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 | Depression/Anxiety | Nightmares/night-sweats, Insomnia, constant agitated feeling... | This drug did absolutely nothing positive for me. Along with the side effects already mentioned, the lexapro made me "emotionless" and even more suicidal. I discontinued after about 2 and a half months. Ive tried several of the SSRIs and cannot stand the way they make me feel... | M | 20 | 3 months | 5/8/2006 | 1 | Depression , Anxiety | I gained about 5 pounds. | Lexipro did nothing for me. My doctor raised me to the 20 mg. dose to see if that would help., and I got worse with the crying spells. I'm now trying WellbutrinXL | F | 10 weeks | 5/7/2006 | 5 | anxiety/depression | At the begining of treatment, I was foggy brained, vivid dreams, delayed orgasm. However, within several months these drifted away. I will say that on a higher dose, I have an hard time loosing weight even when on a strict diet and excersise plan. | This drug has been wonderful for me. I took Wellbutrin, which made me too jittery, Zoloft which made me extremely depressed and prozac which helpped but seemed to be *too* stimulating. Lexapro has been there for me again and again. As cheesy as it sounds I feel like *myself* again. I can enjoy life rid myself of sadness,anxiety and cynisim which comes with depression/anxiety. If only I could figure out the weight thing, this would be a miricale. | F | 26 | 1.5 years | 5/6/2006 | 5 | Anxiety--GAD/SAD | ZERO NOTICABLE SIDE EFFECTS AFTER 3 MONTHS Had horrible experiences w/ fluoxetine and zoloft prior to this drug. | Switched to Lexapro after a run on Zoloft. For me, there is no comparison! Lexapro is a far superior product. My biggest problem w/ zoloft was lethargy/extreme tiredness---I had no where near normal energy levels. Lexapro is fantastic, I have at least as much energy as normal and all the positive effects of a SSRI. | M | 31 | 3 months | 5/3/2006 | 4 | Depression, anxiety, panic attacks | Began sinking deeper into depression with major depressive disorder symptoms including vague hallucinations, insomnia (woke up EVERY SINGLE NIGHT for the first 5 weeks at 3:30am exactly). Dr said in some people things can get worse before they get better and body adjusts to medicine. Also a lot of sweating for no reason, I just sweat all the time. Lost a lot of weight during adjustment period - about 20 pounds. Lack of saliva and lack of appetite. Feelings of detachment, as if I was watching myself go through routine motions. Intense paranoia. No interest in sex at all. | Having gone through this before with Zoloft, I was hoping to avoid it with Lexapro. unfortunately this was not the case. I can not say with 100% certainty that some of these symptoms were not depression induced rather than side effects of the medication. I can say that after about 6 weeks, everything corrected and I feel great now. The only persistent side effect is lack of sex drive, but compared to the mental side effects I can deal with it. I must say that I wonder if seratonin imbalance was truly the problem as my symptoms (side effects) kind of resembled hyper-seratonin. Perhaps my problem was a dopamine issue and not seratonin? Either way, I feel much better now. | M | 33 | 8 months | 5/2/2006 | 3 | anxiety/depression | anorgasma, headaches, increase in appetite, inability to concentrate, feeling hung over. | During the first week I had terrible headaches. Within two weeks it was impossible to have an orgasm or concentrate on anything. Now at week 3, I just feel tired, really tired. I feel less anxious now, but I'm not totally sure it's worth it at this point. This is the second SSRI have tried (I was on paxil for 3 years) and the side effects I experienced are the same for both although lexapro is supposed to be more gentle. | F | 20 | 3 weeks | 5/2/2006 | 2 | GAD, extreme anxiety | more anxiety than normal, nausous | I tried this med for almost a month, but did not get any relief from it at all, it actually caused me to have more anxiety than before | M | 51 | 28 days | 5/2/2006 | 2 | uncontrollable pms symptoms | Tingling in my head, loss of sex drive with inability to have orgasm or even feel anything down there. Serious weight gain. Listlissness. Very severe head and neck pain and muscle cramping. Had to stop taking it. | I do have to say that it did bring the PMS under control. I was less argumentative and generally felt that if the building was burning down I'd pull up a lawn chair and say what the hell..got any marshmellows? My peers saw a big difference as I was not homicidal or quick to anger/crying. Been a while since I was on it but can't lose the weight and sex drive has not returned. Meds are different for everybody. | F | 35 | 3 months | 5/2/2006 | 5 | Anxiety and panic attacks | No side effects | I can't believe how much lexapro has helped me in the past 4 months. I feel like a new person, which is good. More happier than ever before.. I recommend it. But I am afraid of getting off of lexapro, wont have to for awhile.. | F | 32 | 4 months | 4/29/2006 | 3 | Depression | First few weeks I had headaches, and some teeth grinding or tightness in jaw, then vivid dreams, fatigue, insominia, 12 lbs of weight gain. Have an appointment to wean off, Over all it did help me with the baby blues but gaining weight is making me depressed all over, esp after I lost all of my weight gain during my pregnancy. Good luck | F | 38 | 5 months | 4/29/2006 | 4 | depression and anxiety | First few weeks were very rough. I had muscle aches, sweating, depersonalization, and even more anxiety, even on 5 mg. After a while, shrink switched me to 10 mg which made me get bad thoughts. Now I am back to 5 mg, calmer, but cannot concentrate on my master's degree, which is the only drawback. Oh yes, do not take