LEXAPRO Reviews (ESCITALOPRAM OXALATE)

Average Rating: 3.2 (2093 Ratings)

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LEXAPRO  (ESCITALOPRAM OXALATE):  Escitalopram is used to treat depression and anxiety. It works by helping to restore the balance of a certain natural substance (serotonin) in the brain. Escitalopram belongs to a class of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI). It may improve your energy level and feelings of well-being and decrease nervousness.    (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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 1  major depression weight gain, panic attack, lack of vaginal lubrication, frequent anxiety, dizziness When I first started taking this, I thought it was beginning to help me, but later realised I didn't ever feel any different. I think my initial perception of improvement in my depression was a subconcious reaction to the fact that I was taking and SSRI. Like, "I'm taking antidepressants, I must be getting better." I started to notice all the side effects about a month in. I started to have anxiety attacks/feelings of hyperactivity where I literally had to get a paper bag and sit cross legged on my couch to avoid fulfilling my urge to break things or just run around aimlessly. I also ended up gaining about 20 pounds F 18 5 months
2/10/2007
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 1  Depression and Anxiety Disorder Loss of concentration, constant emotional and physical numbness, most of the time it felt like i was floating not walking, dizziness, horrific nightmares, insomnia, loss of any motivation, loss of brain control... my mind felt like it wasn't my own and someone else was controlling my every thought and movement, increased suicidal thoughts, increased self-destructive behaviors, etc. My experience was hell. I felt like a zombie and that i wasn't even myself. While on the pill, i was so numb that i wished i could be sad again if it meant i could feel anything. I felt like i was brainwashed. It was a very uncomfortable feeling so i got off the pill. Be careful with any antidepressants and keep a log of how you feel each day and if your side effects increase and get worse, get off the pill immediatly! F 19 3 months
2/9/2007
 1  Premenstural Depression 1. After two to three hours vomit. 2. Stiff muscles (Lack of oxygen?) 3. Spacey, out of sync with time (as in Where did that tree come from? What am I doing?) 4. Weird, (as in How did that tree get there?). 5. Weak muscles 6. Can’t catch breath 7. Listless 8. Unmotivated 9. Difficulty getting moving 10. Reaction time slowed, [as in Put your hand on your solar plexus (Huh? What? Hand?)] 11. Forgetful, stupid (it’s Sunday, right?) 12. Depressed (as in What’s the use?). Works on 30% of the people who take it after eight weeks. After eight weeks of the above I sincerely doubt that anybody taking lexapro can know which way is up, much less notice a decrease in depression. F 51 3 days
1/21/2007
 1  Depression Took a while to have an effect on mood obviously,but side-effects alarming:sudden migraines which I had had very infrequently before. Very big increase in blood pressure which I had never experienced before. Have your blood pressure checked even if like me, you have never had a problem with it you may be in for a nasty surprise! M 46 6 months
1/13/2007
 1  anxiety Headache, sinus problems, night sweats, increased anxiety, palpatations and brain fog. This medication was a nightmare for me. F 33 12 days
1/5/2007
 1  panic attacks bizarre, vivid dreams, memory loss, rampant behavioral change between letargy, excitability, depression, and plotted against- all in the same day. Bizarre reaction to alcohol- did not feel drunk, or even that I had had anything to drink- can't even begin to explain what this stuff is like with alcohol, making bizarre and irrational comments in conversations with other people that are totally out of context. My assistant thinks I'm nuts, my boss is coming down, I make inappropriate and poorly advised comments to people in conversation and never did that before, I feel seperated from myself and can feel anywhere from totally high in a sped-up way, to tragically hopeless in a few hours, I have outstanding orgasms, and intense sex drive. In that respect (and that respect only) I feel like I'm 14 again. But I have paid a huge cost to have a higher sex drive. This has done nothing to help anxiety, and the memory of my former self is a faint relic that is rapidly giving way to a new personality that I can't stand. M 27 5 weeks
1/4/2007
