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Posted by libra on December 17, 2004, at 5:16:36
i just have some questions if somebody can assist me. i tried celexa first over the summer of 2004. i started forgetting whether or not i took my medicine. i would evidentaly take 3 or 4 doses a day. in two week, i was finished with my months supply. so they switched me to lexapro in september. suicidal thoughts, depressed, weight gain, i am talking 30 pounds if not more since september. it is now december 17th...i am up to 20 mg a day. i guess i was sick of the doctors and everyone treating me as if i didn't know what i was talking about. suicidal thoughts are not normal. and when i am so scared and crying that i am afraid of myself and what i might to, there is something not right. i ended up feeling worse then better on this stuff. so i decided after multiple phone calls, multiple therapy sessions, i would take my life back. i stopped the lexapro two weeks ago. ohhhh badddd... i am sick. perhaps it is the flu, but i have had a constant headache everyday since...yesterday i started vomiting. i can not keep anything down. i have been nauseated for the past three days. no fever...i have been cold/hot. up and down. yesterday i went to go to the doctor and got too dizzy to leave my house. that is when i started vomiting. i can not hold anything down for a long period of time. i am drinking hot herbal tea to sooth my throat and stomach. i still have my headache. sleeping is sporatic. crazy dreams, nightmares, if you will. or just not sleeping at all as it is three in the morning as i am writing this. i am chalking these symptoms up to stopping the lexapro so abrubptly. i have heard the bad things associated with stopping any medicine. they also had me on gabatril for a mood stabalizer as well as buspar. which reading i found out that buspar should not be mixed with lexapro? i don't understand why i would be put on it? and further more, i understand lexapro takes a while to work? september to december it should be in my system. suicidal thoughts started soon afterwards. i am sorry but if that is even a consideration as a side effect, i for one do not think it should be on the market. period. it scared me. i have an eleven year old. and his mom wants to die. this is not normal. so i am slowly but surely getting my life back together without medication. weightgain has been terrible and quite upsetting. my self esteem is so low i don't know what else to do. so yeah, i switched to lexapro...and am sorry i did...ah i am done thanks for listening...
Posted by ed_uk on December 17, 2004, at 12:49:45
In reply to lexapro, posted by libra on December 17, 2004, at 5:16:36
Hello!
It would be best if you re-posted your message on to the main psycho-babble board. It is a lot busier than this one and focuses on medication! So many people on psycho-babble have experienced withdrawal symtoms from drugs like Effexor and Lexapro. You would get many more responses there.
All the best,
Ed.
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