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 |
| 4 | Anxiety/Depression | Since I have increased my dosage to 40mg per day it has made me feel very listless and a bit "out of it" but has settled me down a lot and helped with my anxiety. | M | 48 | 40mg 1X day | 2/16/2013 Patient History | 4 | Depression | Drastic weight gain!!!! | F | 25 | 3 years | 2/16/2013 | 3 | Depression | I started taking Lexapro a week ago to help me calm down, relax and treat my depression. I'm constable in a daze, feeling sleepy and could even compare to being high... | F | 30 | 7 days 5mg | 2/16/2013 | 5 | Anxiety ADHD | decreased sex drive, dry mouth. | M | 28 | 4 years 10-20 1X day | 2/7/2013 | 2 | Depression/Anxiety | I started at 10mg and moved to 15 mg. It did help with anxiety and depression but my mood was completely flat. Could not hardly feel anything. | I am not taking only 5mg a day and my thinking is MUCH better and my depression has not returned. I have much better memory and my concentration has returned. Coming off of Lexapro is terrible but worth it. | M | 62 | 2 years 5mg 1X day | 2/4/2013 | 5 | seasonal depression | reduced sex drive, weak / delayed orgasms. This might sound weird but I have become too "nice" while taking this medicine, I lost my edginess and aggression. Insomnia at times. Workouts are a forced issue, not enjoyable. | Without question this medicine ended my depression. I have been much happier and easier to live with. However the price you pay, is the range of normal emotions is reduced, you are "in the middle" all the time, unable to experience euphoria on the one extreme or anger at the other extreme. I have stopped taking this medication a couple times and went into a profound depression both times and went off on family members at the slightest provocation. So i'll stick with it, for now... | M | 42 | 2 years 10 mg 1X day | 1/31/2013 | 1 | GAD & depression | Cured my depression but made me fat. Withdrawl is one of the worst things I have ever experienced. | M | 30 | 8 months 10 MG | 12/18/2012 | 3 | anxiety, pain and depression | Started at 10 pmg, Felt better within a week. Stayed on 10 for 9 mos then went up to 20mg....brain fog memory loss...finally attributing to lexapro, atleast at this dosage/ Very apathetic and have gained 20lbs easily. muscle and joint pain....dunno if that is related to lexapro. Helpful with anxiety...I did not experience sex drive problem. but i am going down to 10mg again...then maybe off...Have tried a majority of these HAPPY pills, none work great and def have side effects. What now? Duno but i need my brain back!lol | F | 50 | 1.5 years 20mg 1X day | 11/28/2012 | 5 | depression | I started lexapro after years of struggling. My symptoms were headaches- almost daily and fatigue. I thought it was just from being a mom and waited years to get help. I also was feeling worried about EVERYTHING and just never felt physically well. I have been on Lexapro for 10 days now and am starting to see good results. The first week I was sleepy during the day and yawned alot. huge yawns. I also felt a bit "tipsy", like I had drank a few glasses of wine. I started taking it at night and that seemed to help. I am feeling much more energetic and stable. I'm looking forward to continue to get better. | F | 31 | 10 days 10mg 1X day | 11/26/2012 | 3 | panics and anxiety | Gaining wieghts and lack of sex drive | M | 31 | 10mg 1X day | 11/26/2012 | 5 | Severe Depression | Originally I was prescribed Zoloft for depression & anxiety attacks and was given 50mg dose from the start. Within a few hours I was trippin from the side effects. I was unable to carry on a conversation, racing thoughts, room spinning, looked like a zombie, emotionally numb, I felt i was high, nauseous for 4 days. Finally my Dr. switched me to Lexapro. The first day was great, no side effects whatsoever. Until I woke up nauseous, as soon as I ate I was fine. 2nd day: no side effects, I was social, but that night woke up at 2:15 sweating and in a terrible panic attack(not from a dream) but heart racing, swallowed breath, felt emotionally traumatized..but quickly fell back to sleep. Day 3: great! Social, happy to have company, emotionally well & stable. Again, woke up at 4am (no anxiety) for no reason but fell asleep an hour later. Over all I'd say these side effects are much easier go deal with than before & am very happy to be on the route to a steady, happy life! | F | 26 | 3 days 10 mg | 11/24/2012 | 5 | Panic, GAD, PPD, hypochondria | Tomorrow will be week 4 on this. I am NOT a med taker in the least and I actually had this bottle for a month before i gained enough courage to try it. I am so glad i did. I have always suffered from being a hypochondriac, i was really really bad! I drove myself into panic attacks and it ruled my life and it consumed my thoughts every single day!! I just recently had a baby and also have 3 other children and i couldnt even focus on them because i was so miserable & unfocused. My marriage was slowly dwindling because of myself. My constant anxiety caused numerous physical symptoms that made me think i truly had some disease regardless of