Posted by blueberry on September 23, 2005, at 6:04:43
In reply to Good and Bad About Lexapro Please, posted by Phillipa on September 22, 2005, at 20:18:54
I'm in the processing of switching over from longterm prozac to lexapro. I'm at about 4mg lexapro right now, after a week where I started at about 2mg (I just cut the pills with a knife). I have noticed in a week that my depression has eased quite a bit and I feel more motivated, and I know from longterm experience with prozac that prozac had the power to eliminate depression but not increase my motivation.
The problem is that I've also been on 5mg zyprexa for a long time, have cut it down to 2.5mg for a week, have added in 7.5mg remeron, and need xanax three times a day. I am experiencing what I believe is severe tardive akathisia from either prozac or zyprexa. So, comparisons of prozac to lexapro are difficult for me to make at this time.
If there are insomnia side effects, the other meds cover that up, so I don't know. I have not experienced a decrease in sex drive. I remember other ssris like paxil and zoloft killed my sex drive instantly within hours of the first dose, but that hasn't happened with lexapro. Lexapro does make me feel anxiety in a period of 3 to 6 hours after dosing, but again that is being confounded by akathisia, so hard to say.
Spent many hours at pubmed. Overall, clinical studies and case studies of lexapro look very encouraging.
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