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 |
| 1 | Anxiety | Zombie-state, anxiety, acidity in stomach | Didn't do anything for my anxiety. | M | 22 | 10 days | 2/1/2008 | 1 | anxiety/Bipolar | nausea,constipation, sweating, weight gain...and any other side effect listed I had! | I was on Zoloft before this and I was to mellow. The Lexapro kicked me into 5th gear but in a bad way. I had more anxiety, couldn't rest mentally or physically and had every side effect that existed. I moved on to Wellbutrin and am much happier. | F | 27 | 6 weeks | 1/31/2008 | 1 | Depression and anxiety | horrible headaches, tingling in arms and legs, aching feeling in arms and legs, increased heart rate, sleeping all the time, went from sleeping 8 hours a night to 16 hours, would wake up and immediately start crying, had repetitive suicidal thoughts which I had never ever had before starting drug, zero motivation. | I am now on month six in the process to wean myself from lexapro. I went down from 20mg to 10 mg and immediately felt better. Suicidal thinking stopped. I wasn't crying every day. However the withdrawal symptoms were worse than the side effects. I have been going down very slowly on this drug and every time I drop the dose a few mg, 3 days later I get a huge spike in anxiety and depression, aching and flu-like symptoms. It takes about 7 days to level off. I am convinced that this drug is physiologically addicting. I feel like it would be easier to get off of heroin. In two weeks I go from 2.5 to zero and I am bracing myself for the storm. This drug robbed me of a year of my life. AWFUL!!!!!!!!!! The worst thing is my Pdoc didn't seem to realize that the drug could make my anxiety and depression worse or at least didn't tell me about it. Now they are including these warnings with the prescription. Scary how little some of these docs know about the one thing they are meant to be | F | 45 | 1 days | 1/31/2008 | 1 | Panic Attacks | First day I took it I had waves of panic attacks over and over. I was scared to death! Doctor said tightness in chest, numb hands and feet, waves of fear were due to panic attacks and put me on it. Made me like a complete zombie and felt like I was high all day long. I couldn't get out complete sentences and people kept asking me if I was okay. Felt like a string was attached to the inside of my stomach and the top of my head and pulling. Jaw clenching gave me unbelievable headaches and because you can't take any ibuprofen had to take Tylonol (it will cause stomach bleeding if you use NSAIDS with this med). Stomach was tightening so tight my back was killing me. My mother has taken these meds for years and had to have stomach biopsies because she ended up with stomach polyps that were gray. They weren't cancerous but they could develop into cancer. Was diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency and was worried about thyroid problems potentially presenting (negative) so I overobsessed and sent | If you're taking this medicine for panic attacks, DO NOT take more than 5 mg at first. 10 mg set me into waves of panic attacks so bad I had to get someone to give me a couple Xanax to make them stop. Taking 5 mg now and probably going to ween myself off of these. I don't want to deal with these side effects even though everyone says they will "go away." Stomach polyps? Diarhea? Jaw clenching? Stomach pains? Forget this. | F | 30 | 8 days | 1/21/2008 | 1 | PTSD as a result of loss of my son | restlessness My blood pressure elevated immediately | F | 44 | 2 days | 1/18/2008 | 1 | Driving anxiety | While I was taking it, Lexapro helped me out a lot. After being hit by a drunk driver on the freeway, I had panic attacks when driving, but Lexapro helped. I have now weaned off of it and after almost a month off I still feel HORRIBLE!! I have these feelings in my head like a muted electrical jolt or a pulse when I move my head, and sometimes just when I move my eyes. I'm totally scared that I'm never going to feel better. I honestly wish I'd NEVER taken this drug and found some other way to deal with my anxiety attacks. Three years worth of driving is not worth what I'm going through now. I wish I knew if anyone else has had this problem when weaning off of Lexapro. | Think twice (or more than twice) and ask your doctor lots of questions. I'm not sure this drug is all it's cracked up to be. You've got to take into consideration what it's going to be like if and when you want to stop taking it. I weaned down "properly" and I still feel absolutely horrible - like I have the flu all the time and I'm in a TERRIBLE mood constantly. | F | 38 | 3 years | 1/17/2008 | 1 | depression | headaches no sexual desire | you can't do your daily sexual needs to your wife you can't shoot a load | M | 38 | 3 months | 1/12/2008 | 1 | severe aggitated depression | It made me scream, literally. | Lexapro seems to be very "activating". I was fairly agitated, but after just 2 days of it, I was pacing around the house, taking my clothes off, and screaming into pillows. It was not fun. | F | 45 | 2 days | 1/9/2008 | 1 | Anxiety | I lost so much hair it was terrible, big clots would fall down the shower ..I was more depressed I lost a ton of hair. | Never take this crap | F | 28 | 2 weeks | 1/5/2008 | 1 | anxiety atacks | sleeping 15 hours a day. Irrational mood swings. weight gain. Constant thirst. Complete loss of libido or interest in anything. | THe anxiety attacks stopped, but that is probably because I got caught living a double life from my husband. Everything else has been hell. Doctor refuses to taper me off saying the drug is harmless. I am considering tapering myself and finding another doctor. Looking back my doctor has pill for everything. | F | 56 | 3 years | 1/3/2008 | 1 | depression | Lack of energy, motivation or interest in ANYTHING | After feeling depressed for really no reason at all for several months, I finally saw a doctor. I took the first dose of Lexapro as soon as I got in my car, and I felt better just taking a step toward addressing my problem. I was shopping when it kicked in, about an hour later.I felt high at first, not too bad...then I had an uncontrollable urge to do NOTHING! I left my cart in the store and couldn't get home to my couch fast enough. I laid on the couch the rest of that day, not caring or thinking about anything. I will never