Anyone else experience more anxiety on Lexapro?!
Question: I am for the time being, but for the first week only took 5mg, switching to 10mg thereafter and have only been on it a little over a week. Am kind of expecting it to go away though because otherwise have noticed a positive impact on depression.
Answers: I am for the time being, but for the first week only took 5mg, switching to 10mg thereafter and have only been on it a little over a week. Am kind of expecting it to go away though because otherwise have noticed a positive impact on depression.
My anxiety definitely got worse when I was taking Lexapro. But everyone responds differently to medications. Just keep an eye on it and let your doctor know if I keeps up. There's other things you can try beside that, but it should go away after taking it a while.
Anxiety/agitation/activation are very, very common side effects of SSRIs, including Lexapro. It almost always gets better over a few weeks' time. If it does not, tell the doc. There are a dozen good antidepressants on the market, not all of which are associated with that kind of activation.
Good luck.
iam currently taking 10 mg right now and i still feel worse meaning more down than what i before the medacation going back to the doctor of feb 6th
yes I did, I kept telling my then psychiatrist that it only made me feel worse, she kept raising my dosage, or telling me it takes weeks to work.
It made me feel terrible,but I was too afraid to leave- and thought it would work. I ended up to the point I couldn't deal with how I felt & ended up finding a doctor who actually listened to me and treated me as a person not just a patient. Its changed my life....
Some doctors treat every patient the same, you need to find the rare ones who treat you as an individual. Everyone is different and reacts- responds to each medication differently.
I wish I only acted sooner. Also, I've been treated terribly by doctors in the past.... I now know they're not allowed to treat you the least bit unfairly. My doctor told me about a great doctor who got his license suspended because he failed to called a patient back. Nothing happened to the patient, but she reported him anyways. I've had doctors do much worse to me and I let it go. I won't anymore.