Lexapro Side Effects

[pixie_tinker]

Just a few questions. My doctor put me on Lexapro yesterday. I read so many topics on here about the drug and how it has terrible w/drawl symptoms. Does this drug make you extremely tired? I feel so tired today I can't stay awake. I am dizzy and out of it feeling. IS this typical of Lexapro? IS there another medication like this that is better? Like Wellbutrin, Zoloft?

[ihatedepression]

HORRIBLE side effects and withrawal is bad. I switched to Wellbutrin XL and feeling much better. Flush the lexapro......not worth it.

[Topa]

The Lexapro...
One year ago I started to take it because of panic attacks with agoraphobia. After one week I felt just woooooooonderful. Except 3 - 5 days of sickness no side effects. Super drug! - I thought. I was on this medicament for one year (to stabilize the effect, dr said) and than I stopped it slowly. NO withdrawal effect, all prima.
After another half a year - panic attack. Just by listening to the music, nice afternoon blabla we all know it. And again - permanent anxiety, every day, no sleeping... What did I do? I took the wonderful drug again! Again no appetite and sickness, but there was something else - head like 100 kg stone, anxiety and panic increased... Waiting 1 week, 2, 5, 8, 11... The anxiety is there! Panic attacks are less gone, I’m sleeping well - that’s true. But I still feel PERMANENT fear, always, smaller or bigger but he is always always with me. I fell sick. I stopped trusting Lexapro and dr told me to decrease the dose to 5 mg per day. I’ve been taking 5 mg for 3 days now, a bit tired but no really difference. AND NOW THE QUESTION COMES: If side effect of the drug, its withdrawal effect and the symptoms of sickness which we want to fight with it can be identical… Can somebody tell me how the ... shall we differentiate them? When can we say: this is my anxiety sickness, I should continue taking the drug because it can become worst without it? Or rather: this drug is making me more anxious, I should stop it, in fact maybe I am healthy again, I just don’t know it? And once more: this wonderful disappearing of my anxiety year ago was not due to Lexapro. The doctor told me it was not possible to feel so good from the drug just after starting taking it. Pity, that she realized it so late. Greetings for all and sorry for my English.

[CattleQueen]

I took Lexapro 1 1/2 years. It made me incredibly tired all the time. Only helped my anxiety and depression about 30%. My doctor gently switched me to Wellbutrin XL. The switch was smooth and the Wellbutrin XL helps me about 60% with few or no side effects.