take this drug again. I suppose it could be helpful if your problem is angry outbursts, but if you feel unmotivated already, as I do, this is dangerous! I'm thinking about asking my doc for Wellbutrin after doing some research, but I'm scared after my experience with this. Any advice? | F | 38 | 1 days | 12/23/2007 | 1 | For anxiety | sick to my stomach feeling after taking (would last until the afternoon) took 2 weeks to get past that. Weight gain, numb feeling, I didn't feel like myself. I'd rather have the anxiety attacks. | F | 34 | 5 months | 12/10/2007 | 1 | depression | ONE DAY AND WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE!! Took pill before bed like doctor ordered. Woke up to clenched jaw and dry mouth. Then anxiety started setting in, then after two minutes SEVERE ANXIETY, then hallucination set in like a bad hit of acid, then severe nausea, violent vomiting, intense convulsions, instant full body sweat, loss of bowel control. After expelling all body fluids I started generating lots of saliva while having drymouth. The saliva was sticky like a spider web and I had to wipe it out of my mouth with a cloth from 2AM TO 5AM. The saliva would build up inside my throat and choke me unless I spat and wiped it out every minute. | DANGEROUS........ I told my doctor and he said there are lots of drugs to try, how about lots of drugs to die. This stuff is #@#% dangerous. | M | 31 | 1 days | 11/30/2007 | 1 | schizo affective/ depression | dry mouth, flat feelings, increased appetite, gaining 50lbs over the course of 9 months, sleeping all day, always thinking about a nap, suicidal thinking | dont take this drug! it makes you feel like nothing and worthless! I attempted 4 suicides while taking this medicine!also, gained 50lbs!!! but with this drug i also took invega, which is bad, and haldol, which is the worst drug to exist!dont ever take those combination of drugs! | F | 16 | 9 months | 11/20/2007 | 1 | depression | weight gain; tired all the time; didn't help my depression; smiling was a chore; major decrease in libido | I was on this drug for 2 years. It did not help me at all. As a matter of fact, I think it made me worse. I gained 15-20 pounds in the 2 yrs on this, and felt like eating all the time. Wanted to sleep all the time, or too tired to motivate myself for anything. I switched to wellbutrin xl, and my life changed. I felt alive again, began losing wt, experienced major increase in libido. The side effects of weaning off lexapro are AWFUL! I was nauseated, extremely dizzy for 2 weeks. My brain felt like it was zapping all the time during the weaning process. It was like a poison to my body. This drug is not for everyone. | F | 41 | 2 years | 11/10/2007 | 1 | Anxiety | Dry mouth, decreased appetite not able to have an orgasm. Feeling "numb" while having sex. | This is the 1st med I have taken and for me I have not noticed any change in my mood or level of anxiety in 6 week. The side effect of not being able to have an orgasm has made me start to wean off of this medication. | F | 34 | 6 weeks | 10/22/2007 | 1 | misdiagnosed mental illness | severe nausea. Depression that I've never had before and thoughts of suicide!! I stopped it immediatly and was fine. | I had a hospitalization for sever neck pain (injury) from a dystonic reaction to reglan! So I was a little stressed out and freaked out. In the hospital the doctors start the whole "the pain is in your head BS" Well no it wasn't in my head if it was then the muscles wouldn't be hard as a rock and the percoset wouldn't have been needed every four hours. So they give me this lexapro telling me it will help me relax? So relaxing sounds nice so I take it. Never had depression or anxiety or any other mental health problem now all the sudden I want to kill myself-that was a shock so I demanded to be taken off of it-then find out later it was an antidepressant. It caused exactly what it was designed to treat! | F | 24 | 5 days | 10/19/2007 | 1 | Depression and GID (MtF) | Moderately severe headaches for the first two days. Anorgasmia after three days followed by complete loss of libido after five days. Completely screwed up my sleep, whether I took it in the morning or at night. Unusual feelings of hunger in the mornings. I expect that I might have put on weight had I not had a very predictable diet. General feeling of not being alert, but it's hard to tell whether that was directly caused by the drug itself, or by the loss of sleep. | The best thing about this drug for me was coming off it. I cold turkeyed out, had one headache and had my sex life back in two days. I feel more alert, and am sleeping better. I understand that if this drug fixes your depression then it might be worth the side-effects you experience. For me, the side-effects were more than sufficient to cause what it was suposed to aleviate. I gather that many MtF transsexuals feel anxiety about their libido and find the reduction of libido when using this drug to be a benefit. That certainly wasn't the case for me. If you have gender identity issues of any sort, I encourage you to think about the significance of your libido to you and discuss it with your doctor before taking this one. | M | 47 | 5 weeks | 10/12/2007 | 1 | Depression | severe nausa, stomach pain, dizzy, lathargic, no motivation, exteremly dialated pupils | How does anyone survive 2 weeks with side effects? I would rather be depressed!!!! I stopped taking after 3 doses and felt horrid for about 48 hrs | F | 44 | 3 days | 10/6/2007 | 1 | Depression | Nausea, dizziness, mild hallucinations, felt spacey, leg cramps, my teeth felt like they were made of metal, throat tightened, shakiness. | You probably won't feel depressed, because you are too worried about what is happening to you physically! I took the first pill at 8am with some breakfast. At 9:15 (in the middle of a business meeting) it kicked in. I felt hot, dizzy and very sick. I had to leave the room. Felt better in an hour, but basically felt like I was on acid the rest of the day (and not in a fun way). It is now the next morning and I still feel wierd. It is not fun and I have never felt this way off of one pill. Not sure if this is normal. Felt very much like my body was trying to reject the drug. I am never taking it again. I have been on other antidepressants and never felt this bad. | F | 28 | 1 days | 10/5/2007 |