 1  Anxiety, work stress Took 10 mg at night. I had been on Celexa before and the doctor told me this had less side effects. The only side effect I wasn't crazy about on Celexa was the weight gain of 30 lbs in 3 years. I took it at night and went to sleep in an upbeat mood. Woke up around 2 am and my skin was on fire. My head was racing, heart pounding, skin crawling, very bad diarhea, dry heaving, face was green. Felt like I may need to go to the hospital. Couldn't go back to sleep and when I would dose off I would have really vivid dreams. My father took Prozac one time and told me that is what happened to him. If your doctor gives this to you for anxiety take it early in the morning and with food. AND MAKE SURE YOU START OFF ON TEH SMALLEST DOSE POSSIBLE. I WOULD NEVER TAKE THIS DRUG AGAIN BUT HAVE HAD GREAT RESULTS WITH IS COUSIN CELEXA. MY psychiatrist said Celexa had an additional isomer that is more calming. F 27 1 days
12/15/2006
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12/5/2006
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11/18/2006
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11/12/2006
 1  Depression/PCOD Headache, Jaw clenching, nausea, worse depression, suicidal thoughts, impulsive behavior, difficulty reaching orgasm, apathy, flash anger, hallucinations (both auditory and visual), confusion about time/place/people, tiredness but unable to sleep, made me ramble (almost like I had no internal monologue). I have been taking lexapro for 1 week and This medication has seperated me from reality. I feel like I'm watching myself from a different demension. The world looks strange and patchy. Somethings are fuzzy and some things arn't. before the medication I was a depressed and saw small insect every once in a while. Now on the medication (10mg) I see faces in cars, the walls to my cubicle are made of skin, the music I listen to at work is telling me to kill myself...I forget where I am sometimes. Yesterday (10/31/06) I thought it was the year 2001. It made me impulsive. I had long nails and I saw they were dirty and couldn't keep them clean so I bit them all off...then cut off the skin on my fingertips because it wouldn't come clean either. I was speaking with my father one day and saw his face as a monster from the movie Pulse. The doctor said its going to get worse before it gets better...I miss my bugs... F 20 1 weeks
11/1/2006
 1  depression and anxiety vomiting, diarhea, confusion, hot cold flashes irregular heart beat.....shall I go on I will never take any prescried drug for depression ever. F 31 3 days
10/27/2006
 1  Depression, anxiety Extreme fatigue and day-time sleepiness. Lack of eneregy and concentration. Even drinking 3-4 cups of coffee with 150 mg wellbutrin and 200 mg of provigil could not prevent me from feeling "sleepy". This med is complete crap! Stay away from it! M 28 4 months
10/23/2006
 1  Anxiety / Hypertension Warm in the face, nervouse, nausea, horrible feeling. Smoke a joint, take a Xanax, drink a beer. Stay away from this medicine, it won't cure your life problems. Job got you down? find a new job. Spouse is a bitch? run away from him / her. Financial problems? file for bankruptcy. Pills like Lexapro, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Zoloft don't help. They all have nasty side effects which to me don't outway any anxiety I have. M 40 1 days
10/18/2006
 1  psychotic depression none S!@#iest thing I can imagine too cure anyone. Felt no side effects and absolutely NO improvement in mood, anxiety, etc. Might as well have been taking nothing, which would have probably been better since it would've costed less and have given me more to hope for as far as SSRIs are concerned. Generally just pissed off at myself, my psychiatrist, my psychologist, and anyone else who cares this little about my well being. To top it all off, they told me it would take a year AT LEAST to feel any improvement and have recently found out it takes as little as 3 freagin weeks. Thanks for nothing, "experts" :(... M 19 6 months
10/10/2006
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 1  Depression Disorientation, confusion, dizziness, nausea, loss of energy, extreme dry mouth. I've tried other antidepressants without much success. Paxil, for example, did nothing for me though I was on it for over a year. My depression was mostly situational so I just stopped taking the drugs and, when my situation improved, so did my depression. However, recently, I've had some pretty bad,life-altering events so here I am, depressed again. My doctor felt my current depression is severe enough to insist that I try some other, newer drugs. Despite the fact that, in tests, Lexapro had few side effects and was well tolerated by most people, my experience with it was horrible. Though its effects aren't supposed to be evident until 1-3 weeks, I had an almost instantaneous adverse reaction. It made me almost feel drunk but without the good feeling that normally accompanies that, it was a sick, gnawing, feeling. I felt totally drained of energy, lethargic, confused, dizzy, impaired motor-skills, nauseated, buzzed, and totally out of it. There's no way I could function in that con M 51 3 days
