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 | anxiety, mild depression | weight gain, for about 3 weeks sexual disfunction, | I hate this drug! I have been trying to wean myself off of it for the last 3 weeks by decreasing the dosage. I am so miserable. My doctor NEVER told me that I would experience these side effects; brain zaps, extreme fatique, feelings of wanting to hurt myself physically. My thoughts were, that physical pain would relieve the mental anguish! my Doctor is NO LONGER prescribing this drug nor will they refill a prescription...Gee does this raise a red flag???? as the day goes on I become exhausted, the brain zaps are even more frequent they happen everytime I turn my head. I feel off balance and slightly sick to my stomach. If I had known this is what was going to happen I NEVER WOULD HAVE TAKEN THIS DRUG. I feel crazy, tired, and loopy. I do not know how else to describe this. It worries me that there is such side effects when trying to rid your body of such a drug---JUST EXACTLY WHAT DID IT DO TO ME while I was taking it and I don't even realize it! anyway, my suggestion would | F | 58 | 20 months | 1/28/2009 | 3 | anxiety and depression | muscles twitching, nausea, tired, | i have way less anxiety its only been three days but i am just wondering if the muscle twitching will go away.....i hope so its driving me crazy....anyone that has had the muscle twitching problem contact me at [email protected] please.....i wana no what to do about it. | F | 22 | 3 days | 1/27/2009 | 3 | Anxiety | Severe headaches | I think Jim Carey summed it up best, when your on anti depressants everything is OK, but there are no up or downs. I need my up and downs, I can't stand SSRIs. | M | 40 | 5 years | 1/27/2009 | 2 | GAD, OCD features, mild depression | sleep disturbances | Significant sleep disturbances (waking 1-2 times overnight) which made very tired and sleepy during the next day and were not relieved even from ambien and diazepam prevented me from tolerating this drug for longer than 2 months. | M | 29 | 2 months | 1/27/2009 | 1 | anxiety and depression | Irritability, nervousness, increased anxiety. | Lexapro did help me through a rough patch. But the feelings of wanting to kill myself became too much and I decided to quit. I was only taking 2.5 mg a day. The withdrawal lasted 3 weeks with a pressure headache and brain zaps. I didn't know it was from the drug and became concerned for my health. | F | 59 | 14 days | 1/27/2009 | 4 | anxiety | jaw clenching, reduced libido, delayed ejaculation | Ive been on lex for about a month 20mg. It has done wonders for my sex life. I can last a long time and please my wife like never before. No erection problems yet. Im also more patient with my kids, and deal with stressed situations more calmly. Happy with it. | M | 33 | 1 months | 1/23/2009 | 2 | Depression / Anxiety | Loss of sensation in genitalia Weight Gain Insomnia Muscle Clenching (at first) | Lexapro was simply not good for me. I never really experienced any anti-depressant effects, I just couldn't think about suicide. Which is weird, but that's how I've felt on Effexor and Zoloft as well. I was taking 20mg for a while, but I got tired of not being able to sleep, drink alcohol,and the sexual side effects sucked. I had to take a sedative to sleep at night, and I had the worst dreams. Taking this drug was pointless. | M | 19 | 3 months | 1/23/2009 | 3 | GAD/Depression | Nausea in the mornings. | I started Lex 1/10/2009. I must say I was scared to. I was on Celexa briefly and Paxil in 2000. But stopped due to sexual side effects. I then went to a doctor in 2008 for anxiety and they put me on Prozac. That was the worst experience of my life. The dreams were horrible, it made my heart race, now I'm no doctor, but if someone has anxiety issues, the last thing that person wants is a rapid heart rate. So I stopped after a month on that. I revisited the whole depression/anxiety issue in late 2008. I had a sleep study to see if APNEA could be causing anxiety and depression, the test came back negative for APNEA. So I told my counselor that maybe I needed something for depression. It's hard to self diagnose if you have anxiety because of depression or vice versa. She