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 | severe depression | extreme lethargy. and it wasn't even all that effective | my doctor must have been getting some great perks from the drug company as he kept trying to push it on me despite my repeated telling him how awful it was. | M | 26 | 1 months | 4/24/2006 | 1 | Anxiety/Depression | Within half an hour of taking my first dose of 10 mg, I began to feel dazed and as if I was high on pot.I developed this strange intense headache. It burned from my sinuses all the way to my upper back and shoulders.It is still burning right now.I feel nauseated, and my mouth is very dry, heart is beating fast, and I had diarrea. It has only been 7 hours since I took Lexapro. | I chose Lexapro because it is supposed to help with anxiety and depression symptoms. I am concerned about the immediate and uncomfortable side-effects. I think I'll go to the gym tomorrow and frequent a health food store in search of a natural alternative. | F | 40 | 1 days | 3/16/2006 | 1 | panic disorder | increased anxiety, blurred vision, "drunk" feeling, headache, dry mouth, insomnia, severe & deep bruising for no reason, tremors that escalated with cont. use | This drug was a NIGHTMARE for me. I felt worse on it than I had before starting. I always felt drunk and my pupils were huge. My vision was blurry and my head hurt almost all the time. I had trouble sleeping & staying asleep even though I was always tired. I would wake up with huge, deep bruises all over my legs and arms where no trauma had occurred. The worst for me was the TREMORS. After about a week, I noticed the my right hand shook constantly and visibly. By the end of the second week, I experienced frightening episode of full-body tremors -- I was shaking all over and could not stop. It was like cold chills without being cold and it was terrifying. According to the manufacturer, this is a rare side effect, but I know of three other women who have had the same experience. I got off of Lexapro immediately and began feeling better within 24 hrs. | F | 36 | 2 weeks | 2/19/2006 | 1 | Anxiety, Mild Depression | Extreme Apathy; Profound Hair Loss; Weight Gain & abdominal bloating; Complete and total loss of Sexual Self. | F | 47 | 8 months | 1/11/2006 | 1 | Depression/Anxiety | Heart burn | I had to take a heart burn relief medication each day I took Lexapro. Will try another anti-depressant medication. | F | 24 | 5 days | 1/6/2006 | 1 | anxiety | Zero sex drive, inability to orgasm, no appetite, and depression | My doctor prescribed it for generalized anxiety and it worked well at first. Then, I suddenly and bizarrely fell into a severe depressive spiral with obsessive thoughts of suicide. There was no joy in my life and I felt like crying all the time. I'm starting Wellbutrin tomorrow and hoping I'm able to enjoy life again. | F | 38 | 2 months | 1/3/2006 | 1 | Anxiety | While on the drug - extreme sleepiness (slept an avarage of 13 hours a night while I was on it), inability to wake up in the morning, always wanting to just be in bed; feeling unmotivated; vivid nightmares; irritability; violent thoughts. While getting off it (quit cold turkey) - deep depression with suicidal thoughts for 5 days | THE ABSOLUTE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE. I would not recommend this drug to anyone! It didn't help my anxiety at all while I was on it, and had terrible side effects. After two weeks, my doctor wanted to switch me to Effexor since Lexapro wasn't working, so I quit cold turkey, and had the worst five days of my life (extreme depressive state) which unfortunately, I had not been warned about by my doctor. I flushed all the drugs down the toilet and would never try another antidepressant again - so not worth it. | F | 24 | 15 days | 12/30/2005 | 1 | Anxiety, depression | GAINED ONE POUND A WEEK for six months. Yep, 30 POUNDS. Been off of it for eight months, now bigger, have high BP and pre-diabetes because of the weight gain. I want to sue. | Before I got any fatter, I stopped taking it and my metabolism is MESSED UP. I eat so much less than I used to, and still can't seem to lose the weight I gained while on Lexapro. I'd rather be normal sized and anxious than overweight, taking BP meds and insulin medication!!!!! | F | 34 | 6 months | 12/27/2005 | 1 | depression and anxiety | I was just depressed. When I started taking lexapro, I had the symptoms of bipolar. Half of the day feeling so good like I took cocaine, having inability to concentrate and study; the rest of the day feeling suicidal. | The only thing which was not so terrible for me about this drug as I wouldn't say about the other pshychotic drugs is that I didn't have any withdrawals after stopping taking it. The only thing everyone suffering from depression should know befor taking any antidepressant is that if you start taking this drug it doesn't completely mean that your depression, suicidal thoughts and anxiety will go away, in many cases it comes back or even worsens while taking a drug. | F | 20 | 7 days | 12/21/2005 | 2 | help depression | i am on a benzo for sleep. it had made me depressed after long term use sadly i never knew about them. given Lexapro. felt better but afrer eating kept falling