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 | social and generalized anxiety | extremely vivid dreams and nightmares | It's made me feel a lot better and calmed me down a lot. I don't freak out and great as stressed as I used to in specific situations. It's helped me think more clearly about what it is I'm afraid of. For the first few days I took it, I was extremely fidgety and hyper, and I rambled a lot and talked fast, but I settled down after a few days. The only thing that really bothers me are the nightmares. I often dream that people I know die in really random ways, like having trees fall on them or being chased by alligators. In the morning, I'm so convinced that my dream was real, and it takes me a while to realize it wasn't. I also have some specific phobias. It really hasn't done anything for those, but it's done a lot for my anxiety. | M | 18 | 1 years | 5/16/2007 | 4 | Anxiety, Depression | Difficulty climaxing!! Weight gain, decreased enthusiam/energy to do things. Hard to be motivated. Increased appetite. | Lexapro helped me get through a very rough time in my life and for that I am thankful. Now I am trying to get off of the meds (pretty rough) to alleviate the negative side effects and return to a more natural state. I recommend Lexapro. | F | 24 | 9 months | 5/15/2007 | 4 | Difficulty Breathing | Insomnia getting on and off the medication, and crazy dreams every time I sleep! | For a long time I thought I had asthma because I would struggle to breathe for weeks at a time, but my doctor ended up deciding that it was all related to anxiety, so he put me on Lexapro. It almost completely helps my breathing! The side effects aren't so bad, my mood is pretty much the same, which is fine because it was good to begin with. I tried getting off the medication, and it was a little rough, but I had to get back on again because the breathing problems started again. I would recommend Lexapro. | F | 20 | 9 months | 5/15/2007 | 2 | Anxiety, Depression, | Extreme sexual disfunction, followed by suicidal thoughts. I had diahrea upwards of 30 times a day for the first week. Could not control bowels and frequently soiled myself. Rapid heartbeat occasionaly when stressed. Gained over 100 pounds the first year. My life was one long headache, but i felt buzzed all the time. | My doctor took me off of lexapro because it made me get a DWI... i was drinking and we think the lexapro made me have such a good mood that in the moment i thought it was ok to drink and drive. I do not recommend this drug to anyone. | M | 32 | 1 years | 5/15/2007 | 5 | Stress Issues | none | I am completely happy with Lexapro. It softens the rough edges in life so I can better deal with it. It is worth taking and I am glad for it. Although i am taking the 20 mg as with the 10mg i still had the edgy feel after 30 days. | F | 25 | 10 months | 5/14/2007 | 4 | anxiety, panic attacks | first day slept all day. Now teeth clenching at night. Insomnia, weight gain, increased appetite. The worst symptom is my lack of enthusiasm. I don't get excited about fun events as I used to. I have a flat feeling. | The lexapro did pretty much stop the panic attacks and anxiety. I am trying other natural methods though and hope to wean myself off this drug.I don't like feeling drugged. | F | 53 | 2 months | 5/14/2007 | 4 | Social anxiety | I have been on lexapro for almost 8 months and it has helped me tremendously! I had a very hard time accepting that i have a chemical imbalance and almost tried every therapy and method in the world to get over it with little sucess. This drug has given my life back and i can function once again. If you try it, stick with it for two months or so before switching, you won't feel the difference for about 6 weeks or so. The sideeffects are almost all gone, just some jaw clenching. | M | 31 | 8 months | 5/13/2007 | 1 | depression | suidical feelings | I took this medication for a month before I started getting extreme suicidal feelings, which I had not had before taking it. | F | 19 | 1 months | 5/13/2007 | 3 | depression | i cannot climax(really sux) decreased appetite | honestly i dont feel like its really helping me much(maybe my dosage is to low 10mg)..side effects arent to bad compared to some i saw...I tried to stop taking it because im tired of being on all these meds(lexapro,trazadone,xanax)but the withdrawl is pretty bad to me i got dizzy spells,moody,depression,just didnt feel all there)I hate the fact that i ever let my doctor prescribe me any of this shit... | F | 28 | 9 months | 5/12/2007 | 2 | Binge eating, anxiety, OCD | Never felt like doing anything (went from working out 5x/wk to hardly at all!). It really made me apathetic. Could sleep 15 hours a night. Gained some weight but I think it was the binge eating. Sometimes felt like it could just sit and stare at the TV all day. | I was pretty OCD before Lex but on this med I went from one extreme to the other! Yes, it majorly helped with anxiety but only because I didn't give a hoot about anything! Also, a big reason I went on this med was to help with the urge to binge eat and it did nothing to help this compulsion (maybe it made me me not care as much when I did binge!). Now I'm trying Celexa which is in the same family but my doc said it's less "site specific" (maybe not as potent??) so it shouldn't make me as apathetic/blah. REALLY hope it helps with the binging. | F | 25 | 3 months | 5/12/2007 | 5 | depression/GAD | For the first 3 days I experienced, metallic