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•Voting Question: how to I taper off lexapro safely?
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I am currently on 20 mgs of lexapro and would like to get off of it completely. What is the safest way to do that?
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• How do I safely taper off taking Lexapro?
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I am on 20 mg of Lexapro and I would like to try life without an anti depressant. I can go a day without taking it but then I start to feel sick.
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• best way to taper off lexapro?
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I have been on 10mg of lexapro for 6 months and would like to quit. What is the best way? Can I start taking 5mg a day and then start skipping days?
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• Lexapro-How did doc tell you to taper off?
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I am coming off of Lexapro (10mg). My doctor advised to take one pill every other day for 2 weeks. I am on the second week and am starting to get dizzy and weird feeling in my head. My emotions are okay, a little strong, which is good since they were ALL dead! haha I am just wondering if the tapering off period should be longer than 2 weeks. This seems short from what others have said they were told to do. Just curious on the time period that others were told by medical professionals/pharmacists.
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• Want to stop taking .5mg of Lexapro after taking it for 2 days. Is it safe or should I taper off?
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I noticed an increase in my blood pressure not too high 137/82. Pulse is high on and off. Hot flashes have increased and I have palpitations. Body feels warm at times. I called my psychiatrist and had to leave a message. I have to wait til Tuesday. please help. txs.
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•Voting Question: I'm trying to taper off my Lexapro 20mg but can't! Please help?
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This may be long, but please, if you can help with any information, please read it.
I had my first child in June 2009. Almost immediately after having him, I began suffering from severe anxiety that kept me up and made me panic about everything. Shortly after, I also began to feel depression symptoms. I was just sad and constantly crying. So 3 weeks after I had my son, I had enough of the suffering and got help. My Psychiatrist prescribed me Paxil, don't remember the mg. After being on it for 4 weeks, my anxiety definitely felt much better, but my depression slowly started to feel worse. Not only that, but I was having a difficult time reaching an orgasm and had almost zero libido for the matter. So because of this, my Dr. switched me over to Lexapro which I thought would be fine since I have taken it before for anxiety and felt no side affects. But that was a few years before I had my son.
Probably a week after I started taking 5mg of Lexapro along with a smaller dose of Paxil (weening off Paxil while starting Lexapro) I started to have what I call "drops" where I literally felt like I lost all feeling of anything good. And it was mainly focused on life in general. I felt like life was meaningless and wondering why we even bother with it. And it would happen when I'd watch tv and saw something sad or was doing chores and thought all I live for in life is working. It would only last for about 1 or 2 seconds, but it was scary, so scary. I never wanted to kill myself, at least not cognitively. I'd get those horrible feeling of life being meaningless even though I had this beautiful, amazing little boy in my life who needed me. But, to be honest, and this is the only way I can explain it, sometimes when I'd have a "drop" it would linger a little longer and I'd have strong feelings of not wanting to live, but I never actually thought it. It's like my thoughts knew that life was amazing and worth living so I'd fight against that feeling by telling myself "No, go away, I don't want to die, I want to be with my son and husband, so go away!" and it would go away. I had moments like this a few times a day for about 6-7 weeks after starting Lexapro, which, by the way, as soon as I started feeling those "drops" I called my Dr and told her. She told me that often times people just starting a medication will get worse before they get better and told me to up the dosage to 10mg for a few days and then 20mg. So I did and it took about 6-7 horrible weeks before I finally started feeling better and my old self again.
So that is the background of me and Lexapro. Once I felt better, I felt great and like nothing was ever wrong for an entire year and a half. So about 2 months ago my husband and I decided we wanted another baby. Me being on Lexapro still, I knew I needed to talk to my Psychiatrist about it. So I did. She told me that I should try and get off it first, and had me start to take 15mg for a month to begin the weening process. Well, I did that, and on just the 5th day I began to feel depression symptoms again. Definitely not as severe, but it was the feeling of losing the joy in life. And general sadness. After just 5 days I couldn't take it, especially with the fear of the horrible "drops" coming back, so I began to take 20mg again and went back to my Dr. and told her what happened and began to cry because I told her that I felt like I was stuck on the medication and I wanted to have another baby. She told me rather reassuringly that I can take it still while being pregnant, that it has not been proven to cause complications in the fetus but is known to cause some minor complications, but rarely and not life threatening. And that the baby may show signs of withdrawal, but again not common and not life threatening...That was reassuring because at that point I thought my only options were take Lexapro while pregnant or don't get pregnant at all because it was too hard to get off it. And if I stayed on it, I would have a much less chance of experiencing post partum anxiety and depression again.
Well, now a few weeks after that and I am feeling much better again, but can't get myself to be ok enough with taking Lexapro while pregnant. And I'm having a difficult time thinking I am stuck on this medication for life, or at least a long time since I already showed symptoms again after just 5 days of only 5mg less. I feel like a failure. I just want to get off this medication so I can get pregnant and have the safest pregnancy possible. The worst thing in the world to me is not being able to have another baby :(
So I'm just hoping someone educated in this area can give me any hope, tips, advice of what I should do. I know I should probably talk to Dr.'s, but I sometimes feel like talking to other people who can relate or know what I'm going through would help as well. Thank you!
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• Has anyone experienced Hypothermia after tapering off LEXAPRO?
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I started taking lexapro 10mg 4 years ago when I still had insurance and I began tapering off last year and then 2 months after being completely off it I experienced the weirdest HYPOTHERMIC experience along with other sensations and thoughts that almost made me check into a Hospital...luckily I survived the whole ordeal and immediately I went back onto Lexapro which really sucks....I get my lexapro from a friend who gets it for me for free..(long story) but Im considering going to see a psychiatrist soon. I don't have insurance now, but I'll manage I guess...
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• Tapering off lexapro to wellbutrin???
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I am currently taking lexapro 30mg. I would like to taper down and start to take wellbutrin.
Should I taper off lexapro fully first then begin wellbutrin? (so I can distinguish the wellbutrin effects from the lexapro withdrawal side effects?) Or not necessary.
Im going to my doctor Tuesday. Just wanted to hear thoughts.
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•Voting Question: How do I finish tapering off Lexapro?
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I've been on Lexapro for 9 months at 10 mg per day. I've had some bad side effects from the meds and decided to, at the very least, try reducing my dosage.
I've read such 'horror stories' about the withdrawal symptoms I was ready for the worst. I cut my dosage from 10 mg to 5 mg per day. It has been 10 days now at the 5 mg dosage and I've had *no* withdrawal symptoms (no depression, either - I was prescribed it for 'environmental issues' and things have improved greatly).
I don't want to taper off too fast and I'm not sure what is the best way to proceed? Should I stay at this dosage for a longer period? Should I alternate days (ex: take it one day, skip the next)?
Thank you
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•Voting Question: Tapering off Lexapro?
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I have been on Lexapro only about a year. I was on 10mg until this past October when I was upped to 20mg. I never had any bad side effects getting on, just a little indegestion. My anxiety issues were not constant and actually infrequent. I have started tapering off, I have been taking only 15mg the past week, and I plan on dropping down to 10 for about 2 weeks, then to 5mg for a week and then be off. Is this too fast? I have heard about horrible side effects from weening off, but I am not experiencing anything at all.... am I doing it too fast?
I read that if you didn't really experience any problems getting on your probably wont experience any getting off... except maybe towards the end is that true?
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