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 |
| 4 | GAD/panic attacks | body shakes & muscle twitches, night sweats, vivid dreams,zero libido | started on 10 lexapro with xanax. pdoc upped me to 20mg, took me off xanax and put me on 20 buspar. the 20 lexapro made me want to sleep all day and night and I had extreme body shakes at night. Lowered down to 10 lexapro, but had obsessive thoughts again. Finally, up to 15 lexapro and 10 buspar 2x day. The buspar has no side effects and I can function like a human on 15 lexapro, but have no libido and slight muscle twitches in my hands and legs. | F | 44 | 4 months 15mg 1X day | 3/4/2010 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety | Heavy sedation, Jaw Clenching, Inability to organism | Tired it four months. Very bad side effects. Did not have a good experience. Would not take again. | M | 30 | 4 months 20mg 1X day | 3/2/2010 | 3 | Grief/Anxiety/Depression | I'll be seeing my cardiologist in the near future. Spent several day in ER for Lone atrial fibrillation. | I'm not sure but I think that by inapportiately taking lexapro (skipping days) this medication may have cause my heart condition. Please notify your doctor if you feel you no longer need this med. I was seeking therapy and was feeling better therefore I started skipping days.I did not tell my doctor or therapist that I was not taking the meds as prescribed. I'm hoping my heart condition will correct itself, but won't know until my next cardiologist visit outside the ER room. I will let you know if this played a part with my diagnosis of Lone Atrial Febrillation (Irregular/rapid heart beats.) Unfortunitely, I'm now on heart meds. Please notify your doctor if you feel better and want to stop -- don't stop on your own. | F | 51 | 5 months 10 mg 1X day | 2/26/2010 | 3 | Depression/ Anexiety | WEIGHT Gain, complete loss of libido | I was so excited to start it as I was on Effexor for years but it had negative effects on my BP. And I gained 24 pounds, have no sexual desire and still have moody days. Just switched to Pristiq and hope to get rid of weight and regain sexual desire. | F | 32 | 3 years 10 mg 1X day | 2/23/2010 | 4 | Anxiety | Heavy tooth grinding (10 broken crowns in 7 years, even with a night guard), night sweats, low sex drive. I am off this med now for 2 weeks after a gradual taper. Withdrawal symptoms include brain zaps, dizzyness, minor panic attack, and unexplained episodes of anger. These side effects are lessening and will likely be gone in another week or two. | Relieved my anxiety and panic attacks almost immediatly. I felt great except for the night problems. | F | 39 | 7 years 5-10 1X day | 2/16/2010 | 4 | Depression/anxiety frm fibromyalgia | 1st week tired and nauseated later unable to reach orgasm or lose weight despite monitoring diet and exercise. Weight gain reaching 10 pounds. Jaw clenching | Dr. decided to switch me from Lexapro to Prozac. Will see how that goes. Was switched from Zoloft to Lexapro because when I was on Zoloft I didn't care about anything. Lexapro was a good drug for me. It put a smile on my face and changed the color of my dark/depressed world. Hope Prozac will do the trick without the weight gain. | F | 29 | 9 months 5 mg 1X day | 2/16/2010 | 4 | Anxiety | At first I had zero anxiety which made me care about NOTHING! That wore off after a week or so. I still had problems caring up until ~4 months. Now I am back to normal besides the anxiety. Major sexual side affects which have been getting better but still exist...anorgasim. | Overall great now that the side affects have subsided. Not something I want to stay on for very long though. No weight gain or thoughts of suicide. Helped with anxiety immensly. Before I would lay in bed overwhelmed with anxiety, unable to function. Now I have a "normal" amount of anxiety and rarely have attacks/bursts. I can function fine again! | M | 23 | 5 months 10mg 1X day | 2/16/2010 | 3 | Grief , anxiety | Began on 10 mg. Increased to 20 mg after 6 months. After one year noted fine hand tremors. Decreased dose back to 10 mg. Tremors continued and became more notable and intense. {not constant and worst 1-2 hours after taking. Gradually decreased and DC'd Lexapro. Decided to try to restart took one 10 mg tablet and within 2 hours began tremor hands duration appx one hour. | F | 53 | 1 years 10et 20 mg 1X day | 2/15/2010 | 5 | Anxiety | First few weeks I had scary anxiety that was more intense than my original symptoms, but that subsided. Constipation, difficulty reaching orgasm, decreased appetite, weight loss, excessive sweating. | I was so scared to try an SSRI/SNRI for YEARS! I would try one for a few weeks and get off of it just as quick. My pdoc recommended ativan scheduled 3 times daily for the first 2 weeks to take the edge off, and it got me through the rough patch to get used to the medication. The first few months I still felt some side effects, but now after 6 months, all I feel is great. I am happy, not on edge, I sleep like a well-fed baby, the orgasms are back (yay!), my appetite is back but not out of control, I