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Lexapro withdrawal help

By Lanny7634 | 273 posts, last post
Iliriana Bisha Tagani, MD answered this Lexapro - Antidepressant Withdrawal
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Withdraw! Yes it's hard but this drug affects not only the brain but the gut down the road!! I have been in a slow taper for 6 months from 10mg to 4mg. Hope to be completely off in 4 more months!! The reason for this slow taper is due to the fact that I tried once before in a 2 month period with horrible results! Good Luck and don't give up!!! Warmest regards.

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Guest

Naural ingredients is the answer. Take a probiotic! I take Natren Plus.helping me immensely. Also source natural essential enzymes 2 before each meal. Never go back on this poison!!!!!!

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This has been an awful pill! I started taking Lexapro almost 2 years ago. I started off on 10MG, got bumped up to 15MG. I told my doctor I wanted to wean off and he said that it was going to be hard b/c I was "addicted" well I decided to do it on my own. I dropped down to 10MG for a few months, then to 5MG, then to 2.5MG. Today makes a week that I've been without the Lexapro. I did try to quit cold turkey, but I had a horrible experience of being dizzy, I couldn't drive myself to work! So weaning was my best option. I still wake up feeling exhausted, very irritated, short tempered, weight gain, extremely emotional.. I'm sorry I ever started taking this medication. this is ridiculous!

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Guest

Yes yes and yes the weight gain is terrible I was told this wouldn't happen . I am getting off this drug was on it far to long , just another example of being told take this to mask a problem that was caused by an emotional trauma . I would rather face my problems no matter how painful at least your time isn't wasted being tired and getting nothing accomplished that's the true hell of this drug! !!interesting
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Guest

I was on lexapro for two days, horrible reaction to it. I was never depressed but I had a few panic attacks so my doctor put me on it. I took the pills at night and the last one was Monday night, a week ago today, and my head is very cloudy still and I am anxious. Is this from the lexapro? Please help!
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Guest

Hi yes I have been on them for 16 years and now I'm comming off them myself. I do feel sick to but it's got to feel better than being an unmotivated zombie. I'm doing it slowly hope it gets better too. It will be an adjustment and I'm scared too but I want to know myself again good and bad.
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Guest

Hi any information on how you went getting off. When did this feeling of dizziness and head rush go please
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Guest

Yes I put on 30 kilos in 5 years
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Guest

So what did you do - go back ? im in the same predicament ...
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any better now....? i went cold turkey and it's been a week and now i think i should go back to 10mg or 5mg?
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Guest

I weened off of Lexapro twice in my life. This last time is for good. Both times that I weened off were after I had been taking it daily for anywhere from 3-5 years. Those brain shocks from withdrawal only ever lasted about 10-14 days before they subsided.

Now that I have been completely free from Lexapro for a little over a year, I am still experiencing problems "finding the word" when I'm speaking to people. It's like I could be looking right at a familiar object but I completely don't remember the word to use to identify it. I also have difficulty completing sentences, and my verbal vocabulary feels very stunted. I'm concerned because it has been over a year since my body is devoid of any trace of Lexapro, yet I am still experiencing aphasiatic side effects regarding normal vocabulary and sentence completion. Can anyone else relate or help?
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ailah

I was in treatment and I got put on 10mg lexapro. I got out about a week ago and I stopped taking my med's. I don't feel sick, I get little "zap" feelings. I'm not going to ween off because I will never get off. Just deal with the withdraws for a week or two.
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I was on Lexapro (10-20mg) since 2009. By 2015, I realized how much it messed with me, and weened off it last summer, taking my last pill in July. For the first few months, I experienced the brain zaps, irritability and fatigue. I became more stressed as well. It's been 10 months, and I feel worse than ever. I cry all the time; it's uncontrollable. I'm so moody and anything sets it off. I've had some thoughts that I won't say are suicidal, but are just very unsettling to me. I can't tell if this is normal for when you go off of this terrible medicine, or if I'm just going crazy. I guess the best way to say it is, for the past three months, my brain has felt so unbalanced. Does it get better in time, will I ever feel the way I did before I started taking this?
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Hi all, what a relief to find this sight . I was on lexapro for close to 7 yrs for anxiety and depression . I have gained close to 60 pounds ( very depressing ) the lexapro was part of it but I also feel while on the medication it made me not care how, or what I was eatting I also was over indulging with drinking wine . Hence the 60 pound weight gain . I started weening my self off over the last few months and am now completely off off it . The with drawl had been awful . Nausea sweating extreme anxiety mild depression brain fog difficulty concentrating . The simplest tasks are exhausting . I couldn't take it any more my doctor put me on Prozac to help with the symptoms . Have just taken my second dose . Symptoms are improved about 30percent . Hoping at some point to be off meds completely . I stopped drinking ,and started see a therapist have lost about 15 pounds . oh I also have insomnia even with taking Benadryl or other natural sleep aids to help . Averaging 2-3 hours of sleep (wont be able to handle this for too long ) hoping the Prozac will help with this after a week or so . I definitely feel people need to be warned by their doctors of what to expect before going on antidepressants so an informed decision can be made before for starting them . Hoping in the next week I feel better . Good luck to everyone out there that is dealing with this . It is no fun .
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Guest

I can honestly relate 100% to everything you have said. I am always a happy go lucky person and I am complete opposite now. The worse part is my husband gives me no support whatsoever. He just wants me to snap out of it and be happy again. If I only could.....

I do not wish this on anyone. Hope you are feeling better soon

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