r/lexapro

Day 2 and the nausea is kicking my butt - any tips or tricks to combat day time nausea? I know people will say take it at night but I would like to keep to a day time dosage :) thanks!

ive been on lexapro for nearly a year now and its genuinely saved my life. it's been going really well, i dont have any serious side effects except maybe weight gain, but i was around 95lbs (which is underweight for someone my height and sex) due to an eating disorder prior to starting the medication, so though ive gained nearly 25lbs this past year, i dont know that i can fully blame that on the medication.

lately, ive really started to notice how fundamentally different i am from the people around me and it really bothers me. one of those thigns is being dependent on lexapro. i don't know where id be without it. i dont like thinking about it because it honestly scares me to think about what would have happened if i didnt start medication. still, i wish i could be normal and seeing that people stop taking lexapro makes me feel like i should be aiming for that goal as well. my doctor has said before that it's up to me if i stop taking it or not, so im not looking for medical advice, im seeking out human experiences.

thank you :))

do you think it will still work?

I just started taking lexapro yesterday (10mg) and did not know that alcohol wasn’t a good mix with it until I picked up the medicine and read the prescription labels. I have a festival in 2 weeks (4 days long) where I’d probably be drinking most days. Am I cooked ? Or would I be fine doing like one drink a day? I’ve kinda been on a panic doom scroll on here and on tiktok researching people’s experiences, and I don’t know what to do haha

I just had emergency surgery on my jaw that will leave it and my teeth wired shut for the next three weeks. I’ve had good progress with my Lexapro, but it’s impossible for me to take a pill as I’m on a strict liquid diet. I can’t even have seeds in my smoothies; they literally cannot pass through my teeth.

My provider hasn’t been been able to get back to me (online medicine) with a very clear answer, so I’m hoping to hear if anyone here had a similar situation and found a way to work around it. I have looked online as well, but the answers aren’t very conclusive.

Thanks for any help or advice!

After waiting 18 weeks on 20mg of Lexapro alone I've decided that it's not quite enough, the anxiety spikes are still awful and I can't get enough good days to say that it's effective on it's own.

The doctor recommended/prescribed Quetiapine (I think commonly known as Seroquel) today, but I've never heard much about it. She prescribed 37.5mg once a night, wondering if anyone else has used this together and what if any side effects they had?

I found some old threads but looks like several years since anyone posted there and was hoping for a more recent experience. Thanks all

59 here..
A super young 59. In great shape.
However always had anxiety.
Most of the time I could keep it the anxiety at bay by meditating , gratitude checks, Tony Robbins daily priming etc.
I thought - I will never go on a med, I can do this all myself.
for awhile and most of the time -it worked
Until it didn't..

every 5 or so years I seem to get hit with a crisis that turns the anxiety into complete panic attacks.
In the past I could fight it off with my "training/breathing" and then it would level out.
However recently a new crisis came back(we will always have challenges in life) and the panic attacks went next level.

waking up in the morning was the absolute worst.
the sick feeling of a large knot in my stomach , light headiness, the spiral.
You all know it.
I would walk the dogs and listen to my meditation podcasts to help it.
it helped some but no where near what it did in the past.
I finally broke down went to the DR for the first time in 5 years (if it ain't broke...don't fix it) and he prescribed lexapro for me.
My wife has been on prozac for 15 years with great success.
I have been on Lexapro now a week.
Still hasn't been easy. The knot is still there in the AM immediately.

reading the positive stories here helps.
Thank you

I have been on Lexapro 20mg for 16 years. I am reducing to 15mg. Using drops to try to reduce withdrawal. So I went to 19mg 7 days ago. I am very tired and dizzy.

Did anyone experienced side effects after just 1mg reduction?

i’ve been on lexapro for 4 days now and it makes me nauseous for like the first half of the day (i take it in the morning). i have a concert tonight and have been really stressed and i want to let loose and have fun. i’m on 5mg and im normally a lightweight as it is (3-4 drinks gets me right). i’m only going to be drinking beer but im getting nervous about drinking. I WANT TO DRINK and have fun but I see so much stuff about how it horribly effects people. Will I be okay with just a few drinks?

