Posted by lil' jimi on July 15, 2003, at 2:00:43
In reply to re: lexapro question again, posted by McPac on July 14, 2003, at 22:16:20
hey Mc Pac, How you doing, man?
i had written:
> "it is an odd effect to experience both the lethargy and the agitation that lex can induce"
>
> >>>>>>>>>And I thought Lex was supposed to have such minimal side effects, lol, these meds are all the same, if it isn't one batch of lousy s/e's it's another, lol, never believe the marketing crap hype.....so are these two of lex's more common s/e's (lethargy and agitation)? As for the agitation, do you mean more like nervousness or more like an irritability/temper kind of thing? Thanks dudes & dudettes!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
... yeah, well they like to call them "Side-Effects" when their anti-therapuetic detriments are really front and center ... my own reading of the posts to this thread suggests, IMHO, that perhaps lex has a higher incidence of new users having zero or nearly zero SEs ... which is very small consolation to any given specfic lex user ... ... my total disregard for promotional stuff about lex defies me caring about hype ... one's own experience should be our guide and the experiece of fellow users on this message board ... ...i'd say they are among the more common SEs, fatigue and anxiety
... ... we should start accepting nominations for the most common lex SEs ...when i wrote "lethargy" to refer to the fatigue-sleepiness which i experienced in my 1st two weeks ... ... sometimes this a kind of calm trance-like inertia ... kind of sedative-like
and when i wrote "agitation" it was to refer to ... ... well, really to respond to elise's son's symptom ... which i was relating to my own kind of stimulant sort of amphetamine-like buzz, which i used to get just after taking my lex dose in the early days ... ... i related to her son's experience with the strange sensation i had of both the fatigue/sedation and the speedy/stimulation happening at the same time ... my ironic lex SE.
... for me though they all went away after 2 weeks ... .. ... oh, i guess i had the sweats for another week or 2 maybe, then that gradually faded to nothing too ...
best luck to you McPac,
~ jim
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