tests and physicals. The first week on the med was a little rough i had a few panic attacks, was very tired during first week after i took it and my orgasms took a much longer time and didnt feel as intense. Now those have all faded and i have no more side effects except some mild sweating during the night and very very vivid dreams but nothing scary and much much more tolerable then the anxiety i was suffering. I spent weeks before trying this reading all the negative posts and things about it just being money for pharma. I also read about the withdrawals which do sound a bit scary but ill deal with that when the time comes! Right now i feel like im back to "normal" i dont have racing thoughts, i play with my kids and im enjoying life. Please give this med a chance. If anyone was scared to try meds its me! I thank god for this r | F | 27 | 4 weeks 10 | 11/19/2012 | 5 | Depression | This is great.. Felt better w/in days. Changed my life. Only side effect could be lack of libido but not sure I can blame it on drug as I am post menopausal. | F | 60 | 1 years 5mg. | 11/10/2012 | 1 | Anxiety/panic disorder | Almost no appetite whatsoever, fatigue, lethargy, trouble sleeping, no libido, constant headache | I'm only 4 days into this, and started out at the highest dose once daily, usually in the morning. It's sorta hard to explain, but I just don't feel like myself anymore even just after 4 days. I have awful fatigue and feel sluggish all the time, yet have alot of trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. Furthermore, my appetite has completely disappeared, and I haven't eaten hardly anything since I started taking it. I know there are side effects to any med at first and they'll wear off, but these seem to be more than I can handle. I think I need to drop back and punt and get back to my doctor. Everyone responds differently to medication, and I just don't like how this is making me feel. | M | 4 days 20mg 1X day | 11/4/2012 | 4 | Depression/anxiety | Switched from Prozac -immediate drop in anxiety. Some sleep disturbances after increase to 15mg, but these were coincident with an increase in major stressors so side-effect conclusions are suspect. This is my third major depression in 20 years and Lexapro is the first SSRI drug that did not require an anti-anxiety pill concurrently! | No weight loss or gain, no agitation or other typical side effects. Starting and dose increases caused sleepiness during the day for a week which is odd because my night sleep became interrupted, hence my question about the cause of interrupted sleep. | M | 59 | 3 months 20 1X day | 11/2/2012 | 5 | Bipolar Disorder | none | great medicine that helped with depression and social withdrawal | M | 25 | 2 years 20 1X day | 10/23/2012 | 4 | Panic Disorder/Anxiety | Some sleepiness first month or so. | Lexapro has been magnificent at controlling my anxiety and panic attacks with virtually no side effects. | F | 48 | 5 years 30 mg 1X day | 10/17/2012 | 3 | Depression, anxiety, insomnia | Initially somewhat "high" for about six hours after taking it, long-term effects on sex drive, weight gain, fidgety, SSRI discontinuation symptoms when stopped | I took this as Cipralex, after being on trazodone and Klonopin for sometime to help with anxiety, depression and dysphoria/social anxiety. I took it in the morning, and it was the first SSRI I tried after a few years on trazodone, Remeron and some years ago, Elavil. At first it seemed to make me feel high as a side-effect, tho this disappeared after a week or two. The antidepressant effect kicked in after about two weeks and I was much improved in mood and energy. Sadly, after a while it destroyed my sex drive though, and eventually the antidepressant effect seemed to wear off. It did nothing for my insomnia either, even when my mood was improved. Quit cold turkey and had SSRI discontinuation syndrome. Not pleasant. | M | 42 | 6 months 10 1X day | 10/17/2012 | 3 | Anxiety/Major Depression | None really | Lexapro is a good drug for anxiety. It is way better than Paxil. I didn't really feel many benefits for my depression though. I have recently switched to Cymbalta but I would go back to Lexapro if need be. | F | 25 | 4 months 20 MG 1X day | 10/15/2012 | 1 | cronic depression/ panic anxiety | wieght gain, no orgasms, no imotion what so ever, unable to enjoy anything. headack, stomack problems. | I took lexapro for about a year it helped at first because i nolonger felt the negative feelings. the problem was i didnt feel anything at all. i couldnt creat or write anymore. It was almost as it i lost the ablity to see color in life and simply lost the reason to live it anymore. I was just a plastic person getting fat. I couldnt sleep started to see things in the dark that i really hope wasnt there. This medication works for some but for me it was like i looked better to everone else because i was no longer a problem to society but to me, i was dieing. I wanted to be me just better not this. so i stopped taking it and started a different one Pristiq I am glad to day i am alive and feel like a new women. | F | 24 | 8 months 20mg 1X day | 10/1/2012 |