prescribed Lexapro as she says she sees great results with it. I of course searched the internet and read the horror stories as well as the success stories. The horror stories actually kept me from taking it for a few days | M | 39 | 9 days | 1/20/2009 | 2 | anxiety | Dialated pupils, restless legs, nausia, headaches, extreme fatigue. | I took this medicine for over 3 months. It took about 2 weeks to kick in and I felt wonderful once it did. I felt like this was a miracle drug. After 2 months I noticed that the medicine might have started to not work as much - my doctor suggested I increase my doseage. ONLY PROBLEM. After 3 months on this drug I gained 18 pounds !! I started to become depressed about that. I am not one to gain weight like this. DO NOT LISTEN TO DR OR NURSE ABOUT THIS MEDICINE NOT MAKING YOU GAIN WEIGHT. IT DOES.If your not worried about weight, then the medicine was great. I need to have control of my body, so I stopped and now started taking Wellbutrin 100mg 3x day. I cross my fingers on this one | F | 32 | 4 months | 1/20/2009 | 5 | PMDD & GAD | Just the first 2 weeks, hot flashes, diarrhea, decreased eating. Only lasting effects have been a low sex drive, but I had this before too, but no problems with orgasm once into it. | This medicine is the first AD I have tried. I take 10mg. Totally had gotten rid of my GAD & PMDD. Sexual side effects arent horrible enough for me to stop, overall a great med for me. | F | 33 | 9 months | 1/19/2009 | 3 | GAD, social anxiety, other anxiety | Weight gain and bruxism (teeth clenching) | Would be a wonder drug if it weren't for the weight gain. Went on it for several months when my GAD became tough to manage using less involved alternatives (exercise, chamomile tea, occasional Clonazepam or Ambien). It was great for anxiety and also helped me get past social anxiety so dating, going to parties, socializing became easier. BUT - I'm super-weight conscious and I gained maybe 10 to 15 lbs. My psychdoc was cagey about weight gain when I asked about it before going on it; my primary doc was more up-front and confirmed it's a weight gainer and probably changes your metabolism. After several months I went off it and the weight came off pretty steadily in about 8 weeks, but I had to exert major effort - bike to work every day, 1 hour cardio classes at the gym, swimming, etc. (By the way, my primary doc does extensive lab work on me every year and he figures the Lexapro is responsible not only for the weight gain but elevated liver numbers and some other not-so-great things | M | 39 | 7 months | 1/19/2009 | 3 | depression/anxiety | fuzzy "high" feeling, sleepy, can't stop yawning | It's six days now and the obsessive endless thoughts about a bad event in my life are already subsiding. I noticed that almost from day one. I feel calmer. That's all good. On the down side, I feel as if I'm in a fog. I can still do my work, but I want to SLEEP and I wake up groggy. Kind of reminds me of the few times when I've been sick and taken sudafed, except there's more sleepiness. It's not exactly a pleasant feeling and I hope that it'll pass, as I am not interested in remaining a semi-zombie--there are lots of things I want and need to do in my life. I am taking 5 mg. Can orgasm easily so far (I've been checking). If anything, my appetite's diminished. But it's only been 6 days, and I expect things will change. | F | 49 | 6 days | 1/19/2009 | 4 | Anxiety disorder | Sexual Side Effects- primarily decreased libido and sexual sensation. Some weight gain and fuzziness | this has been a good medicine for me in helping my anxiety and compulsive thoughts. There is definitely a tradeoff due to sexual side effects, but it has greatly reduced my anxiety | M | 43 | 4 years | 1/17/2009 | 2 | Dysthymia | Wellbutrin stopped working for me after 6 years. Lexapro was the fourth med my doc had me try, after Celexa, Cymbalta and Pristiq either failed to work or had intolerable side effects. 