Posted by Quixote on September 2, 2003, at 0:32:16
In reply to Lexapro Withdrawals, posted by sassyveg on September 1, 2003, at 16:23:49
i tapered down without withdrawal symptoms successfully in this time frame~~
From 20mgs daily for 4-5mo ---> 10mg daily for 4 weeks, taking 20mg just ONCE after a week when my head seemed "zingy", then continued the 10mgs. :
From 10mg daily for 4 weeks + a day/two ---> 5mg (half that tab)daily for 3 weeks or so, taking 10mg on a sparse occasion when i got that "zingy" sense again and found myself going from 0->overly emotional in a nano-second... :
From those 3+ weeks of 5mg daily, i skipped a day, took 5mg, then skipped two, took 5mg, then skipped three days, took a small 5mg half, four days none, etc.etc. maybe backtracking a day once only when i felt wonky, i don't remember...
I've been completely without Lexapro for about a month&1/2 now. All told, this method was seamless and painlessly mild- and i'm hypersensitive- i can feel a molecule under 52 mattresses ;) and like you, i have a career committment in which "I don't want to take the time to deal with feeling like shit for a couple of weeks". (i teach kindergarten)
Hope that helps you, Sassyveg,
Don't get me STARTED re: pharmaceutical prices and health insurance.Quixote
P.S.
The terrible ear ringing that brought about my desperate decision to quit Lexapro has FINALLY stopped. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about Lexapro and/or combinations causing terrible ear ringing?
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> I've read a little bit about the withdrawal symptoms that people have experienced, but those people were all going either cold turkey or tapering down from 10mg. I've been on 20mg for about 4 or 5 months, and I've decided to stop taking it because I don't have health insurance anymore and it's very expensive. Plus the sexual side effects and the teeth clenching are driving me nuts, and the anxiety I was having that I started taking it for has subsided.
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> Anyway, I want to know if anyone out there has successfully stopped taking Lexapro without experiencing these awful-sounding withdrawal symptoms. I'm in law school, and frankly, don't have the time to deal with feeling like shit for a couple of weeks. I'm planning on tapering down from 20mg, to 10mg, then 5mg, and maybe 2.5mg, but it all depends on whether I can get some samples from my doctor.
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> Thanks for any help out there.
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