I start 10mg thursday and im nervous

Need advice.

I am currently taking Lex at 10am. The last two nights at 10pm I felt awake and NORMAL. Reading this you might say, take it at night. However when I take it at 10am I cannot nap. If I can’t nap, how would it let me sleep if I switched to nights. My nights are a mess already, I am waking up several times so I’m exhausted during the day. Idk what to do.

At first, I came here to vent, but then I thought, “So what? What’s the point of saying all this? It’s not going to solve my problems.” But then I thought, if I don’t say anything, I’m genuinely going to explode.

So, here’s what my experience with escitalopram has been like over the past several years:

I started around the age of 18 — I’m 22 now. I started with a low dose, and it gradually went up. At one point, I was taking 30 mg, but now I’m on 20 mg.

A lot of fatigue. It feels like I was an Egyptian slave building the pyramids — they worked me until I had absolutely nothing left in me.

Zero motivation. Zero enthusiasm.

My sex drive also goes up a little from time to time, but then my depression gets worse and knocks me straight back down.

Even drinking tea makes me anxious.

And yeah, my problems are both anxiety and depression.

Eventually I realized I couldn’t keep going like this. I was basically flattened on the floor. The only thing I could manage to do was mindlessly scroll through social media.

Escitalopram genuinely saved my life. I mean that literally. But at the same time, it took away almost all of my motivation and drive.

So I talked to my doctor, and they prescribed Wellbutrin 300 mg for me. At first, it was 150 mg, but it didn’t really do anything. I felt better for the first few days — I wasn’t even yawning anymore — but then the effect just disappeared. It disappeared completely. So we increased it to 300 mg, and I’m still on 300 mg now, but honestly, it doesn’t seem to be working either.

I’ve realized something: as long as the environmental factors don’t change, as long as you have no money in your pocket, this is basically your fate — you just have to burn and endure it. Like me. 😐

I already had depression, and then God apparently decided to put Miyazaki in charge and design a Souls-like life for me.

Imagine living in Iran, dealing with insane inflation, going through two wars, having your internet cut off for like three months, and having basically no money in your pocket.

Just imagine that.

I’ve unlocked every single “shit went wrong” achievement. 💀

I honestly don’t know what else to say.

Seriously, I wish we at least had someone like Daddy Long Legs from Anne of Green Gables — someone to give us a little hope, someone who actually cared about us.

Nobody gives a shit about us. And when you talk about how miserable your life is, people just tend to run away from you even more.

Anyway, it feels like this world wasn’t designed for us.

It was designed for a few hundred million people who live in first-world countries and get to enjoy their lives.

We’re just here to make sure the stadium isn’t empty while the stars are playing their football match.

Hey guys,
Been on 10mg for 3 weeks.
Doc wants me to go up to 15mg starting tomorrow.
Will I get side effects again?
And any tips or advice would be awesome.

Cheers.

Lexapro did wonders for me. Stopped the overthinking and all that but a few things I hated.

1. Sweaty
2. Weight Gain
3. Low libido

I was tired of that and as a male I wanted to have my sexual drive back.

What I’ve noticed after 1 month without Lexapro. Sweating has drastically decreased. Finally losing weight and I have the urge to be sexual again.

Other noticings is my eyes get teary quickly. Like I want to cry. Few brain zaps.

I will always advocate for Lexapro but it was time for a break.

Lexapro for about two years, 10mg.

7.5 weeks off lexapro after being on it for 7.5 weeks and doing a 3 week taper & i still feel TERRIBLE. someone pls tell me it gets better!!!! like seriously idk how much longer i can deal w this i genuinely REGRET EVER TAKING IT. ( pls don’t suggest i start a new medication or reuse lexapro because im genuinely terrified of meds now! lexapro did me BAD )

Hello all! I’m starting 5mg of lexapro tomorrow night and I’m becoming super nervous based on some research I’ve been doing. I have pretty severe anxiety and OCD based on health and I just want some encouragement that side affects aren’t going to be permanent or anything super scary like akathisia and stuff. Thank you :) I’m literally shaking thinking it’s going to absolutely mess me up in some way