10 mg Lexapro caused mild nausea which went away after a few days. It also caused mild mouth dryness which did not resolve. Lexapro made my fatigue much worse and helped none of my depressive symptoms. In fact, there were a few days in the first two weeks when I felt much more hopeless and depressed than usual. After 2 weeks, my doc increased my dose to 20 mg. My nausea returned and I noticed a slight elevation in mood for a day or two, then I "returned to baseline" (except for my fatigue, which worsened on the higher dose). I had mild restless leg syndrome on Lexapro, which became worse when I went up from 10 to 20 mg. I had to take 0.5 mg Klonopin every night to keep the RLS at bay. It was really, really hard to wake up in the morning on Lexapro. There was one workday I thought I was g | No real positives or benefits to mention. Lexapro did not help my mood, attitude, motivation, IBS, body aches or tendency to overeat. The nicest things I can say about Lexapro is that it didn’t cause sexual side effects, headaches or alcohol intolerance. Lexapro works for a lot of people, but it did nothing for me. | F | 46 | 4 weeks | 1/17/2009 | 3 | GAD & PPD | After 4 days: Extreme fatigue, dizziness, foggy head, jaw clenching. | I feel better after 3 days (may be a placebo affect). Although I am not completely "out of the dark", but I don't have a racing heart. I actually laughed tonight for the first time in a long time! I am taking it for GAD and Post Part. Depression. My Dr. informed me I would be on 10mg for 2 weeks and then increase because the response is better for 20mg. | F | 34 | 4 days | 1/16/2009 | 1 | Depression; OCD; anxiety | extreme lethargy; hungry more than usual; weight gain; zero motivation; memory issues (short term memory negatively affected); hopeless; social anxiety magnified. | I took 10 mg for one month and mainly noticed the fatigue as the biggest side effect, once I was upped to 20 mg though all of the other side effects seemed to take hold of my life. Not a good experience at all for me. | F | 31 | 65 days | 1/15/2009 | 1 | Depression, Anxiety | Nausea, Jaw Clenching, Severely affected my ability to ejaculate, Tiredness, night sweats, upset my reflux, dramatically changed me when drinking | My doctor did not warn me of the side effects. The pack came with no warninigs. I would not recommend this drug to anyone unless you have very severe problems. In the 1st week I thought I might have noticed I was feeling better - It was probably a placebo effect. Do not drink alcohol while on this stuff - It changed me completely, I got drunk fast, did not know when to stop drinking, lost all control and accused my wife of an affair. As for the loss of sex function - how can you overcome depression if your sex suffers??. The nausea was so bad in the mornings I could hardly eat. I'm 3 days off them and feel better. I'm back to St Johns Wort. I'll never touch an anti depressant again! These things are dangerous | M | 2 weeks | 1/14/2009 | 3 | anxiety and depression | The worst being jaw clenching. Really bad in the beginning. It took about 4 weeks and it had gotten better. I still clench but not as bad. Now it's my blood pressure. Seems like lexapro is giving me high blood pressure. Now doctor wants to put me on something for that. I take this drug for anxiety and get another problem. How good is that? If anyone else has blood pressure issues from this please email me. | F | 43 | 5 weeks | 1/11/2009 | 3 | irratibility | killed my libido | I rated this a 3 because of sexual side effects, otherwise this is an amazing drug. Lexapro took about three weeks at 10mg/day to fully kick in, and once it did... my overall level of irritibility dropped 90%. I eventually went off because of the sex thing, and even months later this hasn't fully come back. I wish I could stay on Lex but the tradeoff just isn't worth it. | M | 33 | 3 months | 1/8/2009 | 5 | Depression, anxiety | First 2 weeks, nausea, sleeplessness, feeling "spaced out", night sweats. After getting used to lexapro some mild weight gain and occassionally lose interest in sex. Less anxiety, more confidence and less mood swings. | I wish I would have started taking Lexapro sooner, it has changed my life! I've been unhappy and worried my entire life until I started Lex.. Now I am able to handle everyday life without falling apart. I've also become more motivated to take on new challenges in my life. I take 2.5 mg daily, must be taken daily or withdrawals are horrible. | F | 27 | 1 years | 1/5/2009 |