Posted by invisiblemanpa on March 10, 2005, at 15:37:00
I was switched from Effexor XR to Remeron, 30mg and Lexapro 10 mg.and Klonopin. It was from my own request because of all the effexor scare talk and my cholesterol had skyrocketed, I am very active, all most a vegetarian and the bad cholesterol had been around 160, it went well over 200 plus the good cholesterol went way down.
Anyway, I switched to cymbalta with no success then to Lexapro. I still am experiancing pretty frequent preiods of depression and anxiety, the klonopin helps greatly with anxiety to keep me functional and the depression is not the deepest I have been through...I am still up out of bed, exercising, reading, actively looking for work, etc...just the blues and bad moods have started to creep back in. My psy doc says that Lexapro has not been effective over 10 mg, he feels the ssris are pretty much all the same....he said the next step might be ECT...no freakin way! I remember old Jack in the Cuckoos nest, plus I know people that have had it done and they say that they have had permanent memory loss...anyway...has anyone had Lexapro prescribed at a higher dosage and have they had success with relief of depression symptons and or control of anxiety??
Thanks,
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