10/10/2006
 1  G.A.D. weight gain (30lbs in 3 months), no sex drive, vivid dreams, panic attacks, mood swings. i was on lexapro 10mg for six months for mild anxiety. within the first 3 months i gained 30lbs. by the 5th month i was having panic attacks and the worst anxiety i ever had in my life. i had the worst withdrawl ever. brainshocks, headaches, i couldnt concentrate on anything, intense mood swings, constant crying and panic attacks (which i never had before lexapro). i've been off it for over a year now and still have horrible panic attacks on a daily basis and can barely leave the house. i went to the doctor today and am now trying cymbalta and also niravam .5mg. hopefully this works better than lexapro. i wouldnt recommend lexapro to anyone. F 23 6 months
10/5/2006
 1  Depression WEIGHT GAIN! Hello, one of the reason's I'm depressed in the first place. Constant sinus problem, but hey I got real good at predicting the weather. Foot cramps, joint pain and lock jaw, like you wouldn't believe, felt like I just came from the Dentist and had my mouth pried open for hours. Hot flashes, and I'm don't think I'm pre menapausal. Spacey vision? extreme fatique, another reason why I was depressed in the first place, this just made it worse. I am VERY slowly weaning myself off. Was up to 15mgs and now down to 2.5 mgs and soon nada! Yea! The first Month I was on 10 mgs, but felt it wasn't doing anything, except in the first week, I felt dizzy, but doc said that was a figment of my imagination, "since it take atleast a month to work"... after a month up'ed dose to 15 mg with the intentions of going to 20mgs, but then the side effects kicked in... and I became tired of being a zombie. It did help my compulsiveness, I was easier to get a long with due to the "Zombie" effect and I didn't cry as much. But the reason I started taking this drug was to treat my depression, which consist of fatique, and massive weight gain and this drug just added to the problem! of course I didn't really care while I was on it... I was told I should take welbutrim XL, but now I don't know if I want to "experiment" with these drugs at all! I'm working on the hormone side of things with an Endo Dr. and hopefully wi F 39 3 months
9/21/2006
 1  Anxiety Burning all over my body from head to toe..Felt like there was electricity running through me..Everything was numb and just felt weird...Had a really hard time controlling it but eventually did ... Feeling like I was crazy...Nausea..Diarrhea...Hot flashes then cold ...Light-headed...Racing heart..Loss of appetite...Jitters/Shaky/Twitching/Fluttery .. Anxiety/Panic attacks worsened It was prescribed to me yesterday - 10mg Lexapro...I Took it last night around 7:30...Went to bed by 11pm, but I was ok .. Felt just a little twitchy...Woke up at 1am just feeling really hot so I took the covers off...All of a sudden I felt myself getting hotter and hotter...Eventually I felt like I was burning up..Like I had 105 fever and was gonna burst into flames...My heart was racing and I got really nauseas...Thought I had everything wrong with me .. My tongue and other body parts felt numb...Had no idea that medicine thats supposed to help anxiety would actually cause an attack...Eventually I calmed myself down and then had really bad bouts of diarrhea...i also felt really light-headed and I kept getting hot/cold and occasionally felt like I was burning ...It is now the next day at 1pm ... and I still feel jittery...I only slept 2 hours last night and I dont feel tired...I have no appetite and I feel like I got hit by a car...Everything hurts.. I dont know when this is going to F 24 1 days
9/19/2006
 1  Fatique & Depression Weight gain, dizziness, constipation, muscle cramping, somnolence (the desire to sleep all the time), apathy, reduced metabolism, decreased libido. The worst part about this drug is the long term irreversible effects and "discontinuation syndrome" (withdrawal symptoms). I've learned, unfortuantely too late, that longterm use of this drug causes your brain receptors to shrivel into corkscrews. Once you stop taking Lexapro, the receptors don't repair themselves and can't function properly so you end up with "brain shivers". I've been off of Lexapro for a full month now and am still experiencing these brain shivers, along with several other withdrawal symptoms. Some studies are comparing the brain shivers to epileptic abscence seizures. Other withdrawal symptoms include dizziness, nausea, insomnia, restlessness, anger and outrage that your medical doctor prescribed something to you that causes brain damage and weight gain without informing you. Anything that has withdrawal symptoms that last more than a month should not be on the market!! F 42 13 months
9/15/2006

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