Posted by BobYuma on February 26, 2004, at 8:37:19
In reply to Lexapro step-down: thoughts, advice?, posted by shequinn on February 25, 2004, at 22:17:36
>> My husband wants to step down his Lexapro because he is having emotional flattening, jaw popping issues and intolerable nausea - plus, the sun is starting to come back, and that's usually when his depression wears off (he has SAD). He's at 7.5 mg now, and was plannin to take 5mg instead, starting tonight, for a week to ten days. Any advice? Any ideas of what he might want to look out for, or things he can expect?
------------------------------------Hello, shequinn.
I now exactly how your husband feels. I also decided to step down my dose because the headaches and jaw clinching were driving me crazy.
I was taking 10 mgs at the time, so I cut the pill in half and tried 5 mgs for a few days. 5 mg's didn't do it for me (everyone is different). I felt the stress strongly coming back within about three days, and I knew that the depression would soon follow, that's the way it works for me. I went back to 10 mgs long enough to get over the stress, then tried 7.5 mg's. This amount is and has been working fine for me, the SE's are all but gone, and my stress level is something I can easily live with.
If 7.5 mgs are already helping your husband, but the SE's are a bigger problem, then if it were me, I'd try 5 mgs for a few days. It won't take him a week or ten days to find out if this amount isn't enough, and if it isn't, he can up the dosage at once.
But it may take him a little longer to see much difference in the side effects. They will lessen rather slowly, at least mine did, I suppose because the Lex is already in our system at the high-dose level. So tell him not to give up on that small amount
helping to lessen the SE's, it will eventually.
Hope this information helps. Take care and God Bless.
BobYuma
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