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 |
| 5 | PTSD | None | My lifesaver | F | 64 | 10 years 10mg | 9/10/2016 | 5 | Depression | Tried to stop taking for awhile and the side effects were really horrible...felt like electric shocks going through my body and i had low energy for 2months Soo..I started back with my dosage and I felt 100% | Lexapro helps me function on a daily bases...I cannot live without it...no side effects only when I stop taking my dose | F | 50 | 3 years 10mg | 8/10/2016 | 5 | IBS,anxiety,stress,light depression | The only problem with this medicine is makes me a bit tired,but I swear this side effect I can deal with any day rather than to be like crazy. It is very goooood. | Amazing pills. | M | 29 | 2 months 10 mg | 6/25/2016 | 5 | Anxiety, panic attacks, OCD | Slight nausea the first week (transition period) | Really helped me. I had chronic anxiety and would have panic attacks, random crying spells, migraines from the stress and vomiting due to the anxiety. Pretty much since taking this pill I noticed a HUGE improvement in my daily life. I still have worries but it is about normal things. I rarely get migraines now, nor have I vomited from stress in months. I also sleep way better at night. I haven't had any side effects apart from the first week. | F | 22 | 6 months 10mg 1x D | 6/4/2016 | 5 | Bipolar type 2 | Nausea (particularly in the 3hr period after taking the dose) Headspins Tiredness (10+ hours of sleep a night is not enough) | Feel so much better within myself. The side effects do suck, but worth it to be 'normal'. Started on 5mg, went up to 20mg at one point, but now happily sitting at 10mg. | F | 32 | 3 years 10MG 1X day | 4/27/2016 | 5 | Depression, Anxity | Been a great help, way better than anything else I tried. | F | 57 | 3 years 10mg 1X day | 4/18/2016 | 5 | anxiety panic attacks | decrease sex drive slightly elevated afp (9) and tsh(6) | M | 43 | 4 years 10 1X day | 4/14/2016 | 5 | Panic attacks | Initially had insomnia, loss of appetite, increased anxiety. | Having great success with escitalopram for panic and anxiety! My symtoms have improved tremendously in the past few months after panic attacks had started to ruin my life. I sought help quickly because I recognized I needed it. Have never taken meds before and was quite scared...but was more afraid of the anxiety! First 10 days were difficult with increased anxiety, insomnia and loss of appetite. Thereafter, I noticed subtle improvements each day, and now at 3 months I feel normal again....sleeping and eating well with no anxiety! | F | 53 | 3 months 10 mg. | 4/3/2016 | 5 | Panic disorder, depression | Exhaustion was bad enough that I switched to taking it before bed. Would fall asleep for a couple hours in the middle of the day without warning, like I was in a coma. | Worked like a miracle then stopped. Adding Buspar seems to have helped. | F | 40 | 5 years 20 1X day | 12/21/2015 | 5 | Anxiety depression from bully at wo | Sweats at first but not anything compared to bully at work. RELIEF, saved me COST - HAD TO LIVE ON RAMEN SOUP 230.00 a month | Went on genetic and HOLY GOD VERY VERY PAINFUL!!!! Generic sucks and I'm 62 and do not usually talk like this HURTS SO BAD -had to go back to brand and give up eating SO SAD--- GO USA HOME OF The FREE HA!!!! | F | 60 | 1 years 20 | 12/16/2015 | 5 | Post pardum depression and MDD | Hot, dizzy, foggy, kind of nauseated for about 6 hours after ingestion... Make sure you eat with it. I found eating. For breakfast, eggs and meat, too much protein made the fx worse, good robust vegetables and soup for the side effects. No weight gain....but then relief. I had relief of some mdd and ppd symptoms within 24 hours. | Saved my life. That is all. Do not give up. 20 mg with talk therapy. Upped to 30 or 40 once, same side effects but more dumbed down, slow, emotionally less which at the time was fine when severe mdd or ppd. But i like feelings so 20 mg with talk therapy. Only had side effects initally or if i forgot for a few days or changed dose. | F | 31 | 1 years 20 | 11/24/2015 | 5 | Depression, panic attacks | I was having panic attacks 2-3 times a week. They became so severe that they interfered with school, work, and my social life. I became afraid to leave my house. Lexapro helped so much! My depression was also helped a bit. | this medication mostly helped with anxiety. Only a minor effect on depression. | F | 25 | 1 years 30 MG | 11/20/2015 | 5 | Bipolar II, GAD | While going on or changing doses: nights sweats, vivid sometimes disturbing dreams, dry mouth. Lasting side effects: decreased libido, decreased lubrication during sex, inability to achieve orgasm/decreased sensation during orgasm. | This medication was a God-send. For a long time, I dealt with no sex life simply because Lexapro, in combination with a mood stabilizer, kept me alive. Recently, it hasn't been working and I've been becoming depressed and suicidal again. Whether my chemicals have changed, or I've become immune to the drug I don't know. I am in the process of switching to a new med. | F | 30 | 6 years 30 MG | 11/10/2015 | 5 | Anxiety/Mild Depression | Abdominal bloating, distension and weight gain. Sexual side effects. | Lexapro worked really well for me, totally got rid of my anxiety. I felt super calm but not flat like I did on Zoloft. I finally have been weaning off due to the sexual side effects and weight gain around my middle. I felt like I looked pregnant, it was awful. I have been weaning off, going from 20 to 15 to 10 to 5 to a tiny piece a week apart for each dosage. I stopped altogether 2 weeks ago and the electricity running through my head is pretty bad. That seems to be the only side effect for me going off. I started taking