claritin with this medicine: I took it for allergies with my doctor recommending it, and had chest pains and my hands hurt. | F | 43 | 7 months | 4/27/2006 | 1 | depression/anxiety | night sweats, major mood swings and moment of over excitement combined with rudeness. head felt completely detached from body and feeling suicidal. | these doctors really must be getting big perks by pushing this crap on people. i know that drugs have different results with different people. but too many patients had same discomforts. yes, i had the runs too. | F | 30 | 12 days | 4/27/2006 | 2 | depression, anxiety | sever nausea, dizziness, felt very out of it, nervousness, restlessness, jaw-clenching/teeth-grinding | I was taking celexa for about 6 months and not 100% satisfied with the results, so my doctor switched me to lexapro. I experienced very little side effects with the celexa so she assumed the same would be true for the lexapro, since they are so close chemically. Within 20 minutes of taking the first dose, I felt like I was going to pass out, I was so dizzy and nauseous. I was very shaky for the rest of the day and became nauseous again upon my evening dose and very restless. I continued to take it for a full hellish week but the side effects never dissipated, so I switched back to the celexa. My doctor had never heard of such a reaction but I have since talked to other people who went from celexa to lexapro nad had similar experiences. I have to admit, the depression didn't get any worse, but that definatly wasn't worth holding out with the lexapro. | F | 24 | 10 days | 4/26/2006 | 1 | mild depression, chronic pain | I had a dramatic increase in sex drive, extremely vivid dreams--mostly sexual, night sweats, some tiredness during the day, jaw clenching. | The sexual side-effects may seem exciting, but they have practically turned me into a different person. I did not at first relate them to the drug, and tried to understand my feelings. When I realized they were drug-related, I was horrified. My doctor told me to double the dose to completely get rid of my depression (from 10 mg to 20 mg). I have never taken drugs before except for marijuana--which has helped my chronic pain and depression. The night after doubling the dose, my muscles became tense, I had tremendous energy even though I wanted to sleep, and I "came down" the next day. My friend told me it sounded like I was on cocaine. WHY is this drug legal and marijuana is illegal????? I feel like I am taking something extremely dangerous. Look up "serotonin syndrome" to see that the side effects I am describing can lead to death. | M | 32 | 8 months | 4/26/2006 | 5 | Anxiety | None | Took a while to kick in, but once it did life changed for the better. I think I needed AD's my whole life. Don't ever want to go back to being a nervous wreck all the time. | F | 43 | 5 years | 4/25/2006 | 5 | Depression | Slight nausea at the beginning and mild constipation which was resolved with stool softners. | Great drug! Helped with the depression with little side effects. I can take it in the evening and still sleep. No probles with orgasm. | M | 45 | 2 years | 4/25/2006 | 2 | ANXIETY | Joint pain, wired feeling, headaches. | Did not help my anxiety. Wasn't able to up the dose due to bad side effects. Tried it twice, both times ineffective. | F | 27 | 2 months | 4/25/2006 | 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 | 4 | Depression | I was started on 10mg Lexapro and experienced hot flashes and excessive sweating and a bad odor to my urine. A few months later, I experienced some disorientation to time/place, chills, poor cold tolerance,dry skin,and palpitations with sensation of atrial tachycardia although the bad odor and excessive sweating decreased. How good is QA of dose per pill? When the dose was increased to 20mg, I experienced gastoparesis, nausea, vomiting, belching, bloating, headache, back/shoulder pain, nasal congestion, intolerance of food smells, early satiety,fatigue, more vivid dreams. DC'd med per MD after 2 doses, but after 4 days off, symptoms still have not completely resolved. | Has helped with depression and has few interactions with other meds or with foods. How good is the QA? How well is it metabolized by persons whose livers can't tolerate statins and who metabolize alcohol very slowly? | F | 52 | 6 months | 4/23/2006 | 3 | depression, PTSD, fibromyal anxiety | spaciness,VERY much in pain/muscles in the morning, less during the day(like I was beat up or in a car accident)I felt like this was when I took glucosimine. But I also have fibromyalgia and shingles hanging around so that might have something to do with it. Always thirsty. More headachs in the morning. I have been celibate for 15 years so I don't know if it effects my libito. | I started on Prozac about 11 years ago. from 10mg to 20mg after a few years then to 40mg which I could not handle. So I went to Wellbutian, it worked ok but needed a boost so started taking prozac again with it which was enough to keep me level. But i still was triggered by odd things and would fall into THAT state......most of you know which one. My doctor switched me to Lexapro w/the wellbutian, first to 10mg. then 20mg the next week. since then I have been going to one thing to another, not realizing i had left the first thing. (my discription of spacey)but the most noticable thing is the muscle pain. Maybe it because of the shingles or now that spring is here I have been doing yard work (but not every day) and yet the pain has been everyday. One good thing has been that I have been an overall even kilter. (my deffinition for no suicdal idealization) but only time will tell, it could be the nice weather too. It seems so funny to me that everybody have such a viriety of sympto | F | 49 | 2 months | 4/23/2006 |