haven't had trouble controlling my weight, I just feel like a normal person! I am so glad I finally decided to be brave enough to give it a fair try. | F | 31 | 6 months 7.5 mg 1X day | 2/8/2010 | 4 | anxiety/frequent panic attacks | Yawning alot. sweating of the hands. I get the munchies a alot. very light headaches. The first 2 days I would get the chills. Weird thoughts and once woken up, hard to go back to sleep. Clenching of the jaw. | Overall it does help me with my panic attacks. The only thing i dont like about this medicine is that i get horrible thoughts and not wanting to stay home alone. | F | 23 | 6 months 10 mg 1X day | 2/5/2010 | 4 | clinical depression | Dry mouth the first month and then later bouts of extreme thirst, I think it also gives me headaches and neckaches, but I am not sure because I was diagnosed with migraines previous to this medicine. The side effects I have experienced when MISSING a dose or more are: jittery-ness, dizziness and vertigo, nausea, swells in mood, overall awful feeling. Would not recommend quitting cold turkey. | I've tried quite a few antidepressants and this one seems to be the one that handles my depression and I can live with the side effects. I have been on this in the past and gone off of it several times, but I have come to realize that this particular medicine significantly improves my life quality. I am trying really hard to stay on it this time. Some people have mentioned that this medicine doesn't work for mild depression, just major or suicidal depressives, I disagree. | F | 30 | 6 months 20 MG 1X day | 2/4/2010 | 3 | depression and mild anxiety | Dry mouth,yawning then feeling instantly sick, nauseus,difficulty sleeping, a little confused and spaced out but still alert at the same time,relaxed, migraine and trembles first day. All symptoms easing off especially dy mouth. | Obviously it's only been 4 days but i thought this might help others just starting. The symptoms look much worse in writing than the reality of them. They are mild enough symptoms and when you think of what the drug actually does there's bound to be some reaction in the earlier stages. I see an improvement with the side effects daily and i like the relaxed feeling. | F | 28 | 4 days 10mg 1X day | 2/4/2010 | 3 | depression/anxiety | poor short-term memory, increased alcohol craving, increased reaction to alcohol/blackouts, vivid dreams, sleep disturbances (talking in sleep), weight gain (15+ lbs) and decreased sex drive. | Not sure if Lexapro really helped with my depression and anxiety, fortunately have a good therapist and positive environmental changes. Side effects were apparent almost immediately (except weight gain which happened gradually, but drastically accumulated--never been this heavy before in my life). Added Wellbutrin to try to counter-act Lexapro side effects, but not doing the trick. Going off Lexapro SLOWLY at the moment, withdrawal symptoms( from missing a dose) very strong--brain zaps, dizziness, weakness and fatigue. | F | 32 | 1.5 years | 2/2/2010 | 3 | GAD, Anxiety | Backache & stiff neck, weight gain, no energy | At one time I was taking lexapro,welbutrin,geodon,ativan and ellivel. I suffer from allergies and high blood pressure so I take other medications also. About two months ago I had the flu and got off my meds while sick. I was fine for about a month and then started getting paranoid. My doctor put me back on welbutrin and lexapro only. I felt like I was going to explode, if I wasn't having a pity party I was telling people off. He then took me off welbutrin and put back on Lexapro and now I have a backache and stiff neck. I had this before but didn't realize it was the Lexapro because I was on so much other medicine. I spent money going to a neuologist and physical therapy for my aches. No one could figure out what was wrong with me. Now I know! Go figure! | F | 48 | | 1/30/2010 | 3 | depression w/psychotic features | twice the anxiety, tremors in hands, the world looked "sharper", lots of worrying | turns out effexor works better for me. i was on 10 mg lex and 2 mg. risperdal. i was so anxious i was calling my doc almost everyday with worries. ;( wish he had taken me off of it sooner! | M | 27 | 1 months | 1/29/2010 | 4 | morning | nothing only weight | I am 20 years old. I use lexapro for two months i must say great anxiety and depression are gone. I found Lexapro online on google i must say great medicine also for young people. | M | 20 | 180 days | 1/28/2010 | 3 | M | 36 | 2 years | 1/28/2010 | 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 | 5 | Anxiety | Initial Nausea (gone in two weeks), Diarrhea (gone in one week), increased anxiety (2 days) headache before dosage (I take at night) this happens every day and initial headaches after taking it (one week or so) | Worked great for me, NO panic attacks and I sleep great! Anxiety is getting much better and I feel back to normal. All in all, very good experience with it. | M | 32 | 2 months | 1/15/2010 | 4 | Anxiety | Mild nausea in the beginning and headache. Long term weight gain. | F | 41 | 5 years | 1/13/2010 |