LEXAPRO Reviews (ESCITALOPRAM OXALATE)Average Rating: 3.2 (2093 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare LEXAPRO with similar:
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RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR LEXAPRO | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
5 | anxiety and depression | none | this is a great drg helped so much with my anxiety and made me calm down and also made me want to go out with freinds. its a wonderful drug | M | 17 | 1 months 10 mg 1X day | 10/22/2011 | 3 | depression | Lack of motivation. Slowing of cognitive thoughts, constipation(mild) | Good drug in terms of lack of side effects, specially when compared to other antidepressants. After awhile, the drug just made me numb, I couldnt really feel anything, and there was a desire in me to look for stimulation elsewhere. I bought this root stimulating shampoo, and a follicle stimulator cause my head felt numb, wouldn't take showers cuz i would feel numb afterwards. If not for the numbness this would be a great drug. | M | 26 | 2 years 10 mg 1X day | 10/20/2011 | 2 | anxiety and depression | stomach pain and severe shaking | started with 6 days of citalopram 5GM had sever stomach aches and shaking, so dr changed rx to lexapro 5GM, shaking and stomach aches are continuing any sugestions? | F | 69 | 1 days 5MG 1X day | 10/20/2011 | 5 | Depression after a death | NONE | I had first tried Zoloft after the death of my mother and felt like a zombie. My doctor switched me to Lexapro and I felt "normal". I wasn't crying constantly and my hopeless feeling went away. The lows were completely manageable! Like any drug everyone reacts differently so just pay attention to your mind and body so you will immediately recognize if this is not for you. | M | 35 | 8 months 10 1X day | 10/18/2011 | 1 | MDD | Didn't work for me. Happiness than extreme sadness. | I was on lexapro for 2 months, maybe more. But not long. Within two days....I was happy. Not just any kind of happy....extreme happy. WTH was going on?? I was super happy, like a freaking cheerleader! Week two, still happy, but getting more normal happy. From then on, just kept getting less happy, less happy. Got off of it, when I hit my depressive state, Once again. | F | 26 | 2 months 40 MG 1X day | 10/18/2011 | 1 | anxiety and depression | fatigue. however ever since i stopped the medication, i have been experiencing Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction and other side effects including paresthesias, impotence, and extreme fatigue. | PLEASE read about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction before you take this medication. It can be PERMANENT. | M | 35 | 6 years 10 1X day | 10/17/2011 | 2 | Depression/Anxiety | I was on it for several months, perhaps almost a year. It made me feel like a zombie. | Didn't help my depression, anxiety, or anything else. I decided to stop taking it, and had no withdrawals/issues cold-turkeying. | F | 21 | 10 MG 1X day | 10/4/2011 | 1 | GAD / Depression | Day 1: Numb and tired; Day 2: Numb, nausea, tired; Day 3: Suicidal, Crying spells, tired, yawing, nausea, no appetite; Day 4: brain zaps, body jerks, tired, yawning, agression, no appetite, ringing in ears, hypersensitive to noises around me. Day 5: stopped taking the drug. | Don't do it. | F | 36 | 4 days 20 MG 1X day | 9/30/2011 | 1 | depression | Three days after starting this I was in the ER thinking I was having a heart attack and my feet were on fire, felt like a knife going in and out of my ankle(later diagnosed as idiopathic neuropathy). Now I can't quit it because of the electrical zings downs my arms and I feel too sick. Now I"m on gabapentin, lorezepam, nortriptylene, norco, sometimes prednisone and my life hasn't been the same since I took this drug. The drs. at ER said lots of people have a hard time starting this drug, they didn't tell me it would be almost impossible to taper off of. I hate this drug. | F | 55 | 8 years 20 mg 1X day | 9/28/2011 | 5 | Panic attacks and GAD | No negative side effects. I've lost about 5 pounds and have had increased libido. | I am terrified of meds and have put off taking them for a long time. I suffered with panic attacks and severe anxiety for 3 years, trying desperately to tackle it on my own with meditation, deep breathing, exercise, etc. It just worsened to the point that my quality of life was greatly affected. I spent every hour of every day in fear of death. I've only been on this medication for 2 weeks, and my panic attacks have gone from multiple times