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 |
| 2 | Depression | Extreme sleepiness and apathy. Difficulty waking up in the morning. Reduced dosage but still feeling tired all the time. Decreased sex drive and difficulty ejaculating. Vivid long dreams and night sweats. Weight gain. | Went to Lexapro after Celexa didn't seem to work. I don't think Lexapro reduced my depression much so will try something else. | M | 49 | 6 months 20mg 1X day | 9/8/2010 | 2 | headaches | A little weight gain | I just finished weaning off of Lexapro, and it was horrible. I felt terrible for close to 2 weeks. I will never take this medication again for this reason. The medication was fine while I was on it, but coming off of it was not fun. | F | 37 | 6 months 20mg 1X day | 8/27/2010 | 2 | Depression and Anxiety | More irratible. Total loss of sex drive. Loss of appetite. Burning sensations. Increased anxiety. | Doc started me on 10 mg of Lexapro for depression and anxiety. To be fair, some people say that it works wonders for them, but it was a real nightmare for me. Almost immediate loss of sex drive. Within 15 minutes of taking one the nausea set in and never let up. It made me foggy and emotionally distant. Seemed to make my OCD worse. Could not get horrible thoughts out of my head. Increased sweating and hot flashes were unbearable. Intense burning in the soles of my feet. Total loss of appetite to the point where everthing I ate just seemed to get bigger the more I chewed it. Lost 10 lbs quickly. By the evening of day 5 I was almost in full blown panic attack. I went back to the doc and he switched me to Prozac and Klonopin. After I took one dose of Prozac I noticed right away that there was no nausea. Soon after I ate a cheeseburger and had no problems tasting it or swallowing it. Loved every bite. Ate breakfast this morning just fine. Hot flashes and feet burning have dissapated and are almost gone. All summed up Lexapro was horrible for me. To soon to tell about Prozac after only one dose, but the Klonopin worked well immediately for GAD. Already feel calmer and better. Placebo? Maybe. Who cares. I'll take a placebo that works over Lexapro anyday. Hope Prozac is the stuff for me. | M | 42 | 5 days 10 1X day | 8/18/2010 | 2 | depression | lethargic, weepy. | F | 45 | 2 months 20mg 1X day | 7/20/2010 | 2 | depression/ anxiety | I experienced extreme sweating, rapid weight gain and food cravings, lethargic, emotional imbalance and inability to get excited or laugh about things. I am weaning myself off and have already began to notice a lessening of symptoms. While I still struggle with depression, I am attempting to curb it through diet and exercise. I hope to be Lexapro free within the next two weeks! | F | 26 | 1 years 20 mg 1X day | 7/14/2010 | 2 | Depression / Fatigue | Dizziness and Very Tired even if taken at night. | Maybe it would work for you but it was too sedating and made me dizzy. | M | 28 | 7 days 10 1X day | 6/27/2010 | 2 | depression and anxiety | sleepiness | This drug helped a lot with my anxiety, but after a while it seemed to worsen my depression. I felt vague and weepy and had no motivation. The withdrawal was not that bad, though. | F | 44 | 5 weeks 20mg 1X day | 6/11/2010 | 2 | Anxiety | Took it for anxiety, but became very apathetic. Extemely hard time getting up in the morning. Didn't want to do anything Usually could not sleep with the indigestion it caused. No sex drive either even when taking Ginko. Tried the rest of these SSRIs and none worked. Wellbutrin was the best, but the anxiety was awful | F | 40 | 3 months 5mg 1X day | 5/31/2010 | 2 | Anxiety & OCD | My opinon is that I first experienced a burning/cold feeling in my nose and eyes, headache, and stomach ache. That went away after a few weeks. Now I am having very dry, itchy skin and a bloody nose. | I keep hoping it will start helping me a little more. | 36 | 4 months 10 mg 1X day | 5/12/2010 | 2 | Adjustment disorder | Twitching, rashes, breathlessness, waking up at night, heart pains, headaches, giddiness, weakening of body, urine retention | Uncontrollable twitching was terrible. Lasted for 3 days when I took the 10mg everyday.. hoping it would go away by itself but it didn't. Luckily my doctor stopped my medication. Now I am taking Hydroxyzine, which at least only causes me headache so far. | F | 24 | 3 weeks 10mg 1X day | 4/21/2010 | 2 | GAD | I have been taking Lexapro for a full year now, and abruptly stopped taking it 10 days ago. I couldn't continue with the drug. It helped me with the general level of anxiety that I fear. I avoid conflicts because they stress me out, and with Lexapro, I would never feel