Posted by Joslynn on December 14, 2004, at 21:25:49
I have a question. I have been on 10 mgs of Lexapro and several months ago, I went down to 5 mgs, something I had been wanting to try for a while. I didn't crash, but after several weeks, I did feel a little depression breaking through, so I got nervous and went back up to 10. (This was all under pdoc supervision. I could tell he didn't really want me to reduce, but it's something I wanted to try.)
Anyway, I went back up to my usual dose of 10 and was at that level for, hmm, I think about six weeks. I felt better.
Then, I had something very painful happen in my personal life and felt a sense of abandonment. This is a big trigger for me and I crashed, had another severe episdoe of depression, and had to take off a couple weeks of work. It was serious. I went back on Remeron for a while, tapered off that and stayed on my regular 10 mg Lexapro dose.
So, here I am three months after the crash and I feel good.
My question is, could tapering off the Lexapro have contributed to the crash, even though I had been back up to my normal dose or about six weeks before the crash occurred? Or was that just a coincidence?
I was feeling fine one day, then I had the personal crisis, then I crashed.
I wonder, was it all just situational, or remnants of having reduced the meds previously???
Does anyone have any ideas? thanks.
poster:Joslynn
thread:429677
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