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• Lexapro, Pregnancy and after effects on babies/children?
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Have any of you out there taken Lexapro while pregnant, if so when did you start taking it during your pregnancy and has your child(ren) had any adverse side effects whether temporary or long term. I have tried to come off of it but cannot and the stress/anxiety/depression has caused my ovulation to be messed up so I am having trouble pin-pointing my ovulation to conceive, last month I didnt even ovulate at all. Ughh
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• Lexapro side effects?
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In the past (before I was pregnant), I was on 20mg daily of Lexapro for just under 2 years. During my pregnancy, I stopped.
Now I am back on 15mg daily (which seems to be working fine), and I have been back on it for just about 5 months.
I am taking it for GAD (general anxiety disorder) & depression.
I have NOT had side effects such as: nausea, sleeplessness, anorgasmia, etc.
I am generally more happy! But, these are wierd things I've noticed, anybody know if these symptoms/side effects are normal, or even from the meds?: hard to concentrate, zone out easily, either really talkative or not at all, some lightheadedness, wierd dreams/nightmares...
Any insight is appreciated :)
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• Anxiety and loss of appetite during pregnancy?
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I'm 19w 4d.. Before I became pregnant I was on paxil for a long time for panic attacks.. I took it when I was pregnant with my last child with NO problems but this time around they have decided that paxil is a big NO NO during pregnancy.. So once I found out I was pregnant my dr told me to stop the paxil and offered to give me something instead or let me see how I did without it.. For whatever reason I decided to just see how I did.. I did fine for the first month or so.. But my morning sickness set in which was 24/7 sickness.. I had this with my other 2 but it was different this time.. Where as with them I could eat and did have an appetite, this time around I could NOT eat.. I found myself struggling to even get a bite or two of something down.. My OB assured me this was normal and should eventually subside, but as weeks 14 and then 15 came and went I still had no relief, still was having to force myself to eat.. I would wake up anxious about the day just stressing over having to eat.. The anxiety finally got so bad I went back to the dr and they suggested I go back on some sort of antidepressant and wanted me to try lexapro.. I tried it for one day and it made me feel crazy headed.. If that is a side effect that would have subsided I could NOT have dealt with that.. I didn't like that feeling so I didn't take it again.. They have me now on prozac which I have been taking for about 2 and a half weeks, but still am having anxiety daily pretty much non stop.. Besides worrying about not being able to eat I am now feeling anxious about just being ready to feel better.. So that is my story, and my questions are has anyone ever had any success with prozac for anxiety and anyone ever had the complete loss of appetite and are there ANY things I can do to help me to feel hungry??? Any words of encouragement would be GREATLY appreciated!!! Thanks
I have lost 20 pounds so far.. How long did it take for you to start feeling better after starting the zoloft?
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• being pregnant and having a baby?
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I am on Lexapro right now, but I know once I am ready to get pregnant, I need to quit (and I will quit a few months before getting pregnant. I am scared of the side effects of quitting, I have tried before and I have felt really weird "sqaushy" feelings in my head and just really light headed. How can I cope with that? and what if my anxiety comes back during the pregnancy and I can't cope? I wasn't able to cope with the anxiety before, which is why I got on lexapro. HELP!
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• Years of fatigue, excessive hunger, and anxiety anyone else with this problem?
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These symptoms have been ruining my life and preventing me from living normally so please real answers only.
Years of fatigue, excessive hunger, and anxiety
These symptoms have been ruining my life and preventing me from living normally so please real answers only.
For two years now I have been suffering from the following symptoms. Extreme fatigue, anxiety, excessive hunger this all began when I was about 4 months pregnant with my second child. Before that I was not tired during the day or needed a nap. I was able to control my appetite and my weight.
And I was not anxious all the time and did not have a problem with anger and irritability or depression. But ever since after I gave birth and seen a doctor for the symptoms that seemed quite normal during pregnancy turned into something that looked like depression and I was diagnosed with clinical depression.
The following is the medication that I have been given and used to help me with the symptoms of that time maybe some depression feelings where there: Zoloft, lexapro and wellbutrin XL
I was also told I have underactive thyroid and an inflamed thyroid and took Synthyroid for 4 months (side effects from Synthyroid excessive sweating, a bit less hungry) other symptoms where still there so then I saw an endocrinologist who tested for insulin, testosterone levels and THS and said everything looks good its not a thyroid problem or insulin but the testosterone was borderline / high which he said for women my age 26 would be at around 25-50 I was at 76.
So then put me the birth control yasmin to help bring it down. It has not helped with any of my symptoms. I am still very tired all the time and need to take naps during the day I am always hungry and still really irritable and moody.
I am a stay at home mom so I do not have the lack of sleep from over working and I do not eat because I am bored I actually feel hungry most of the time. All these symptoms have not been a problem anytime in my teenage years and young adult life until the point of my second pregnancy.
I am thinking but I am not sure I am not a doctor. that a big possibility for all the other symptoms is the cause from the fatigue and then I eat to trying to give my body sugar to keep going. Which causes me to get moody irritable then anxious and maybe even a bit of depression because of the weight gain and crash dieting.
Is there anybody who has had these problems and figured out the cause of the problem and been treaded correctly? I just want to get well, be normal, strong and not tired I do not want to feel so helpless and have this uncontrolled hunger anymore. Please anyone with any suggestions or maybe has seen somebody with these problems what did they do to get better?
Thank you very much for all your help.
Sorry for the long writing i just did not want to miss anything that could be the difference between the solution and the underling problem.
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