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 |
| 3 | depression/anxiety | jaw clinching and some what confuesed i guess you can say or feeling like i dont care easy come easy go | I have only been on it a couple of days but feel like i cant be sad because its like i dont feel.... very weird im not.. sure i have been on paxil,zyprexa,prozac,risperdal,cymbolta,i dont think any of them help maybe im beyond help sux i know does anyone know how long it takes to work just e mail me or something i dunno | F | 26 | 4 days | 11/8/2006 | 2 | Anxiety | Delayed orgasm, twitching, severe apathy | This drug made me not care about anything. I stopped playing golf, and my other hobbies went neglected as well. Unfortunately, I also didn't care about my marriage anymore. I told my wife I wanted a divorce, I sold off my show car, and cashed out the equity in my house giving it all to my wife without caring at all. I discontinued the drug and within a week started caring again and now am trying to deal with the financial and emotional disaster I caused. I never would have done these things had I been myself. Nobody warns you about the apathy when you start this drug, had I known that I would no longer care about the people and things I love, I would have never started taking this drug. | M | 39 | 360 days | 11/8/2006 | 3 | depression | none but it's taking a long time to start working compared to the effexor I was taking...but at least now I'm able to get a good nights' sleep | Switched to Lexapro after taking Effexor for 2 weeks. Effexor worked on my depression/anger within 2 days and I was like a new person.....but couldn't sleep and had headaches and constipation. I was really worried about the side effects and withdrawal symptoms I'd read about. Switched to Lexapro and the plus is that I'm able to sleep very well, but really miss the strong positive mood effect of Effexor. Lexapro is very subtle to me and my anger flashes are returning, thought maybe not to the same extent. I was really expecting them to be the same, just w/o side effect. Oh well. Will give it more time, but am tempted to go back on effexor and take a sleeping pill, so my family won't have to deal with my crappy temper. | F | 42 | 9 days | 11/7/2006 | 2 | bipolar, anxiety, mood swings. | weight gain ( +10 pounds in 2 months ), difficulty waking up, vivid nightmares (switched from prozac because of decrease in sex drive), with lexapro i have NO libido (before meds i had a more than healthy sexual appetite),i have no interest in ANYTHING, in people in activities, lexapro did not help with my depression or anxiety,I also take clonopins but rarely.I have had NOTHING but bad side effects and my mania and mood swings gradually have come back, along with suicidal thoughts, and heavy depression. currently on 40mg a day.MyPMS and cramps are as bad as when i wasnt on my meds. | i want to go back on prozac (any other options here?), it worked for a while but i had to keep upping my dosage (was at 80mg/day) and i started having loss of libido, but at least i wasnt gaining a pound a day, and my bipolarism was under control. I dont know what to do next... | F | 27 | 2 months | 11/4/2006 | 3 | Panic disorder/GAD | Weight gain, terrible jaw clenching, very vivid dreams. | It worked wonders for a while, but after four months my jaw aches so badly I can't handle it, and I've gained 15 pounds in this short time. I want to get off this drug, but the withdrawal symptoms I've read about scare me. These days I am feeling more anxious then ever and have recently started having panics again and not being able to sleep. It's wierd. | F | 24 | 4 months | 11/3/2006 | 3 | Anxiety | Was taking 150 mg Effexor XR and having terrible time with side effects, muscle twitches, shaking, stomach pain, constipation, decrease sex drive, unable to oragasm and unable to sleep through the night. Doc switched me over to 5 mg Lexapro for 1 week, then increased dosage to 10 mg. Side effects from the Effexor have decreased but still unable to orgasm and still have severe stomach pain which could be exacerbating mild gastritis condition. | Also taking Wellbutrin XL which works well for my depression and good match with Lexapro. I'm having less trouble with anxiety and panic attacks have stopped. I have lost 15 lbs and continue to lose because of the stomach pain. Considering stopping the Lexapro and using Xanax as needed for the anxiety. Have done this in the past and works well under less stressful circumstances. | F | 44 | 5 weeks | 11/2/2006 | 2 | Depression / Stress / Chronic Pain | Nausea, foggy head, vivid dreams, headache, drymouth, TIRED, couldn't sleep through night. | After taking this for one day and reading the comments, I'm saying NO WAY! The side effects are going to be to much for me. Sex is very important to me and I dont want to gain any weight b/c that is part of my depression. I guess you just really have to weigh the benefits of taking it to the side effects. | F | 24 | 1 days | 11/2/2006 | 1 | Depression/PCOD | Headache, Jaw clenching, nausea, worse depression, suicidal thoughts, impulsive behavior, difficulty reaching orgasm, apathy, flash anger, hallucinations (both auditory and visual), confusion about time/place/people, tiredness but unable to sleep, made me ramble (almost like I had no internal monologue). | I have been taking lexapro for 1 week and This medication has seperated me from reality. I feel like I'm watching myself from a different demension. The