Posted by Snoozy on April 21, 2003, at 0:34:09
In reply to I HATE THIS LEXAPRO!! I CAN'T FUNCTION!!, posted by CJ Nightowl on April 21, 2003, at 0:07:55
Sorry things are so rough. My experience with these drugs is pretty limited, so I can't give you any thoughts on that. Do you have a pdoc? What about having your internist and your pdoc talk to each other? Or getting a pdoc and having him/her work with your internist? I think it can really help treatment if you have a dr who has a sense of what you were like before the depression. Do you take Fiorinol for migraine headaches?
> Okay, the first 2 weeks on the Lexapro (10mg) I was an insomniac, but I was finally starting to feel alive agian! I figured I would sleep when I got some better sleep meds. Then for a couple days I tried taking 10mg of Celexa along with the 10 of Lex because the reason I switched in the first place was because I had the Celexa blahs.
> So early last week my sleep pattern got better but I was very edgy, so I decided it was time to up the dose of Lex to 17and a half mg. (my Internist wanted me to just go from 30mg of Celexa to 20mg of Lexapro, without a second thought) So the 17 and a half I started last Wednesday, (I think) and today and yesterday, all I could do was sleep. The Adderall is NOT working, neither is NO-DOZ, or coffee! I can't do this! I am a mom and a wife and my husband told me today that he "didn't sign up for this", meaning that he is sick and tired of doing the laundry, cooking, shopping and working a high stress sales job too. I feel really bad for him and myself! I want to do things, I just can't! What the HELL can I do!!! I am not taking the Lexapro tonight, but I have no plan beyond tonight. Please help me you guys!! I have another Internist who has known me since before I ever got depressed, and I think she'd be willing to let me try this or that, but she is not a Pdoc, therefore I have my doubts as to how much good she can really do for me. This is what I am prescribed: Lexapro 20 mg per day, Adderall 10 mg per day and Sonata 10 mg per night. Fiorinol as needed for headaches. That's it. That's all I take. Should I just go back to the Celexa and deal with the apathy that I felt with that and maybe get a dose increase of Adderall? Should I try a different stimulent instead of Adderall to take with Celexa? Should I try another A/D along with Celexa and Adderall? Obviously the Lexapro is shit for me, and the Adderall I am starting to have my doubts about and right now I certainly don't need the Sonata, as I can't stay awake anyway!!
> Thanks for listening, please help.
> CJ
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