Posted by Mariposa on January 3, 2004, at 11:22:11
In reply to trying another med, posted by ocdforyears on January 3, 2004, at 9:38:22
> Hey gang,
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> more boards like this and we'd all need less meds. I hate to leave this thread, but after 12 days at 5 mg. I was just too stimulated, jittery, all that, to continue the lex. Switching to paxil when I feel ready to try it. Wish me luck. And best of luck to all of you; there are great posts here. I know lex has helped a lot of people, all these meds have; but the side effects...zoloft really freaked me out, lex was too stimulating; wish me luck with paxil.
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>Sorry to hear you have decided to give up on Lexapro. From reading post here for the last year and from personal experience I have to say 12 days is not long enough to decide if Lex is for you. The first 2 weeks tend to be the worst, and side effects, including that speedy jittery feeling, begin to taper off and go away after that. I hate to say this but I think you are throwing in the towel too soon. Have you considered cutting back to 2.5mg? I started at 5mg and in retrospect wish I had started at 2.5mg. I spent all of second week in bed the side effects were so bad. I had nausea, migraine headaches, itchy rash, diahrea, dizziness, extreme lethargy, flu-like symptoms, shall I go on?? Despite that I hung in there with encouragement from this board and around 9th week I began to get results. It was well worth the wait and side effects(which are all gone now) as Lex has given me back my life.
I and others who don't post regularly have had very good results with lex. I would hope you give Lex more of a chance to work for you. The literature says it takes 6-8 weeks, for some like me it's a little longer, and then there are those who seem to get results almost right away.
Hopefully you will discuss w/doc and come up with a solution that will work for you.
Best of luck!~~~8|8
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