Wellbutrin and it seems to help with some of that. | F | 53 | 9 months 20 1X day | 11/8/2015 | 5 | Severe Depression, Anxiety | First three days of taking Lexapro to made my head feel like it was going to blow up. There was a lot of pressure. After that, day four was when I felt great. I couldn't be sad and I couldn't care about anything. It was a relief. | - Most people don't start on 20mg, it was an emergency. - If you have an "inner critic", it takes that voice away and you feel like you're allowed to feel happy again. - DO NOT STOP COLD TURKEY. I stopped after three months because I felt better. I gained ten pounds. The depression took about for months after to come back. Not pleasant. - Loved this drug, but if you don't like the feeling of uninterrupted calm, I don't recommend it. You aren't overly happy or overly sad, just stable. | F | 21 | 3 months 20 | 10/15/2015 | 5 | Post Partum depression and GAD | First two weeks were a nightmare. I had no clue it was the side effect from the lexapro. I checked myself into the ER 3x in one week certain that I was dying. I vomited for three days straight. Heart palpitations for 2 weeks. Along with the "brain zaps" people tell about. And a feeling of eminent doom 24/7. Like you just saw a dog get hit by a car. They ran entire body scans and told me I was the healthiest person ever. Visited the psychologist who prescribed me and he promised if I just stuck with it, it would pass. And he was right! Almost exactly after the second week I woke up one morning and I felt 100% better. Xanax was the godsend to get me through the side effects. Take it as prescribed and it is your best friend. | I've read nothing but negative reviews on this drug. Some people even claim that the first day of taking the pill it was either aweful or amazing. Just know that you WILL NOT feel any effect for 3-5 days as it takes time for it to build up in your body. I started taking this for my Post Partum. I was to the point that if I even looked at my baby or heard his voice I wanted to vomit. I wanted nothing to do with him. I wanted him away from me as far as possible. I knew there was something wrong with that, so I spoke to a psychologist and he prescribed me lexapro. I started off on 2.5 mg for one week. Then 5 the next week (those 2 weeks were the worst) then I worked up to 10mg. I felt so much better but I still had the feeling of uneasiness. So he bumped me up to 15. That was the magic number. I was totally back to normal. It's been 1yr now and my little baby is now 1.5 yrs old. I feel like I don't need it any more. So my dr has me stepping off. I've gradually taken down the dose by 2.5mgs each month just to be sure I don't experience withdrawals and guess what?! THERE HAVE BEEN NONE!!! Yay. I'm literally down to my last 30 days of this medicine and I feel awesome! DO NOT JUST QUIT COLD TURKEY. you must must must gradually lower the dose by a month at a time or you will suffer TERRIBLE consequences. | F | 32 | 10 months 15 | 9/1/2015 | 5 | Anxiety | None. Had problems with reaching orgasm at first, and my jaw feeling tight, but I was back to normal after about 3 weeks. | I feel normal. I feel like me. I wish I tried Lexapro years ago. No more panic, and that awful frantic heart pounding anxiety no longer happens. I feel like how I should feel - how normal life should feel.I tried a different SSRI once, but I had terrible sexual side effects. None on lexapro for me. | M | 31 | 10 weeks 20mg | 8/20/2015 | 5 | anxiety disorder | drowsy about half hour after talking it and some weird kind of hot flash more like all my body ate chilly peppers. but lasts only about a week | this is my 4th time on lexapro. 1st time had severe anxiety before taking it. started on only 2.5 mg for a week and upping dose every week until 15mg. side effect only for a week. Anxiety symptoms vanished with in 4 weeks. (took it for about 8 months) 2nd time (after 8 months of not on it) no side effects (and on 5 mg only), got better from day 1. 3rd time, no side effects but took me a month to feel ok. this time it is my 6th week and the side effects were different (made me depressed for a week , and i don t suffer from depression) and took longer to kick in because my disorder symptoms were different. still not 100% better but i know Lexapro can do the job. DoN'T BE AFRAID oF IT!!! IT IS A LIFE SAVER (for me at least). ALL SIDE EFFECTS WILL Go AWAY HANG IN THERE | F | 41 | 6 weeks 5mg 1X day | 8/18/2015 | 5 | depression and anxiety | I have started lexapro up twice. .. each time I go through a month of hell and then the side effects go away. I get severe anxiety, clammy/sweaty feet and hands, loss of appetite, stomach issues, shakiness, flu like symptoms, feeling of not being real, dilated pupils. | After the first month, all those side effects go away and I do great. It gives me my life back and the only side effects I am left with is the sexual ones. There is no point in starting up an SSRI if you are going to give it at least 4 to 6 weeks to work. Start up side effects are common and can really stink, but they do end. | F | 26 | 1 days 10 mg | 8/6/2015 | 5 | Generalised Anxiety | Lexapro calms my horny a bit -this is a good thing, haha. Also, my jaw gets tight and jittery jaw now & then, but it goes away within a few minutes. The first 5 days was hard-going with headaches, dizzy spells, and feeling like I was in a time warp. That was all gone after a week. | Four weeks in with Lexapro, and I'm feeling emotions I've never known before because my anxiety no longer takes over everything. I feel like this is what my 'normal' is. Lexapro was my last resort, and, I finally feel like ME. Going on Lexapro is one of the best decisions I've ever made. | M | 31 | 4 weeks 10mg | 7/16/2015 |