Posted by Vincent_QC on September 10, 2010, at 6:00:57
In reply to Re: Can lexapro cause panic attacks?, posted by SLS on September 4, 2010, at 5:58:55
> Yes, anxiety can be a reaction to Lexapro. In my experience, it seems to be time-dependent. It appeared by day 14 and disappeared by day 21. I have heard of others experiencing this same pattern.
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> - ScottHummmm hummmm... Before I try too many meds for my social phobia, I never had any problem with increase anxiety with simple meds like the SSRI's...
BUT, now that I try everything, including dangerous meds like the Parnate who lead to hypertensives crisis or meds like Mirapex to boost my dopamine level, my life completly change.
Now, 1 mg of Lexapro is enough to put me in state of panic for 24 hours. It's like my brains, especially serotonin and noradrenaline receptors are hypersensible to all the meds and i'm having overactive reactions on them.
I try to be back on the Cipralex (Lexapro in the USA) last january and I do only one day at 1 mg... I had fast pulse rate, irregular pulse rate as well aa panic attack, tinnitus, dizziness and others side-effects that I cant recall for 24 hours.
Back in 2008, I was on 30 mg of Lexapro and never had anxiety problem with it. I was just lazy with no motivation, gain a lot of weight and had to take stimulants meds with it to wake me up(Ritalin 15 mg + Wellbutrin 300 mg + Lexapro 30mg + a lot of coffee)... that med fail to reduce my social phobia and agoraphobia...like the Celexa , the Prozac or the Zoloft, they all fail to reduce my social phobia, as well as all the Tryciclics meds or the Nardil, Parnate, beta-blocker or Clonidine and the benzo meds... They all fail.
I now think that social phobia is more a personnality problem than a chronic disorder and no pill can fix it, just therapy...
But now with all those meds I took, I have some dammage in my brains and i'm now stuck with extreme panic disorder with chronic anxiety symptoms who are on 24 hours a day (tension headache, chest pain, numbness feeling in the left arm, dizziness, fast or too slow pulse rate and irregulart heart beat, sensitivity to lights and noise, tinnitus, extreme agoraphobia (can't go out of the house or drive without having panic)...
Now i'm trying to be back on the Paxil, the only one SSRI who work to block the panic attack on me. Was able in the past to tolerate more than 40 mg/day without any side-effect.
I start it at 0.3 mg/day last sunday, the liquid form is not available in the Canada, so I have to cut the 20 mg pill into small 2,5 mg piece and crush it into powder and add oil that I previously measure and blend it very well and take it with a syringe for the right dose. I increase it by 0,1 mg each day and of course I have side-effects.
Can you imagine how long it will be to reach the 15 mg dose, who is the minimum effective dose for me?
And at only 0,6 mg/day, I have side-effects... The starting dose is 10 mg... can't imagine to start it at 10 mg now, too bad cause in the past 20 mg was my starting dose and I never had side-effect.
The side-effects I have at only 0.6 mg are mainly increase anxiety, sweating, depersonalization/irreality feeling, insomnia, irregular heart beat with chest pain, dilated pupils of the eyes...and the list goes on... Ok, I have those chronic anxiety symptoms all the time now, Paxil or not, but on the Paxil they are increase my 10% at least.
So yes, Lexapro can cause panic attacks, don't be surprise or afraid, maybe a reduction of the dose to 5 mg will be a good idea?
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