Tapering
Hi everyone.
I take 7.5mg Lexapro, 25mg buspar and 40mg liquid gabapentin (tapering off this) for anxiety and OCD. I started these meds about 1.5 years ago.
My anxiety and OCD is basically completely controlled with this combination.
The problem is I have sexual side effects from Lexapro and I have fatigue and brain fog from Lexapro and potentially buspar (dr said unlikely buspar can cause this but not 100% sure).
My options are bupropion or taper down slowly on Lexapro and buspar. My thoughts are to slowly taper down Lexapro to 5mg (I have liquid version so I can go down 10-15% a month) and then taper buspar down to 15mg and see.
Second option is bupropion, I tried bupropion for a week actually and it actually helped massively with brain fog energy and sexual side effects but I do not want to become dependent on yet another med.
Thoughts on what to do? My psychiatrist said it’s up to me, so that’s why I’m asking.