Posted by lil' jimi on April 13, 2003, at 15:41:28
In reply to Re: Anyone switched to Lexapro? « ggrrl, posted by fanni on April 13, 2003, at 14:22:48
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> > > > Seems like there are a lot of people on here who have talked about Lexapro's improved side-effects, specifically that it has less tiredness and sexual side effects than Celexa. Some have said that it has the same side effects as Celexa. However most people are quoting from press releases - does anyone here know from experience (theirs or others')?
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> > I was just switched over from Paxil CR am I going to experience any withdrawl symptoms? If so how long do they usually last? Thanks for your help.
> > i just started on lexapro a week ago so far its done nothing much,just made me feel a bit sick! does anyone know how long it usually takes to kick in and have therapeutic results?
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hi fanni, welcome to the lexapro thread here at psycho-babble .... thanks for posting!i have only been on lexapro since march 6, so most of what i 'know" about lexapro comes from what i've read from this thread ... from all the way back to ggrrl's post of june 2002 up to yours today ... (anyone heard from ggrrl again ?)... so i do not know the answer to your question, but my guess from what i recall from what i've read ... is...
... well, it depends somewhat on what your being treated for ... people with anxiety seem to get lexapro as often as people with depression. ...and i would say that people with depression have shown a higher tolerance than those with anxiety for lexapro's adaptation-period side-effects...
but generally, i'd guess:
about 6 to 8 weeks of possible side effects,
ranging from less than a week for a few to more than 10 weeks or more for some folks who realized/decided they weren't going to be able to tolerate lexapro ...
it's the therapeutic benefit that i think varies with your symptoms ... i think many of the depressed people report fairly quick relief, two weeks , a week, less some times ... but it seems to me that for anxiety , the adaptation period side-effects initially make the symptom(s) worse and the relief takes some what longer to overcome this... so maybe
4 to 8 weeks for anxiety relief,
with some contrary rare cases of very prompt relief and some of no relief...
bi-polar and anxiety sufferers also tend to be on an interactive collection of meds which are being adjusted, which complicate their picture massively ...
there are the more infrequent cases we read of where, given sufficient time, the initial side-effects do not go away completely ... sometimes side-effects are too severe to tolerate until they go away ...
if i may ask,
what are your side effects?
do you have a dx ?
how much lexapro are you prescribed ?my first week was rough and that tends to be when the worse of the most adverse SEs happen ...
hope you're doing okay ... lots of folks here care ... keep in touch
take care,
~ jim
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