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 | Grief stricken, panic attacks | Horrible anxiety | I am in extreme grief at the present time and taking .5MG Xanax three times daily to control the panic attacks it's causing me. My anxiety became much worse than what I already am experiencing, almost unbearable, after only six days. It seems this is a common side effect, I can't imagine why the NP gave me this drug. If you are already anxious or have panic attacks stay away from this drug. | F | 64 | 6 days 10 1X day | 4/8/2011 | 1 | mild to moderate anxiety | Over the past 3 years on Lexapro; I experienced increasing chronic fatique and apathy and only moderate relief from my anxiety. Over the past 12 months, I have been to the doctor many times to try to figure out why my energy level is so low; my weight gain so extreme. Not once did a doctor suggest to me that it could be the Lexapro; in fact one doctor increased the dosage which is what finally caused me to attribute my fatigue to the med. When the dosage went up, the fatigue was unbearable. I have been off Lexapro for about one week now and the withdrawal effects are much, much more tolerable than the fatigue was. Within 3 days of going off Lexapro, my energy went through the roof. | F | 41 | 3 years 10 MG 1X day | 3/25/2011 | 1 | Anxiety Disorder | Urinary retention, was horrible. Woke up and could not pee at all. Emergency visit with urologist who had to catheterize me and discontinued my usage of this drug. I had to learn how to catheterize myself to pee and did so for several weeks until function returned. Urine had backed up into my kidneys and severly bruised my left kidney. I was in agony and it was a nighmare. You don't appreciate such a basic funtion like urinating until you can not. | NO ONE told me of this rare side effect. | M | 41 | 1 years 30mg 1X day | 3/20/2011 | 1 | severe clinical depression | loss of sex drive, dilated pupils, worsened depression and anxiety, anger, big detachment from all parts of my life and people. | all of those listed side effects came my way with lexapro, including the increase in suicidal feelings, which was not a major part of the warning at the time i was first prescribed and not a major part of my depression before lexapro. I lost sex drive, according to friends I appeared to be "on drugs" with dilated pupils and most noticeably detached from everyone and everything important in my life. leading to relationship breakdown, loss of business, and large distrust of psychology and medicinal treatment for depression. the depression is still affecting me today, even though i slowly reduced my dosage nearly 3 years ago, to nothing. the withdrawals were comparable to that of a heroin addict. I couldn't stand up or walk for a week. I am still not confident seeking alternative treatment, because of the suicidal feelings I still experience and attribute to lexapro and antidepressants in general. Not recommended. I have heard of people suiciding on this medication. | F | 36 | 2 years 20mg 1X day | 3/9/2011 | 1 | anxiety- depression | im am tired all the time i can not function at work.. i never feel like doing anything with my kids xause all i wanna do is sleep of lay around. i still have really bad anxiety that did not change at all.. im am going to wean my self of this medication right away before i get fired from my job | M | 24 | 5 months 10mg 1X day | 3/7/2011 | 1 | Depression | Toxic poison. Felt doped up in a drunken stupor. Tired, fatigue, weight gain, hair loss. | Tried all the antidepressants, thought I would give this one a shot. Increased anxiety like mad! After trying 25 antidepressants, my doctor put me on 5 mcg's of Cytomel. After 15 years of depression, it went away in one day with Cytomel. It was like someone turned on the life switch. My thyroid tests were and are still normal.'I don't think big pharma has depression quite figured out yet. Try Cytomel!!! Read the testimonials on here, they are the same as mine. Start low and go slow (5 mcg's - 10 mcg's). No more than 10 mcg's per day.'You will feel like a dead plant come back to life! No generics! | M | 40 | 8 weeks 10 1X day | 3/6/2011 | 1 | depression and anxiety | extreme weight gain, short-term memory loss, hair loss | I am detoxing from Lexapro now. I slowly cut my dosage over several months and took vitamin supplements to help. I am now 10 days completely off and OMG is it rough. I have flu-like symptoms, dizziness, major mood swings, lots of anxiety, tiredness. I have no idea when this will end. I have been taking lots of vitamin supplements from truehope.com to help and it is still terrible. I just really want to be done with this. I would never have guessed withdrawal would be so terrible. I am looking to get pregnant and do not want to be on any medications. Also neurofeedback has been more helpful than the medicine ever was. | F | 39 | 5 years 20mg 1X day | 2/21/2011 | 1 | Bi-Polar Depression | Worsening of Depression after 2 weeks | In my opinion and from my experience, Lexapro is the worse anti-depressant there is. I took it for 14 days. In the beginning I started to feel somewhat better and then on day 14 I was plunged into one of the worst depressions of my life. I hate this drug and would not recommend it to anyone from the experience I have had with it. | F | 56 | 14 days 10 1X day | 1/27/2011 | 1 | get anxious while driving or flying | Took Lexapro for 2 days only and it has been 2 days since I stopped it. I am very tired, difficult for me to get up the stairs, palpitations, stomach ache, abundant periods, sinusitis, crying . | Lexapro poisened me. | M | 45 | 2 days 10 1X day | 12/31/2010 | 1 | Depression and mild anxiety | A few hours afer taking my first lexapro, I had to calm myself down from a panic situation. I haven't had an anxiety attack in months, so i'm gonna assume that the drug caused it. Other side effects i've experienced: eye dilation, nervousness, dry mouth, and a weird feeling in my face. Kind of a chemical taste in my mucous membrane areas. I feel quite a bit worse that I did two days ago. | I know that this drug is supposed to take awhile to work, but after two days, that'll be it for me. I called my dr. on day 1 and asked him if these effects were normal. He assured me that the way I felt was me, and not a side effect of the drug. I didn't believe him. After finding this site, I definitely don't believe him. | M | 35 | 2 days 10 mg 1X day | 11/5/2010 | 1 | anxiety assoc. IBS&Panic Attack | immediate upset stomach and diarrhea, nausea, panic attack, lump in throat, feeling of being at a complete loss of control...just went straight to bed after i could get out of the bathroom and tried to go to sleep. | My sister has had great results from this for years and never had any side effects so I thought it would be ok to try since my doctor was suggesting that my IBS was mainly caused by anxiety and i was having quite frequent panic attacks. i was against taking it but tried it after buspar (not an ssri or ssnri)caused crazy dreams and extreme insomnia. i dont think ill ever try an anti-depressant again...except considering wellbutrin???Now I am just relying on imodium and valium to control my IBS. appt nov30th to follow up... | F | 28 | 1 days 10mg? 1X day | 10/27/2010 | 1 | for Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Shaking sweating nausea lightheaded/ dizziness breathing problems tingling and burning sensations all over panic attacks thoughts of suicide thinking of ways to commit suicide wanting to die so I dont feel the side effects anymore. | I called my doctor today and he changed me from Lexapro to Celexa and also put me on Xanax for emergency use.. I DO NOT suggest Lexapro to ANYONE EVER! It's a horrible drug. I got zero benefits from it. | F | 22 | 5 days 10 MG 1X day | 10/20/2010 | 1 | Depression | Within 20 minutes of just one dose I had a racing heart with an irregular heart rate, sweating, freezing cold but my skin was itching and burning, trembling violently, agitated, pacing, abdominal pain, diarrhea, EXTREME anxiety that I can not begin to describe, unlike anything I've ever experienced. The best I can explain it is if there is such a place as hell then I know what it feels like. The effect was so profoundly disturbing I wanted immediate relief from it and due to the drugs rapid and dramatic effect I was unable to think clearly, I was not in control of my actions, the only solution I could see was to jump off the balcony. It literally drove me mad and to suicide. Had I not had urgent intervention within 1/2 an hour of taking Lexapro I would have been dead. This had never happened to me before and has not happened since. I had only been suffering mild situational depression, was not unhappy with my life, did not have a history of violence, self harm or suicide attemp | ***THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS DRUG*** If your doctor if flippant in prescribing this drug, will not adequately address your concerns or cannot guarantee your safety while trialing treatment find another doctor. Personally I feel the incidence of Lexapro suicide is under reported (blamed on depression and mental illness) this drug should be withdrawn. | F | 36 | 1 days 10 1X day | 10/17/2010 | 1 | Depression | Nausea, Blurred Vision, 3 to 5 hours sleep, Suicidal Thoughts | Be careful with this medication. This was my first anti-depressant medication. Very scary drug. I was unable to sleep, had blurred vision, and felt sick to my stomach. Unable to eat anything significant for the 3 days. While driving to a friends house crazy thoughts kept happening. Stopped the drug after 2 days and next day was feeling better. Would not have been able to work (software developer) if attempting this drug during work week. Currently on Nortriptyline which seems to help. | M | 50 | 2 days 10mg 1X day | 10/4/2010 | 1 | Reactive Anxiety / Depression | Profound increase in anxiety. Depersonalization. Suicidal thoughts | No previous psych history. Became anxious and depressed after a major post op complication so Rx was suggested. 