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 | depression | high level sexual side effects--intolerable for any long period of time. | I have been depressed most of my adult life and have resisted taking any medication for over 20 years. I always felt like I could cope regardless of my state of mind, but finally when I realized I was no longer able to function in normal day-to-day life, I decided that I needed to do something I vowed I would never do--take medication. I only wish I had done it sooner. It has completely changed my life for the better. I am also taking wellbutrin xl for sexual side effects, and it does help with that but I am still not back to normal. | F | 49 | 6 months | 1/4/2007 | 3 | depression | dizziness when I stop taking it. nausea if I take it on an empty stomach. | I started taking this because all I wanted to do was sleep and cry. It definitely helped at the beginning but when i got home from a vacation recently, I lapsed back into a heavy sleeping habit. So today I took three pills instead of two. Tomorrow morning I will see if it worked. If I can get out of bed in the morning, it worked. | F | 17 | 6 months | 1/4/2007 | 1 | panic attacks | bizarre, vivid dreams, memory loss, rampant behavioral change between letargy, excitability, depression, and plotted against- all in the same day. Bizarre reaction to alcohol- did not feel drunk, or even that I had had anything to drink- can't even begin to explain what this stuff is like with alcohol, making bizarre and irrational comments in conversations with other people that are totally out of context. | My assistant thinks I'm nuts, my boss is coming down, I make inappropriate and poorly advised comments to people in conversation and never did that before, I feel seperated from myself and can feel anywhere from totally high in a sped-up way, to tragically hopeless in a few hours, I have outstanding orgasms, and intense sex drive. In that respect (and that respect only) I feel like I'm 14 again. But I have paid a huge cost to have a higher sex drive. This has done nothing to help anxiety, and the memory of my former self is a faint relic that is rapidly giving way to a new personality that I can't stand. | M | 27 | 5 weeks | 1/4/2007 | 5 | Depression | Dry mouth, foggy head, night sweats, difficulty orgasming. Side effects went away after several weaks and the difficulty orgasming wasn't that bad to deal with. | Took Lexapro a few years ago due to depression with anxiety. Stareted at 5mg and ramped up to 20mg within a few weeks. Hit the anxiety at 5mg and knocked out depression at 20mg within a week and a half at the dose. I didn't experience much peaks and valleys...seemed to be a steady improvement day to day. I tappered off ayear ago. Side Note: This last week was feeling depressed...may be SAD. Not a strong depression but no something to not address. Took 5mg for 3 days and now have been on 10 mg for 2. Same sides as last time but already a vast improvement in the depression. Something to keep in mind for those reading forums like these hoping to find answers. Every one is different. There is the possibility that the intial kicking in of the medication will make you feel worse or more uneasy. Don't quit so easy. It is a rare few who seem to feel no side effects when starting these type of medications. Most effects go away within weeks...except the sexual ones and even those tend to | M | 37 | 1 years | 1/3/2007 | 5 | GAD/obsessive thoughts | The only side effects I have experienced are delayed ejaculation and some loss of libido. | Asides from sexual side effects, Lexapro has been phenomenal for my anxiety as well as obsessive thoughts. they have almost completely disappeared. it kicked in very quickly: 4 days or so. started at 10mg, then went to 20mg after two weeks, and just went up to 30mg after two months. will see if there is any difference between 10mg and 20mg. can't tell yet, though. i had been on celexa for six years, and celexa didn't work as well on my anxiety as lexapro has. | M | 30 | 3 months | 1/3/2007 | 5 | ANXIETY..OCD..DEPRESSION | DIFFICULTY REACHING ORGASM | THIS DRUG SAVED MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MY WIFE AND MADE ME FEEL LIKE "ME" AGAIN. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND LEXAPRO TO ANYONE WITH OCD, ANXIETY OR DEPRESSION. IT WORKED VERY FAST FOR ME...ABOUT FOUR DAYS. I STARTED WITH 10MG AND TWO WEEKS LATER WENT TO 20MG WHICH IS PERFECT. TRY LEXAPRO...GOOD LUCK!! | M | 36 | 6 months | 1/3/2007 | 3 | anxiety & depression | makes me tired immediately when i take it so I try to take it right before bed. Makes me lazy. I literally can sit on the couch for hours watching tv and it seems ok to do that! | F | 33 | 2 weeks | 1/3/2007 | 2 | depression bipolar anxiety | 10 mg zombifies you but works great for anxiety | worked great for anxiety | M | 6 months | 12/29/2006 | 4 | depression | Insomnia for about a week; I can sleep normally now. I've lost several pounds - i was told this medicine won't affect your weight, but I've had a decrease in appetite since I've started taking Lexapro. I haven't noticed any other side effects. | I was shocked when the doctor told me that I might be suffering from depression due to a chemical imbalance! I didn't want to beleive it. I decided to take this medicine (5mg for 14 days then increased to 10 mg/day) and i've noticed a change in my mood in about three days!! It's not so hard to get out of bed anymore and I've started working on my goals again. Although the medicine seems to work, I hope I can eventually stop taking it and find a more holistic "cure". I wish you all the best!! | F | 34 | 1 months | 12/28/2006 | 3 | GAD and Major Depression | Weight Gain (about 20 pounds), Headaches, Short Term Memory Loss | This is my second time around on Lexapro - I first time I was on it for a year