Posted by ayuda on February 28, 2003, at 22:47:07
In reply to Re: LEXAPRO,users feedabck please, posted by male34 on February 24, 2003, at 17:36:53
> > I have been on Lexapro for 3 months now. The medication has worked very well on my depression but for the social anxiety I do not feel that it has done as great a job as Paxil did. I have Ativan for an as-needed basis for anxiety, but I have also found that I need the Ativan in order to get a good night of sleep. Luckily, no weight gain, however, I do exercise 3-4 weeks.
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> > Watch out for sexual saide effects - no loss of arousal but extreme labor needed for climax.
> ativan whats that for what does it do etc>>im anxiety agoraphobic,bit social to iw ould say?whats ativan?
>Ativan is a benzodiazapine that is used, among other things, for anxiety (I take it for help sleeping and for panic attacks when I fly). In other words, it is a tranquilizer.
In my experience with Lexapro, it doesn't do as good a job on anxiety as Effexor did, but I have not had any panic attacks while taking it. However, I have had that feeling that a panic attack is going to come on, though I wait for it and it doesn't come. But I'm always afraid that there will be some break-through panic attack at some point, and then I don't know what I'll do, because the Lexapro works so well on my depression and has given me so few problems.
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