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• Antidepressants, Lexapro side effects if you decrease it or stop it?
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I've been on Lexapro for about 6 mo.s for depression. I don't notice a huge difference, I think it may have helped some. I still have the same anxiety.
I started gaining weight, 10lbs so far, and don't want to keep taking it if I could do without it, as I take so much other medication. I hope to get off of much of it; try more natural things, and most are very expensive.
I've heard of people taking it for a period.
I hope I can find information here about how it feels to get off of it, or even if I reduce it to 5mg. I take 10mg now.
What type of side effects, how severe, for how long. How long will I be a menace? Kidding.
I have been pretty sensitive to getting on and off meds in the past, meaning I get side effects. I can tolerate it and 'get through it' if it's not too horrible.
I forgot to take the Lexapro for a day or two in the beginning. when I was traveling. Boy did I have crying spells, which I've never had, and felt bad. I didn't make the connection until later.
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• What side effects from Lexapro have you experienced?
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I've been on Lexapro for about a year for anxiety and panic(also been on Xanax for the same amount of time and Ritalin for 15 years for ADHD). It seems that I get bouts of depersonalization to where I feel like I'm in a dream, as if I'm hazy and halfway asleep. These feelings come and go sometimes lasting only a day, or sometimes two weeks before fading. I can still function, work, drive, and do daily activities but its a bothersome feeling which leads me to think that there is something wrong with me when in reality I know nothing is. I'm starting to get the urge to talk with my doctor and try to get off of this medication over the course of a few weeks as I know it can't be stopped suddenly. Has anyone else experienced this with Lexapro?
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• Lexapro Side Effect - I'm really tired?
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I've called my doctor, but he's in surgery today, and I was kinda wanting options of others.
My doctor said that Lexapro would take approximatley 4-5 weeks to start working, and I've been on it now for 7 days. I have heard that it can make you tired, but I'm not sure if I'm tired because of the medicine or if I'm just tired because that's what happens when you have two kids LOL.
Can the pill be affecting me after only 7 days? If so, has anyone experienced sever tiredness? And if you have, did it go away? I'm REALLY tired. Arms feel like jello, can't stop yawning, feel like I could crawl into bed and not get up for another 8 hours. It could just be the fact that I'm not sleeping well, and life is life.... but if it's the pill, I'm not sure I want to continue it. I was taking Wellbutrin XL and had an allergic reaction to it, and have been off it for 8 days now. Just curious to see what other people have experienced.
P.S. I'm taking 10mg and I'm taking them at night
Thanks in Advance!
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• What light concentration medication could I take? With not many side effects?
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I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger, but most of my life I've struggled with depression. Almost every antidepressant I try makes me like a zombie. I can't think and thus I can't focus on the things I love even more. I think that I might like to try a light medication to help my focus. Preferably one that doesn't change too much in the brain, and doesn't have many bad side effects.
I've known people who have tried aderol and say it was a miracle drug, but either led to addiction, or they forever felt worse off of it - worse than before they started. I can't focus on anything I love to do and I wonder if that's what is making me the most depressed. I've been like this since I became a teenager, and I'm 20 now. So seven years.
I sometimes have wondered if problems focusing and depression were connected, but I suppose many kinds of mood, or behavior problems can be linked. I have tried lexapro, effexor, zoloft, and now on wellbutrin. and it was good at first. I lost weight I wanted to lose. I started getting it together, and then I started feeling sluggish. I started just feeling out of my element. I no longer had terrible thoughts or hit the low notes that made me fall into a depressed state. I was in a fog where I couldn't see anything. I wasn't happy, I wasn't sad. For awhile it actually felt better this way. I didn't have to feel sad, and in time not feeling anything got boring.
I suppose it was nice to have the hunger supression in my medication, and I don't need to lose much like 10 pounds. What focusing drug would at least help give me my focus back without having many negative side affects if I take it or after I've stopped it. I guess not being so hungry all the time now would be nice. My priority is just getting better.
Of course I would go to the doctor! But that's basically what most doctors do! I wanted to see how some of these kinds of drugs effected other people so I could see if they were really for me. You internet people assume the worst.
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• What is some light concentration medication I could take? With not many side effects?