1st day got very restless about 4 hours after taking the Rx. Lasted 20 min. Second day not as bad. 3rd day GP increased dose to 10 mg. 4 hours post became very anxious, paranoid for 20 min. Woke at night about 14 hrs post dose with full blown panic attack: 1st ever in my life. Paced all night, crying, suicidal, tremulous. Lasted for 14 hours. GP stopped Rx. Be careful with this drug. SSRI's and SNRI's can all cause a worsening of anxiety at 1st. In my case this was almost fatal. | M | 48 | 3 days 5 - 10 1X day | 9/25/2010 | 1 | anxiety | Within 20 mins I felt dizzy, light-headed, and nausea. Within an hour I was more anxious and extremely depressed. After 7 hours I was vomiting uncontrolably with a severe headache and body tremors. | Obviously Lexapro is a drug that does not agree with my body. Just wanted to put a WARNING out to people reading this. It is very important to be monitored while using a drug for the first time. I didn't realize that it had 'messed up' my head SO much until the dose was completely out of my system. I spent 4 hours in the emergency room after taking Lexapro. Again, this drug may work for some people....but PLEASE make sure someone else is monitoring your behavior, if my husband wouldn't have come home early, I probably would have attempted suicide. VERY SCARY that a drug that is supposed to help you, can make you worse. Good luck to all taking......and make sure to monitor yourself! | F | 24 | 1 days 10mg 1X day | 9/4/2010 | 1 | Anxiety | I'm almost certain that I'd rather endure my regular anxiety attacks! I just took my first Lexapro at about 7:00 pm, at 11:30 while watching TV I had this rushing heat sensation up my torso and up through my scalp. My heart started beating so fast that I swear I was going to literally pass out. After a hot shower and breathing deeply, the worst has passed but I can't lay down, because I can hear my heartbeat. It's 2 am, I'm exhausted but am not able to sleep. This is almost like a cruel joke! I think I will stick to Zoloft, which was great at taking the edge off! If 10mg did this to me I cant imagine if I had taken a higer dose! If you react strongly to meds DO NOT TAKE this drug! I will not be continuing it! | Too strong! Makes me feel like I'm on drugs! Eyes dialated & rapid heartbeat!!! | F | 36 | 1 days 10 mg 1X day | 7/31/2010 | 1 | severe depression and anxiety | It made me like I was plastered drunk and made me act psychotic. I blacked out and dont remember anything that happened the whole time I was on it. My family had to retreat from me. | F | 36 | 14 days 10 mg 1X day | 7/18/2010 | 1 | Anxiety | Apathy, difficulty concentrating, short term memory issues, mild GI discomfort | Most anxiety disappeared almost immediately but I went from a laughing, loving husband and father to someone who seemed like a ghost. It took me too long to connect the medication with the personality change but eventually I ceased taking it. Two years later I still don't feel like I'm back 100%, as if there is some permanent change. I'm closer to enjoying life but I feel like my imagination and zest for life have been crippled to a certain degree. My wife and siblings all noted the difference but felt like the removed anxiety could be worth it so never said anything. Let me tell you, I enjoy the anxiety much more than that hollow feeling. Never messing with brain chemistry again. | M | 39 | 11 months 10mg 1X day | 7/16/2010 | 1 | anxiety/depression | Side effects: First, fatique and weight loss. Next was the complications of orgasm. Next, weight gain (twenty pounds), apathy with my family, indifference with life and my future. | I started taking Lexapro because of "empty nest" when my youngest left for college. I was sad and not sure what life would deal me when they were gone. Lexapro, in the beginning, gave me a lift in life. I suffered the side effects of the drug believing I was feeling better. I am here after six years of the drug and have realized, it altered me with the effects and side effects that were not really good. A psychologist and a therapist would tell me that I was good but the effects on my family life were devastating. I know weaning from the drug is horrible. It will send your brain into jolts and even after a month of weaning, the jolts are minimal but still present. I have come to believe that this drug is something that "everyone" takes but have no idea how it effects your life because you are in a drug induced blunder that makes you think life is good. I lost my husband of twenty seven years, both of my children and I am alone. I contribute these lossed to the way Lexapro effected me. | F | 49 | 6 years 20 1X day | 6/30/2010 |