and then it just stopped working. I had no side effects. I started taking a different antidepressant but then changed back to Lexapro. I have currently been on Lexapro for about a year. This round I am experiencing all types of side effects. The medicine has begun not work anymore like my first time taking it. Maybe it is time to switch again.. | F | 22 | 2 years | 12/27/2006 | 5 | Temporal Lobe E. | Somnolence, nausea, apathy, partial closing of the throat, extremely difficult to orgasm, weight loss (loss of appetite) etc. | I first rated this drug as 3, but now 5 most definately. Though it has its side effects, I dont care. It makes me feel like a normal person, calms me down, calms my obsessive compulsive thoughts, I dont dwell on irrelevent and negative things. I don't overreact and I sleep so much better. It has vastly reduced my appetite probably due to the nausea, have lost about 10lbs so far. I am very grateful that I was exposed to this drug. I don't want to come off it! | F | 18 | 2 months | 12/26/2006 | 3 | anxiety | tremor | M | 40 | 25 days | 12/24/2006 | 3 | anxiety depression | insomnia which lead to sleepiness during day, dazed, head fog | I have taken 40 mg of lexapro for 7 months and it has helped in general with anxiety but the effect is wearing off. I don't like being on these drugs so i am dropping the dosage down to 20 mg. In general though lately I have been feeling just apathetic all the time. I am generally just not interested in things. And tired | M | 19 | 7 months | 12/24/2006 | 4 | Panic Attacks | Depending on when I take this sometimes it can keep me awake. When I miss a dose I feel sleepy and very on-edge like I could jump out of my skin. | It helps me a great deal, as long as I remember to take it I normally don't have any problems with it. | F | 27 | 2 years | 12/23/2006 | 4 | anxiety | none, so far | and I usually really do lose weight when I eat less and do more. Bottom line is that if your depression has made it impossible to get a decent night of sleep and you take a medication that allows you to sleep a good, restful 6-9 hours and you don't do anything else different, you probably will gain some weight. If you've been a zombie, sleeping all night, and most of the day too, and you start a medication that acutally motivates you to GET OUT OF YOUR BED and move, interact, live life you may just lose a bit of weight even if you eat the exact same amount simply because you are no longer 99% sedentary. Don't get me wrong, I just came off Effexor witch, although great with my anxiety, just had too many other unpleasent issues. I now can say that I have first-hand experience with physical withdrawal. I've felt what I can best describe as electrical neurons firing up and down both arms and brain shivers. I've alternated between sweating and shivering. I could post on the internet | F | 33 | 1 months | 12/22/2006 | 4 | anxiety | none, so far | I've been on and off AD's for over 10 years. This is the 5th type I've taken and the 6th time I've tried an AD. Firstly, for ANYONE who has been on a drug less than 2-4 weeks, unless you are experiencing a "true" allergic reaction or are experiening someting that makes you feel either suicidal or homocical, I'd give it a little more time -- I'm not talking months or years, but any drug of this type typically states in very straightforward lanuage that it WILL take time to become both effective and for your body to adjust. You probably didn't become anxious/depressed overnight and you likely won't feel "normal" overnight. Now, let's tackle weight! I'm a long-term thyroid patient -- have been successfully treated as both hyperthyroid and hypothyroid. When I was first diagnosed approx. 7 years ago I did vigorous internest research about what was happening and what I could expect. I CANNOT stress enough how many individuals posted about being "lab-test resul | F | 33 | 1 months | 12/22/2006 | 3 | Depression | Nausea, tremmors, yawning, jaw clenching | Compared to Zoloft, Prozac and Cipramil, the side effects were truly moderate. On the flip side, the positive effects are, so far, also moderate. | M | 28 | 5 weeks | 12/22/2006 | 5 | Anxiety and Depression | slight weight gain, headaches early on | I have officially been on Lexapro for 3 weeks and it has allowed me to function again. I feel 100% better. My advice to anyone on it in the early stages is to give it time as it will take a while for you to feel better. | M | 27 | 3 weeks | 12/20/2006 | 4 | Anxiety/depression, paranoia, OCD | weight gain, unable to achieve sexual climax, jaw clenching, vivid dreams | I felt alive again after taking Lexapro for only a few weeks. It is such a dramatic improvement that I am willing to tolerate the negative side effects. The doctor said to skip a dose on the day I intend to have sex if I want to climax, but I get very hostile and irritable when I skip doses, so I don't do it very often. For me, the positives definitely outweigh the negatives, because I'd rather feel good mentally than physically, but it would be great if "they" could come up with something better. It's a shame there has to be such a trade off. | F | 47 | 7 months | 12/20/2006 | 5 | depression/anxiety | Sleepiness. Less interested in food!!! | I've only been on it for 2 days but am VERY hopeful based on comments from friends and what I've read online. And if I continue to be less interested in food, that will be the icing on the cake.... so to speak. Also, for people commenting on how difficult it is to wean yourself off of a medication, I was on Celexa a while ago for insomnia. It didn't work for the insomnia, and I had a heck of a time getting off of it. Did some research online and found Glutathione. I got the sublingual tablets at a health food store and I was off Celexa in just a few days. Maybe it will help someone else. | F | | 12/19/2006 |