wait wait, I've been following your conversations and have been enlightened but Miles I'm confused as to why you are suggesting Augusto to stop taking
lexapro? you're actually on this thread expressing your views about your distrust in lexapro? While it's nice of you to share a link with us, (by the way, the link didn't work and just took me to the kangaroo homepage. i'd still like to read the story if you could post it again)...what is it that lexapro did to you that makes you so against it?
I've been on it for 4 months and i take
clonazepam throughout the day as needed in small dosages. before lexapro, I thought life was ending for me. I tried
zoloft and gained a crazy amount of weight... that depressed me more. I tried
effexor and i literally became erratic and felt the need to risk my life by being insane due to the reaction i had from it. My doc and I talked and we thought maybe i had a bipolar disorder and i tried
seroquel, which turned me into a zombie.
I'm diagnosed with anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder and depression. the lexapro has been wonderful. i'm not knocking you for having an opinion miles but please, get your MD before you recommend to Augusto that he stop taking lexapro. I think that's the psychiatrists job.
Please put up the lexapro story. I'm interested in reading it.
cheers,
The Dredgologist
UOTE=Miles;125126]Augusto99:
He may have been on other drugs as well, but bizarre side effects are clearly associated with Lexapro alone.
All the SSRIs are dangerous. A steady drip of studies have challenged the "serotonin did it" hypothesis. A 2003 mouse experiment suggested that SSRIs work by inducing the birth and growth of new brain neurons, not by monkeying with serotonin. In March, a review of decades of research concluded that something other than "changes in chemical balance might underlie depression." And as the authors of the review noted, although ads for SSRIs say they correct a chemical imbalance, "there is no such thing as a scientifically correct 'balance' of serotoni
There is little doubt that the SSRIs do what their name says, keeping more serotonin in the brain's synapses. But the fact that SSRIs act on the serotonin system does not mean that clinical depression results from a shortage of serotonin. No more so, anyway, than the fact that steroid creams help rashes means that rashes are caused by a steroid shortage.
A clue to how SSRIs do work comes from how long they take to have any effect. They rarely make a dent in depression before three weeks, and sometimes take eight weeks to kick in. But they affect serotonin levels right away. If depression doesn't lift despite that serotonin hit, the drugs must be doing something else; it's the something else that eases depression. The best evidence so far is that the something else is neurogenesis -- the birth of new neurons.
Some 19 million people in the U.S. suffer from depression in any given year. For many, SSRIs help little, if at all. To do better, we have to get the science right.
I believe it would be best to stop now. No need to taper after one week of use.
Best of luck!
Miles[/quote]