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I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger, but most of my life I've struggled with depression. Almost every antidepressant I try makes me like a zombie. I can't think and thus I can't focus on the things I love even more. I think that I might like to try a light medication to help my focus. Preferably one that doesn't change too much in the brain, and doesn't have many bad side effects.
I've known people who have tried aderol and say it was a miracle drug, but either led to addiction, or they forever felt worse off of it - worse than before they started. I can't focus on anything I love to do and I wonder if that's what is making me the most depressed. I've been like this since I became a teenager, and I'm 20 now. So seven years.
I sometimes have wondered if problems focusing and depression were connected, but I suppose many kinds of mood, or behavior problems can be linked. I have tried lexapro, effexor, zoloft, and now on wellbutrin. and it was good at first. I lost weight I wanted to lose. I started getting it together, and then I started feeling sluggish. I started just feeling out of my element. I no longer had terrible thoughts or hit the low notes that made me fall into a depressed state. I was in a fog where I couldn't see anything. I wasn't happy, I wasn't sad. For awhile it actually felt better this way. I didn't have to feel sad, and in time not feeling anything got boring.
I suppose it was nice to have the hunger supression in my medication, and I don't need to lose much like 10 pounds. What focusing drug would at least help give me my focus back without having many negative side affects if I take it or after I've stopped it. I guess not being so hungry all the time now would be nice. My priority is just getting better.
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• I've just started taking Lexapro again after being off it for about a month...it makes my leg shake...?
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among other side effects. Should I just wait it out for a while to see if the side effects go away? My mood got really suicidal when I stopped taking it before and I really don't want to go through that again...but the side effects are scary. What do I do???
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• normal for antidepressant side effects?
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I'm 15 years old. About 5 days ago I was prescribed the antidepressant lexapro. I understood there were potential side effects that I might have to deal with as seritontin was building in my system, and maybe even a few after the matter, but on day 5 I'm sort of worried. I have chronic depersonalization, and experience effects of derealization and at this point I'm kind of where I started with the disorder. I can't really talk to people because I can't concentrate on what they're saying even if I try really hard (which was a short lived phase of when I first gained depersonalization), things seem pretty foggy and blurry even though my vision is fine, and DP in general seems to be more intense and I feel a lot more dissociated. Also my anxiety seems pretty bad, but it's different than how it was prior to taking medication, now my anxiety includes worrying about every body ache, I've thought I was going unconcious or having a heart attack a few times and sort of panicked, and I feel pretty paranoid.
So do antidepressants get better before they get worse? I'm seeing my doctor in a few days but I sorta want to know if this is typical to take a load off my mind if you know what I mean. Thanks if you can answer :)
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• could lexapro been what caused this?
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ok my friend was put on lexapro today and i had some flash backs of my past experience with lexapro. i took it for a year with no problems then got off when i quit my stressful job and was fine. i had surgery then started having small panic attacks so after a 2wks after my gallbladder surgery i thought i would try the lexapro again to help out. well the first night i woke up with horrible nausea and sweats didn't have a clue what was going on. this went on for 2 days called the doc they told me to keep taking it. ok it only got worse i started crying sooo bad then a friend one of my friends told me it made her feel the "s" word so i got really panicky scared and that afternoon i was terrifed by a knife sitting in the sink. i know now this was anxiety playing a part but it has taken 9 months for me to figure this out. this all happened in 6 days then i got off. i have been battleing with unwanted scary thoughts because of the knife image like hurting a loved one or myself becuase i didn't know what was going on with me for 9 long months. i decided to google weired lexapro side effects today and this very thing happened to someone else so i know it was now all along the lexapro causeing the anxiety to be sooo severe i started to really panic. has anyone else had this happen to them and now to get rid of the unwanted thought and scary feelings completly. i was not like this at all before this experience. can something like this cause the pure O to make you think like this for a while.
so are you too saying it was just my anxiety that caused me to panic because of the weird feelings i was having from the lexapro. i was only diagnosed with severe anxiety after i went through all this. i was totally fine before just the usual stress related to working full time and having 2 young kids at home was why i was on it to begin with. this whole thing after the surgery was something i have never experienced before at all. i was told i was not bipolar or schyzo from my doc and counselor i had to see because of this anxeity. just wanted to clear this up. only other med i was on at the time was yaz birthcontrol. that is it
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•Voting Question: Should I give my ex-boyfriend info about side effects of his depression medication?
