Posted by mills on October 28, 2002, at 12:13:59
In reply to Re: Week 5, posted by merlin on October 28, 2002, at 12:05:13
well, in my case, it was because i hated the sexual side effects, and lex holds out hope (as literally every new generation of ssri has since prozac came on the market) of producing less sexual side effects; i have doubts, but i am willing to switch in order to try to find a better medication; if lex is not it, i'll run, not walk, back to paxil
> I dont understand if you were doing fine on Paxil why did your doctor swutch you to lexapro, and why did my doctor switch me if Celexa was doing the trick. I was doing fine on lexapro the first week so i thouight but now I am feeling pretty bad most of the time. Why are the Doctors switching everyone to Lexapro and it shows some drug stores are running out and waiting for shipments. are our doctors benefiting from switching us to Lexapro? and why switch us if we were doing fine on our old meds?
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> > hey whar, i relate to your story; i am 48 and until about ten years ago, i had never seen a psychiatrist or a psychologist, even though i had suffered from years of an obsessive compulsive introspection that absolutely sucked all my energy down to the bone; long story short, i got to the end of my rope a year and a half ago, and got on paxil; one of the hardest things i've ever been through, but it saved my life; it took me maybe 3 months to get leveled out, but it made me feel happy for the first time in 30 years; i got off of it because of the horrendous sexual side effects, and besides i thought, wow, i feel better, maybe i don't need it anymore (riiiiiiight); so, now i'm on lexapro, and so far it's not helping all that much, but i'm going to stick it out awhile longer, sexual side effects and all; hang in there
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> > > Thanks for the support. Lexapro is the first antidepressant I've ever taken and I'm on other meds. I'm a 41 year old male. My new doctor (Family Physician)Is trying them on me. After other Doc's have told me over the past five or six years that there's nothing wrong with me I'm just to uptight, need to relax and not let things bother me. Easy for them to say! My new Doc thinks from talking with him, that I have a case of mild depression (mild?). Looking at some web sites I think I might have general anxiety disorder. 9 out of 10 symptoms are me. Worry about everything, insomnia, weight loss, anxiety, restlessness, irritabilty and so on. And this is nothing new. My wife told me the other day that I'm reminding her of how I was when we met 18 years ago, Happy, funny, less irritable, angry etc. But I think I've had a problem since I was a kid and it's just gotten worse. Actually I think it's inherited. My Mom took valium for years and my Dad was such an ill tempered tyrant, that my sister got married just to get away & I could'nt hardly stay through High School. Dad got on Paxil a couple of years ago but I don't think he takes them like he should. He's happy on them and meaner than hell off them. Anyway, that's my story and I don't intend to stop Lexapro or missing a dose. Don't want to take a chance of slipping back to the oldself. Myself and my family don't like him.
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