asleep.sitting diwn 1 to 3 hrs. i stopped it. but the issues from the benzo (still on 10mg)*came back one being reducing benz caused my stomach to not digest properly ans pain eating worse. So took Lexepro again but its made me weak in my arms legs getting up and i can barely walk. this didnt happen before. im still diwn and still have gastritis. Im sure its afecting the benzo as my calf muscles ache badly and im back to digest issues . im stuck nit niw knowing whats causing what. im can walk sometimes waking then go all weak again and sooooo tired. its probably affecting the benzo as these are some side effects of reducing a benzo. Email if anyone had these issues | F | 74 | 5 months 10mg 1X day | 5/21/2023 | 2 | Anxiety and depression | While adjusting to it i was ready to write my will, and i started on the lowest dose to have any effect, 5mg. Pupils extremely dilated to the point it scared me to look at myself in the mirror. Full body migraines kind of like the ones you get from COVID when you feel like your skin hurts on you, but this was just for one day and then I felt nothing of the sort. Nowadays it just makes me very drowsy and makes me eat twice as much | I take it at night and it knocks me out by 12 pm Otherwise does nothing of note to make me feel better | F | 19 | 1 months 10 mg 1X day | 5/19/2023 | 2 | Anxiety and depression | While adjusting to it i was ready to write my will, and i started on the lowest dose to have any effect, 5mg. Pupils extremely dilated to the point it scared me to look at myself in the mirror. Full body migraines kind of like the ones you get from COVID when you feel like your skin hurts on you, but this was just for one day and then I felt nothing of the sort. Nowadays it just makes me very drowsy and makes me eat twice as much | I take it at night and it knocks me out by 12 pm Otherwise does nothing of note to make me feel better | F | 19 | 1 months 10 mg 1X day | 5/19/2023 | 2 | Anxiety after daughters death | Horrible restless legs & insomnia | F | 66 | 8 days 5 1X day | 8/27/2022 | 2 | Anxiety and depression | More anxiety, EPS (movement disorders), feels like I'm on caffeine when I'm not. | The days I would forget to take this drug were more relaxed and more productive at work than the days I was usually on it. Very counter productive. Went to the emergency room for withdrawal symptoms. Could not stop shaking, feeling cold, sky high anxiety. | F | 38 | 11 months 20 mg 1X day | 11/27/2021 | 2 | Anxiety | Waking with burning pain in shoulders and body and racing heart, unable to sleep for longer than 4 hours, tense headache, having to nap in day to make up sleep. Been taking for 6 weeks still waiting for it to work on my anxiety after losing a sibling. | I'm hoping it may start to improve my anxiety and sleep | F | 72 | 42 days 5mg 1X day | 7/7/2021 | 2 | Anxiety | Nausea | Had significant nausea for the first week. Once the med started working, I became a zombie. I was certainly calm, but to the point of not caring about anything. I had almost no reaction to anything going on around me. It was like my personality had been removed. I felt as if I was just sitting in my body watching a movie I wasn't involved in. I quit dreaming - I would go to sleep at night and what seemed like five minutes later it was morning. It did work for my anxiety, but the other effects were not worth it for me. | M | 56 | 6 months 10mg 1X day | 5/12/2021 | 2 | Depression n Anxiety | For me has not been a good experience, but pls realize this is my reaction. I think it's important to remember that what is negative for some is very positive for others. I have had migraine like headaches, ear pain, jaw n neck pain to point of seeing oral surgeon n family doctor thinking infection, teeth... finally called my psychiatrist n was told , not a common side effect but it is definitely one. I'm now n process of weaning off. I do well on RemRon, w Depakote at bedtime. I wish u all well n it's many times trial n error. But there is another side to depression, u will get there. | F | 63 | 3 weeks 10 1X day | 3/17/2021 | 2 | Depression anxiety | Nausea, | Not really helping with anxiety or depression. Barely holding steady. But at this time I don't want to risk changing meds. | F | 68 | 6 months 20 mg 1X day | 1/6/2021 | 2 | Anxiety and Panic Attacks | Dilated pupils, insomnia, panic attacks, increased sweating, shaking, difficulty urinating, bowel changes. | I had to stop after a week as I couldn't bare the side effects anymore. I probably slept an equivalent of 10 hours in 6 days. I had panic attacks every night, compared to the one once a month I was having not on this medication. I took this medication years ago and my body tolerated it alot better. By the 5th day, I did experience a decrease in anxiety at work, however I felt foggy and out of it. So that, on top of all the other side effects, it was not worth it to me. | F | 24 | 1 weeks 5 mg 1X day | 12/7/2020 | 2 | anxiety, depression | cold sweats, extreme lethargy, loss of appetite, blurry vision, slurry speech and slowed thinking, complete lack of motivation, anorgasmia | i just cant seem to respond to SSRIs though i suspect undiagnosed innatentive ADD | M | 33 | 5 days 5-10mg 1X day | 11/28/2020 |