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I recently got dumped by my boyfriend who has issues with ADD and depression. He has been on lexapro and the scary part is he has been on and off it during the year + we dated. He would forget to take it sometimes or would just run out so be off it for a month or so. I found some articles on line that talk about SSRI's and how they affect a person's ability to feel "romantic feelings" or that "In love" feeling. In fact I have read about how it can cause emotional blunting where a person doesn't feel much at all. After reading this and some other articles on the side effects/experiences with these drugs a lot of things make sense…in my relationship. He would get headaches, he would have trouble sleeping, or sleep really long periods of time, he had a “I don’t care” attitude about most things, he never showed much emotions (never cried), and experienced sexual side effects as well. He said he loved me all the time during our year and a half relationship and then after about a month and a half off the Meds back in Oct-Nov last year he went back on them in Dec. Within about 2 months of taking them again he suddenly decided that he had “no feelings” for me and didn’t love me anymore. He said he “felt nothing” and he wanted to be alone and was happier being alone. This is the same guy that was insecure and said I love you all the time and would say stuff that made me feel that he was afraid of losing me, even though I never gave him a reason to feel that he would lose me. He was always asking me "Is everything okay? Are you okay? What's wrong?" whenever I even had a hint of distraction in my face. It was like he was afraid I was upset with him or something. But we always had a good time together and laughed, etc. Since the break up he has been "nice" when we speak but I have initiated all contact. If I don't contact him it's like he never knew me now…we barely even talk. After talking EVERY day and telling me he loved me everyday and being happy to see me, talk to me, etc…he turned ice cold.
My question is… should I show him this research and articles? I think he should be aware of it…but not sure if I should send it to him. I don’t want him to think I am just trying to get him to love me again. I think it’s important for him to know this for any future relationships. I mean the guy said I was the best girlfriend ever and that I was the "best thing in his life, the ONLY good thing in his life" just Nov of last year and then suddenly dumped me like that. That’s just not normal.
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• Does anyone take the following combination of prescribed medication? And do you have these side effects? ?
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I was prescribed Adderral over a year ago and have been taking 20mg per day. I only take the medication on the days I work and on the weekends when I have things to get done. Anyways... I over the past year I've noticed that I'm always messing with my hair (This is a habit I've always had, but is much worse now). I'm 30 and starting to go gray :( The gray hairs are coarser than the brown ones so I feel around for the coarse ones and pull those out. I'm doing this all the time and its hard for me to stop... I'm obsessed!!! I do it at work, driving in the car, etc... Any suggestions on how to stop? I keep forgetting to talk to my doctor about this.
Part 2...
About a month ago I started having really bad panic attacks at work. I had rapid heartbeat, tingly arms, shortness of breath. It felt like I was going to pass out or have a heart attack. I've had this feeling a few times over the year since I started taking my adderall, but it started to get much worse! I was having the attacks weeky for about a month due to added stress at work and stopped taking my adderall for a few days because I started to worry that was causing my panic attacks. I finally called my doctor and he sent me to the cardiologist to get my heart checked out (they performed a EKG and cardiogram).
My results came back and my heart is in great condition and my doctor perscribed me Lexapro and Xanax in addition to my Adderall... and told me to take 3 days off work and get some rest. When I was off work I started taking my Lexapro and Xanax and I felt GREAT! It's like they found a miracle drug for me! I got my rest and was feeling FABULOUS and I still am!
Anyways... since taking these medications I've done some research and I've heard of people taking the combination of Adderall and Lexapro together, but not Xanex! I've told a few close friends what I'm taking and some of them freak out and are worried about me and the combination of drugs I'm on! They are worried about the effects and interactions of the drugs and my long term health. I usually shrug it off and tell them it's what the doctor gave to me and since he went to med school he knows best!
I'm feeling great... never been better... but would like to know anyones thoughts, suggestions if they've gone through any of these problems!!! Just curious!
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