world looks strange and patchy. Somethings are fuzzy and some things arn't. before the medication I was a depressed and saw small insect every once in a while. Now on the medication (10mg) I see faces in cars, the walls to my cubicle are made of skin, the music I listen to at work is telling me to kill myself...I forget where I am sometimes. Yesterday (10/31/06) I thought it was the year 2001. It made me impulsive. I had long nails and I saw they were dirty and couldn't keep them clean so I bit them all off...then cut off the skin on my fingertips because it wouldn't come clean either. I was speaking with my father one day and saw his face as a monster from the movie Pulse. The doctor said its going to get worse before it gets better...I miss my bugs... | F | 20 | 1 weeks | 11/1/2006 | 4 | depression | When I was taking 10mg- no side effects. Taking 15mg-inability to orgasm | At the low dosage it was great. Really helped me feel like myself again. However when I needed the dosage increased, it made me unable to orgasm... I'm not sure what to do now. | F | 20 | 4 years | 10/31/2006 | 5 | Depression and Anxiety | Routine Side Effects for 4 weeks. Now no side effects. | Changed my life for the better in all ways. I can think, laugh, and work again. The drug does not "do" anything to me, except permit me to be myself. | M | 36 | 5 months | 10/30/2006 | 2 | depression | tiredness- all I wanted was to sleep all day. Sickness- curbed my depression enough that I quit taking it after three days and oh and voices- the first night- I heard about four comments out of nowhere. | I might try something different, it made me really sick. | F | 17 | 3 days | 10/30/2006 | 2 | OCD and depression | very tired, no sex drive at all, trouble sleeping at night | My doctor started me on 5 mg because of bad experiences I had with Prozac and Zoloft. Lexapro didn't make me dizzy like the other two did, but it made me so sluggish all the time. Then, after he increased me to 10 mg, I became even more depressed and cried all the time and was very suicidal. My doctor has switched me to Wellbutrin XL so we will see if that helps. Lexapro had NO good effects, only bad ones. | F | 27 | 1.5 months | 10/30/2006 | 3 | Anxiety/Mild Depression | It does help keep you calm and "happy" but I felt so helpless to the incredible weight gain and feeling sleepy a lot. I gained almost 20 lbs and for me that was a lot!! I have never weighed this much (165 at 5 ft tall) except when I was pregnant! | My doctor is weaning me off and has prescribed Wellbutrin. This should help with the weight gain and probably my feelings of fatigue. | F | 40 | 8 days | 10/29/2006 | 3 | anger management / depression | I often contemplate suicide Not sure whether I'll overcome that. I think anyone contemplating using this should be very cautious. | M | 54 | 6 months | 10/27/2006 | 1 | depression and anxiety | vomiting, diarhea, confusion, hot cold flashes irregular heart beat.....shall I go on | I will never take any prescried drug for depression ever. | F | 31 | 3 days | 10/27/2006 | 3 | depression | weight gain, loss of libido, apathy | It was great for a while: the depression disappeared and I didn't care about anything. But the not caring became a big problem: I did major financial damage, put on a lot of weight, and didn't care about not wanting sex. My husband said it was like I'd become someone else. I've been off of it for five months, and it was like waking up and being myself again. | F | 37 | 2 years | 10/26/2006 | 3 | OCD and Generalized Anxiety | Sweating around 4-6 hours after taking each dose. Slight nausea after eating food. Some loss of appetite and weight loss. Feeling out of it and in a daze. Runny nose, but I'm not sure that's related to the Lexipro RX. | I am a hyper-sensitive perfectionist who worries about every little thing to the detriment of my health and annoyance of those who know me. I worry most about disappointing others. I've taken 10mg of Lexapro per day for 12 days so far; and I am still a total worry-wart. But, I do have fewer obsessive and compulsive thoughts. I'm waiting for Lexapro to suddenly kick in. I hope that it makes me feel fearless and chilled, without stamping out my happy emotions. | F | 31 | 12 days | 10/26/2006 | 5 | Anxiety | Sexual desire totally gone. Weight gain. Jaw grinding. | Took a few weeks to start working. Am on 10mg and it really takes the edge off & makes me feel normal. I have been on it for 3 years and never realized the effect it's had on my weight...just thought it was the age thing. I've gained 20 pds in the past 3 years and am thinking of trying out the Wellbutrin. | F | 49 | 3 years | 10/25/2006 | 5 | OCD | went from very active libido to NO libido, sweating from any activity at all, grinding teeth, apathy, nail-biting, dizziness and disorientation & paranoia after skipping dosage for a couple of days. | I take 80 Mgs a day one dose, I don't see anyone here taking that high of a dose, it has my OCD areas under control, however I found it very easy to incorporate my disorder within my life to where they went unnoticed, looking back I DID have a severe case. | M | 55 | 3 years | 10/24/2006 | 1 | Depression, anxiety | Extreme fatigue and day-time sleepiness. Lack of eneregy and concentration. | Even drinking 3-4 cups of coffee with 150 mg wellbutrin and 200 mg of provigil could not prevent me from feeling "sleepy". This med is complete crap! Stay away from it! | M | 28 | 4 months | 10/23/2006 |