Posted by blueberry1 on January 27, 2007, at 4:42:38
In reply to Re: How do you know to increase or change SSRI?, posted by bigpopper on January 26, 2007, at 19:00:39
Again, I felt the same pattern as you. Lex made me feel more depressed after I took it. But then later in the day I felt better. All I could figure was that I was feeling better as its blood level was starting to come down. The only experiment I found that partially helped was to split the 10mg tab in halves and dose it twice a day instead of once. It was more acceptable that way.
I had no start-up side effects when I switched straight across to zoloft. Every side effect I had on lexapro...anxiety, insomnia, worsened depression, anorgasmia...all improved rapidly within 3 days.
Strange how drugs that do basically the same thing can be so different.
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