taste and very dry mouth, fatigue, insomnia, jumpy legs, clenched jaw, loss of appetite, foggy brained, slight muscle spasms, dilated pupils, constipation. Insomnia and jumpy legs stuck around for about 2 weeks. Difficulty reaching orgasm is the only side effect that has not gone away. | Lexapro has changed my life. I have gone to therapy for 7 plus years and struggled to "feel normal" on my own for years. I hit my own personal rock bottom this winter and decided to try medication. I felt the depression lifting within one week and here and there I felt and realized the anxiety was being replaced by confidence and ease. I am no longer in my head all the time and finally feel what it is like to live in the moment without emotional and mental struggle. I am so grateful for this medication I finally feel on the inside what I worked so hard to maintain on the outside all these years. I started out on 10mg once a day for 7 days and then swithed to 20mg once a day, it was a very smooth transition. | F | 32 | 2 months | 5/10/2007 | 5 | Moderate depresion & anxiety | Nausea, decreased appetite, the shakes, incresed heart palpitations. | I started taking Lexapro 2 years ago-5mg for the first 2 weeks then 10mg after. For the first 3-4 days I had nausea, a decreased appetite, heart palpitations and my hands were shaking. After those 3-4 days those side effects went away. I felt less depression and my tendency to be anxious over trivial things subsided. Due to issues at work my anxiety level ratcheted up earlier this year. I've now been on 20mg for a month now and things are going well again. | F | 28 | 2 years | 5/10/2007 | 3 | Anxiety w/ Depression | Fairly intense agitation and increased anxiety/panic. My legs are very restless so now I look like some crazy person with legs bouncing up and down! | I've been off and on Lexapro several times over the past couple of years. My wife says that she sees a pronounced difference. It's a constant up and down because I do better on it in many ways, but the side effects, which include very little interest in sex and extreme agitation at times, are difficult to deal with. It's going on 3 weeks now at 5mg so I'll suck it up and stick with it for awhile. I take Klonipin to reduce the agitation as needed. | M | 40 | 3 weeks | 5/10/2007 | 3 | depression | dizziness, increased appetite, when combined with marijuana it can cause demon-possessed-like symptoms which include: hallucinations, body contortions, eyes rolling in the back of the head, and dry mouth | I know mixing any psych drug with mind altering drugs is a gamble, but my doctor was aware of the recreational drug use and never warned me. The side effects accompanied with the drug interaction only took about 10 minutes to start after smoking and then tapered off gradually for the next two hours. I don't remember any of the things I said or did while experiencing the drug interaction. Other than this extreme side effect, the medicine works about as well as expected. | M | 19 | 4 months | 5/10/2007 | 2 | depression | total sexual shutdown, apathy, weight gain | I didn't realize until I switched medications how badly Lexapro was effecting me. It was like living in a glass cage everyday. Nothing bothered me much, but I wasn't feeling much at all. It was not difficult to maintain an erection but there was no emotional desire there to back it up. If it works for you, great. It was just awful for me. | M | 30 | 2 years | 5/10/2007 | 2 | depression | total sexual shutdown, apathy, weight gain | I didn't realize until I switched medications how badly Lexapro was effecting me. It was like living in a glass cage everyday. Nothing bothered me much, but I wasn't feeling much at all. It was not difficult to maintain an erection but there was no emotional desire there to back it up. If it works for you, great. It was just awful for me. | M | 30 | 2 years | 5/10/2007 | 4 | anxiety, mild depression | Major diaherra, nausea, dry mouth, basically felt like I was pregnant or had the flu. | My doctor added 10mg of Lexapro to my 150mg of Wellbrutrin. I tried 300mg of Wellbrutrin but it made me way to anxious. I want to encourage everyone to wait out the side effects. I wanted to quit on day 2, which was the worst, but I read other posts and decided to try at least a week. I am so glad I did. today is day 8 and I feel really good. I am happy and not anxious. I am a little OCD and have to have my house in total order to relax, even that sympton is gone. I still like to be neat, but it doesn't control me. I can laugh and enjoy my family and my life. Please give it a chance. The side effects will go away. God Bless! Also, be careful when searching the internet. There are a lot of negatives written about Lexapro. I think most people who post give into the side effects and quit. try to wait it out.... | F | 44 | 8 days | 5/9/2007 | 3 | depression | For a brief time I was yawning a lot, would get shaky if I hadn't eaten and occasionally for the first few days had a dizzy spell here and there. | My husband has noticed a dramatic difference in my levels of irritability. I feel like the edge has been taken off for me and I do laugh a bit more and feel a bit more at ease. I expected to feel better than this, though. | F | 36 | 6 weeks | 5/9/2007 | 5 | severe anxiety | I felt better in an instant | It has changed my life for the best, I haven't felt this good in years | F | 44 | 1 years | 5/8/2007 | 5 | anxiety and depression | none | F | 43 | 7 months | 5/8/2007 |