Posted by ayuda on February 23, 2003, at 23:13:14
In reply to Lexapro seems to be a step back in AntiDeppresants, posted by TommyTommy on February 20, 2003, at 0:02:38
> I've been on 10mg of Lexapro for about 6 weeks now and I have to say that: Yes it has brought me out of the cellar of depression but other SSRI's have also done that. When I say cellar I mean the extreme depths of feeling low. It has brought me to a liveable coping level I guess you could say. Being that it is a new drug and of coarse my doctor was pushing it, I decided to give it a shot. So far I feel like I'm just floating in limbo and wasting my time and money. As far as being social, I still feel like being isolated and by myself and that is not my normal personality at all. I am usually very outgoing and fun to be around. It also seems to make me extremely unmotivated and isn't helping at all with anxiety. The sex thing: I don't seem to have that much anorgasmia compared to Effexor but I'd rather be a happy camper in general than just be able to have an orgasm. Should I up my dosage to 20mg? Has that been a key difference to anybody? Is Celexa better as it seems that most of the people on this site seem to think so? I'm also taking 2000Mg of Depakote a day. Does anybody else feel that this drug was just something that the drug companies quickly got onto the market? I mean all they did was isolate half of Celexa in laden terms. So basically it seems that Lexapro is a crappier form of Celexa. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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> TommyI've taken both Celexa and Lexapro (what I'm on now), as well as some others. Every SSRI I've taken has helped with the depression, and some have helped with my GAD, too. The Lexapro works very good for my depression and pretty well for my GAD. With the Celexa, I had depersonalization, which became a major issue for me, and was the main reason I switched off it after about 5 months. After several months on Lexapro, I am not having any psychiatric side effects. I have some of the physical ones (excessive sweating, insomnia), but I am feeling human. So, in my experience at least, for what it's worth, it feels like they kept what was good about Celexa and took away what I could not handle about it when they created Lexapro.
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