stressed and stopped over thinking things and processing them in my head. This initially seemed like a good effect, as I feel completely "sheltered" from the world behind s Lexapro. However, I couldn't feel anything. I stopped caring about just about everything, felt bored and uninterested most of the time and didn't have any interest in my life of myseld. I also felt so scatter brained that I couldn't get anything done. I finally decided that enough was enough. | F | 40 | 1 years 10mg 1X day | 4/21/2010 | 2 | Anxiety and Depression | The only side effect I experienced was delayed ejaculation. Effexor caused impotence too, so Lexapro was not as bad in this regard. | I took 10mg of Lexapro for two weeks and have been on 20mg for the past three weeks. I've noticed no benefit whatsoever. Lexapro is my eighth antidepressant. Effexor has been the only one that has ever worked for me, but it continually loses its effectiveness after months of use. It's hard to believe there's only one out there that works for me. I'm trying Prozac next and I hope to have more luck with it. | M | 33 | 5 weeks 20mg 1X day | 4/13/2010 | 2 | Depression | jaw clenching at night, teeth grinding, nausea, constipation, food cravings, weight gain, total loss of sex drive, inability to O, insomnia, loss of taste | I will be asking my doctor to try something else on my next appointment. My DH says he can tell my moods are better, but I am making an extreme effort to be more pleasant around my family (I didn't realize how horrible I was before). I do not feel any better, I still have anxiety, severe foul moods, complete negative outlook on life. I can not see that this drug has helped much and I am not willing to continue given the side effects I am experiencing. I've always had somewhat of a sweet tooth, but now I crave peanut butter cups with a vengance- it is the only thing that still tastes good to me. But, I am also eating like crazy. If I let myself get hungry, then I get nauseated. I have gained 10 lbs in 1 month, and am terrified it will continue. | F | 36 | 4 weeks 10 1X day | 4/8/2010 | 2 | anxiety | Abnormal alcohol craving and weight gain | Plz be careful with this drug..loved it when I first starting taking it. After 2 years and 50 lbs later i hated it. Made me crave alcohol. Almost costed me a 14 yr marriage. Makes you not care about anything, and made my liver ache!! | F | 34 | 2 years 20 1X day | 4/5/2010 | 2 | anxiety, focus | Extreme tiredness, harder to concentrate | I was taking this medication to help with the symptoms of menopause ie. terrible anxiety, losing focus, feeling of impending doom and lack of motivation. It didn't help though. It seems like it made things worse. I'm starting wellbutrin today. Hope it works better. | F | 51 | 3 days | 1/26/2010 | 2 | Depression | Problems with memory. Inability to focus/concentrate. | F | 66 | 7 weeks | 12/17/2009 | 2 | For Anxiety Induced NAUSEA | Dry Mouth, 6 hr erections. | Has anyone else suffered from CHRONIC nausea for many years. I have had this condition for 6 years and have taken Lexapro 10-20mg for 4 of them. Cured the tears from the most uncomfortabel feeling in the world ut not alleviated the core symptom of feeling like chucking (worse in the mornings). | M | 45 | 4 years | 11/30/2009 | 2 | ocd | none | It didn't really do anything for me | F | 25 | 3 months | 11/20/2009 | 2 | Anxiety / Stess | 20 mg. Loss of appetite, nausea, diarrhea, mild head aches, restlessness, loss of libido, intolerance to heat, night sweats, vivid dreams. I'm on my third week and all of the above have gotten much better. | Do NOT drink in excess with this medication. I was alone this past Saturday night and had about 3 to 4 glasses of wine while watching a movie. I had a what I call a mental breakdown. I felt compelled to bang my head on the wall continuosly. This sounds kind of funny but it did happen. I called my GF in a panic but, she managed to calm me down she was close to calling 911. Talk about total loss of control. | M | 36 | 3 weeks | 10/12/2009 | 2 | Anxity/Depression | Foggyness,painful muscle tightness,constipation,weight gain,dizzieness,headache,sweating,skin rash pimple like sores on my scalp very painful. | This was a mood stabilizer I was mellow but intense side effects I could not handle I was on this for two months and and gained 18 pds when I tried to get off it cold turkey (Big mistake) I should have tapered off slowly I had veritgo and shakes for two days after stopping this drug on the third day I took a pill and it all went away so slowly weaned off and went on Welbutrin XR been on this for a week and so far I feel great. | F | 44 | 2 months | 10/7/2009 |