daily to only one a week or less. I can now focus on other POSITIVE things in my life and feel hopeful and alive again. Everybody has a different experience, and I was afraid to try it after reading so many others' responses, but I'm glad I gave it a chance. | F | 33 | 2 weeks 10 mg 1X day | 9/26/2011 | 1 | Postpartum anxiety | Visual hallucinations, crying spell | Due to a paradoxical reaction to ZOLOFT (another SSRI) I ended up at a mental hospital where the genius doctors gave me LEXAPRO. Within hours of taking LEXAPRO I began having visual hallucinations and later crying spells. I had never experienced anything like this in my life and I'm still scared about it. | F | 34 | 1 days 10 1X day | 9/26/2011 | 3 | Depression, panic attacks | At first anxiety, dizzy, numb. Later turned into headaches for most of the time, hot flushes. Worst part is that I feel tired most of the time. My wife is always at me as I sleep in, or worse fall asleep during the day. She thinks I am depressed, i think it is Lexapro making me tired. Apart from that my memory is not good, always walk into a room and think why did I come in here. 12kg (25 pound) weight gain. (not sure why) | This did work for a period to reduce panic attacks. However my ability to work and think clearly was hindering my job. I went cold turkey last year and suffered through some really bad headaches. Then 6 weeks after my last tablet had a really bad day. Racing thoughts and anxiety, i decided to start on the tablets again. That was almost a year ago now. Still tired and not achieving much in life. 2 weeks ago, i have halved my dose to 5mg per day. Was feeling great, clear headed etc until yesterday when I felt terrible again. My problem is that I don't know where I stop and the drug starts. I really want to get off this stuff to see if I am still suffering from any symptoms once it has cleared my system. However after speaking to a few people, that process could take many months to happen... Good luck to all on this drug. It has served a purpose for me, but now I just want off this mind controlling drug, so I can get my old self back.... | M | 36 | 2 years 10 mg 1X day | 9/22/2011 | 5 | anxiety | don't cry | F | 60 | 3 years 20 mg. 1X day | 9/21/2011 | 4 | depression and OCD | Lexapro help me a lot, helped me not to cry all the time and to control my anxiety better. I had no side effects with lexapro. | F | 39 | 16 months 40 mg 1X day | 9/18/2011 | 2 | Depression | Inability to orgasm, diarrhea in the beginning. | Lexapro stopped me from crying all the time but didn't help my mood much. | F | 29 | 3 years 40 mg 1X day | 9/9/2011 | 5 | Anxiety/intrus. thoughts/depression | Tiredness a few hours after taking, "the munchies" -> some weight gain, dulled emotions (though this improved with time), slight sexual side effects. | Gave me my life back after completely breaking down six months ago. Helped not only with the issues I was immediately experiencing (extreme panic and hypochondria) but long-standing social anxiety and obsessive thoughts have also been relieved. Still have mild depression. Side effects are annoying but a small price to pay for my life back. | F | 19 | 6 months 20 mg 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 5 | anxiety/depression | lower libido than usual | I'm lucky to have great success with it. Reading others' entries, it's obvious everyone's experience will be different, and you can't predict your own body's response based on others' responses. | F | 54 | 5 years 20 mg 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 5 | depression bipolar nos anxiety | Some typical antidepressant side effects, but nothing too serious. | Lexapro really helps anxiety. Depression too. Use with a mood stabilizer if Bipolar.This drug has my stamp of approval. | M | 26 | 4 years 20-30mg 1X day | 8/25/2011 | 4 | depression, anxiety | low sex drive, weight gain, headache, irritable bowel, fatigue, spaciness | love my husband but just do not feel like having sex very often, I can go sexless for months! helps me in my job which is high energy and high stress, headaches can be debilitating and twice I had to be picked up from work because the headaches came on so strong I couldn't drive myself home | F | 46 | 7 years 10 mg 1X day | 8/18/2011 | 4 | MDD, dissosiation, DID | Dry mouth, visual changes, euphoria ...eventually it made my psychosis worse though | Made me really motivated, and happy ! took away my depression but in the end wasn't the right drug for me, but I'd still recommend it ! | F | 17 | 4 weeks 10 1X day | 8/18/2011 |