I was on Lexapro for several months. 10mgs. I'm a very small person. I stopped taking it because I didn't get my prescription picked up and thought I would wait until the following week. After a couple days I started feeling CRAZY... dizzy, just wierd. I did something out of my character completely... I stole a credit card and went shopping like a mad person.. then realized what I did and felt incrediable sorrow and grief and felt like ending my life. I am seeing a Psych about this and now facing legal issues but need help from ANYONE please out there.. has anyone heard of such a thing? I'm a bit manic and I know going off the Lexpro made me do something I would never do and it was like I couldn't control my actions or thoughts.. I'm in my 40's and never ever in my life had done anything closely related to this. I'm possibly going through the beginning of menapause too... Please any help will be so beneficial to me. Thank you and God Bless you.
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yes, my bro becomes crazy when he skips his medication. I am not sure which drug he is taking, but it was for his depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
When he was crazy.
He wanted to take of his clothes, he kept telling amazing stories, that harmed people.
When he was sent to the medical ward for his own good, he ended up with bruises on his leg and knees. He claimed that one of the patients there beat him up, and sodomized him.
Later on another episode, he kept dropping from the chair and onto his knees, hurting himself. Amazingly, the bruises looks similar.
When he was crazy.
He wanted to take of his clothes, he kept telling amazing stories, that harmed people.
When he was sent to the medical ward for his own good, he ended up with bruises on his leg and knees. He claimed that one of the patients there beat him up, and sodomized him.
Later on another episode, he kept dropping from the chair and onto his knees, hurting himself. Amazingly, the bruises looks similar.
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i haven't taken my lexapro for over a week. i just suddenly stopped. i went crazy last nite i was so mean to a good friend of mine. i went crazy. i didn't feel suicidal or anything didn't want to physically hurt someone. i just couldn't stop yelling and saying mean things. i feel lost and confused. i thought this was a non habit forming medication
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I've been on 20mg for 18mo and just stopped a week ago, I have been using an herbal substance which is not legal everywhere to mitigate the headaches and it seems to calm me down. I find that I am jolting with energy, I have been actually "shocking" things with my hand, and have had uncontrollable laughter. No jolts yet.. but good luck these drugs are too damn expensive and cause more problems than they help. I constantly would sleep through class and important events and just be totally nonchalant and careless.
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Hey Kaybe,
I am detoxing from Lexapro and acting crazy as well. I went off 30 mg cold turkey. I have found two web sites helpful if you want to continue withdrawals from the medication. Point of Return and The Road Back are both not for profit--although they are tied to companies that sell natural supplements that can give you good information.
After being off Lexapro for 24 days, the dizziness has subsided, but my irritability, excitability, and unpredictability continue. I see a naturalist tomorrow to help me with the withdrawal. I am hoping that I can treat my depression/bi-polar II/anxiety with alternative remedies. I am going to chronicle my experiences on a blog i just created tonight to help others that want to withdrawal. There is a little info out there, but not nearly enough.
Please feel free to add to my blog. My desire is to start a dialog about prescription mental health drugs and their dangers.
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I am detoxing from Lexapro and acting crazy as well. I went off 30 mg cold turkey. I have found two web sites helpful if you want to continue withdrawals from the medication. Point of Return and The Road Back are both not for profit--although they are tied to companies that sell natural supplements that can give you good information.
After being off Lexapro for 24 days, the dizziness has subsided, but my irritability, excitability, and unpredictability continue. I see a naturalist tomorrow to help me with the withdrawal. I am hoping that I can treat my depression/bi-polar II/anxiety with alternative remedies. I am going to chronicle my experiences on a blog i just created tonight to help others that want to withdrawal. There is a little info out there, but not nearly enough.
Please feel free to add to my blog. My desire is to start a dialog about prescription mental health drugs and their dangers.
***edited by moderator*** web addresses not allowed
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I've been on lexapro for almost three years, the first year was 10 mg, the second and third was 20 mg, and for the last two weeks i went back to 10mg to wean off...now i've been without any for three days...dizziness and all that...but i hadn't connected my increasingly out of character behavior since beginning lexapro...I have been a madwoman! I've gotten in fights, done really dumb, unthinking stuff, running from police and hiding in people's yards, drinking a lot, no sex whatsoever....I'm 30 and though Lexapro changed my life for the better when I began it, I think it's time to be off it...I've heard you can stop taking antidepressants and your old symptoms may not come back..the depression and anxiety. Is that true? I know I've learned to deal with certain issues while I had the lexapro...so maybe that's what it is...wonder if I should tell my doc what's going on and that I'm stopping...
hope someone replies.
Good luck to everyone....Amber
hope someone replies.
Good luck to everyone....Amber
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I had been on Lexapro for 2 mo or so. I had to skip an appoinment and just went without. BAD IDEA!!! That week has been the worst and forever. I am a non fucntioning alcoholic drug addict. Clearly i have anxiety issues. Apparently I dont need to drink to get violent and totally lose m temper. I had the cops called, problems at work. Most importantly I fought so bad and treated my Wife so disrespectfully. You would have thought I was a blacked out drunk the way I have behaved. Thankfullymy doctor called in my script. Anyone have violent episodes and not warned about this med?
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