Posted by merlin on October 28, 2002, at 18:27:32
In reply to Re: Doesn't anyone like Lexapro » merlin, posted by CuriousJane on October 28, 2002, at 13:54:14
Curious Jane
Many thanks from me to you. After reading your follow up post to mine and seeing how much of what you explain you were feeling on lexapro was the same for me. I called my Doctor and asked for an appointment today. My doctor switche on 10/18/02 from 40 MG of celexa to 20 MG of Lexapro the first four to five days were great. and then Wow! Like a bombshell hit, I had feelings and thoughts and concerns and fears after dealing with all these terrible feelings along with overeacting, to things worring about things that needed to get done and not acting on the not caring to do anything and started to get the feeling of wanting to hide inside my house and not go out. in the past 5 days my friends have had to try and force me to get out of the house. After reading your Post you made me call my doctor and go and see him right away. for the first time in the past five days when i walked through the door into the doctors areas where u get weighed and bloodpresure checked before see ing the doctor the doctor said to me carefull with him he is a magician he will make u dissapear. its the first time i felt safe and actually laughed a little bit in 5 days.
after talking to my doc in his office he could see I was suffering from something pretty bad.
He switched me to paxil said he would have prescribed that for me a long time ago would have been his first choice. but before i started seeing this Doctor my now retired Doctor took me off paxil a few years back saying it would be cheaper for me seeing i did not have insurance and Paxil was the same as Celexa just different side effects. My new doctr just shook his head. and said starttaking it and call him for anything if i have any problems.Lexapro is not for me.
Thanks goes out to Curious jane for waking me up from the tunnle Lexapro caused me to be in.
Goodluck to everyone else on Lexapro.
I know many of you are having great results its just definatly not for me.I wish everyone the best of Luck.
> I switched from 30mg of Celexa to 10mg of Lexapro on 10/9. It was my idea--not my docs, to see if my sex drive would come back.
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> I was fine for the first 4 days, but then started noticing anxiety, frustration and headaches starting on day 5. By day 9 I was a tense, stressed out mess--overreacting to everything. We (doc suggested) tried upping my dose to 15, but that just gave me more muscle tension. My jaw was sooo tight, the pain was awful. Back down to 10 after a few days, but I still had some muscle tension and I felt "flat." I switched back to Celexa on day 17 (I think) and after 3 days back on Celexa I feel like myself again. It just wasn't for me. My dad had a similar experience to mine, but he gave it 5 weeks before switching back.
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