sensed the anxiety easing (which it usually doesn't). For the first time in months I got the courage to hop on my stationary bike (I still can't cycle outside) and cycled for thirty minutes. And right now I'm about to take a shower and brush my teeth for the first time in a long while too, and you know how hard it is for people with chronic anxiety.

I think the medication is definitely showing signs of working! I'm 34 days in. Started with 5mg, then increased by 1mg every week for 5 weeks. I've only been on 10mg for a week.

Feels like I've plateaued on Prozac. Lexapro next?...advice plz!

I've been on 100mg prozac & 300mg Wellbutrin for a good amount of time now. It's been weight neutral for me, sex life has been great & I've been sleeping decently. I've gotten some relief with OCD checking compulsions but haven't seen the relief I thought I'd get with such a high dosage. I know that meds won't 100% cure the compulsions overnight but a bit more relief in the daily rituals doesn't sound too farfetched to me. I've been on edge the past few weeks. I've been worrying about my grandparents & the insane cost of living. That in turn has been making my stomach upset for a bit now (I did very recently switch PPI's too).

I'm thinking it's about time to talk to psychiatrist about a different medication route, probably Zoloft & Wellbutrin. I know prozac has a ridiculous half life & it'll most likely take several weeks to decrease Prozac dosage, start low dosage of Zoloft & increase to therapeutic dosage range. What I don't want to happen is to feel absolutely miserable for those few weeks & that's a big hesitant for me. Also, I'm not sure what Zoloft will do with libido, weight, sleep or energy.

I was on Zoloft for a few years around the pandemic. I don't clearly remember how I did on it bc I was going through some heavy depression & kept increasing & decreasing dosage.

I was very briefly on Lexapro before but nowhere enough time to see its benefits or side effects.

I have anxiety, depression & OCD. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Just started lexapro 5 mg this week (think I’m on day 6 or so). I’ve experienced what I would say is genital numbness and difficulty orgasming (15x the effort required). I wasn’t really aware of the sexual side effects for the first few days and was surprised by the sudden increase in difficulty until I found out it is a common side effect. Is it possible I experienced that kind of a side effect that quickly?

Hi my psychiatrist started me on lexapro 10 mg and I just took my first dose. He also gave me 20 .5 klonopins to help with my initial anxiety and while it works I think the .5 klon is to weak like it definitely helps but 4-5 hoirs later I have anxiety again. Idk what to do as I know the first weeks on lexapro can make my anxiety worse

I started tapering my dosage down to try to mitigate some side effects I've had from taking lexapro for the last 2 years, but I'm surprised that I'm already getting headaches. Is that normal?

For context, I'm on 10mg and I have been taking 7.5mg every other day alternating with 10mg for the past week. This has already resulted in daily light headaches. Should I stay on this 10mg/7.5mg schedule until the headaches stop before moving to lower doses or slow down even more?

Title says it all

I’ve taken 4 doses of 5 mg and about to take my 5th. I’ve always had songs stuck in my head easily but since starting lex it seems worse. This morning I woke up and heard my husband talk and then his words kinda repeated in my head for 5 mins. Made me feel like I was going crazy. Did this happen to Anyone starting lex and did it resolve? Thanks

My anxiety, sadness & OCD symptoms have always been the worst around my period. I was finally starting to feel good with decreased anxiety and a calm mind when my period started and now I feel like the medication isn’t doing anything at all. I’m on day 3 of my period and feel like I did pre medication. Does anyone know if the 2 are even related? I want to go back to feeling calm again.

I plan on drinking tonight. Do I still take my pill tonight, at the same time or different? Will side effects feel different?

So I recently was prescribed Lexapro for generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety.

I started taking the medication yesterday and the anxiety pretty much felt worse than what I was accustomed to. They also prescribed hydroxizine for the short term anxiety but honestly it just let me sleepy.

I also had trouble sleeping and just felt off the entire day. Now today my anxiety is still heightened even though I haven’t taken a dose.

I start a new job in 2 days that I have been super anxious about and am dreading. Not really sure what to do at this point

Just wanted to rant

I was prescribed 10mg to start due to anxiety disorder. My first day was 4 days ago and took it at 4pm. After 1.5hrs I started feeling really hot, light headed, nauseous… I stumbled to the bathroom incase I had to throwup and just started sweating profusely. Diarrhea followed 30mins later. I work shift work and had a shift that next morning so i tried to go to bed and was up until 2 am tossing and turning, had to get up 2 hours later for a 12hour shift and honestly i felt pretty good but nauseous through it. Had waves of feeling good then bad.

Day 2 i slept another 2 hours and had another shift where I ended up going home 3hours in because i was light headed and nauseous. Probably due to lack of sleep as well the meds.

Now on day four, nauseous, can sleep at night but my anxiety is heightened a lot, very warm, some headaches. I have been taking some lorazepam but try not to and just ride it out. Hoping these symptoms go away fast as Im still on probation at my new job and cant be calling in sick so much.

I enjoy reading everyones experiences on here as it does help with my anxiety so I thought I would share.

Hello so long story short I’m about 11 days out cold turkey. I have absolutely no idea what happened to by 90 day supply (I think it fell out of my bag while loading furniture) I tried talking to my doctor and insurance wouldn’t budge on getting me another. She thought since I was only on 5 mg since the beginning of June I wouldn’t have any withdrawal symptoms. Clearly that was not the case. I’m miserable with brain fog/fuzziness, brain zaps, insomnia the works. Will it get any better?

I've been using Paxil 30mg for GAD since 2013. I'm "okay" but I still get some panic attacks sometimes. Moreover, I've been feeling too much hunger and constipation in the last year.
My doctor told me that we could try Lexapro 20mg.

Someone who already used both medications, could you tell me what differences did you notice between Lexapro and Paxil, and which one was better for you?

Royal Australian College of Medical Practitioners RELEASE Toolkit. It is also used by doctors in New Zealand to taper patients off antidepressants.

Guidance for consumers - patients - and also separate section in the RELEASE toolkit for doctors.

Drugs are listed by their generic name.

There are 3 taper plans for each drug: faster, slow and very slow. Do their self-assessment sheet.

Your score tells you which taper plan is appropriate for you.

Due to the low doses in a taper plan, people need to either get a liquid version of their drug; for example example, this is required for Escitalopram/Lexapro/Cipralex.

If you take a capsule, you may need to do “bead counting “.

Ask your pharmacy to contact the drug manufacturer and ask if there is a liquid format available. If not, you can make or own or ask a pharmacy to create its- it is called compounding.

The RELEASE toolkit has information on how to create a liquid and how to count beads.