[Barbiegirl]

This is the first time that I have written to the forum but I have been reading it for the past month and it has offered me a lot of information and support in the recent withdrawal journey that I have begun. I hope that I can return the favor to the forum and offer some support to some of you.
I started taking Lexapro for severe depression brought on by my now ex-husband coming home from work one night (at X-mas time and while I was on vacation cooking him dinner!) and telling me that he wanted a divorce(also codeword for he had been having an affair) after ten years of marriage. Needless to say, I was completely and totally destroyed by this to the point that I could barely function. I went to my Family Practitioner and she of course as all of our good doctors, prescribed Lexapro 10MG for me. The medicine probably did save my life at the time. I can honestly say that I really didn't think that I would survive all of the pain that going through an unexpected divorce can cause. Somehow the Lexapro did help me manage to get out of the bed though. It took about a month for the medicine to really get into my system and I had all of the side effect that you all talk about-headaches, dizziness,nausea, insomnia,etc. After my body adjusted to the medicine, I slowly started to feel a little better and started the long and painful process of picking up the pieces of what was left of my life.
I stayed on 10MG up until three weeks ago when I made the decision to start the withdrawal process. The medication had begun to have the reverse effect on me after a year and a half of taking it. I would wake up in a good mood and take the medicine and be in tears by the afternoon. I began reducing my medicine from 10MG to 7.5MG three weeks ago last Monday. I started having the withdrawal symptoms by the third day of reducing my medicine to 7.5. I was very shaky, anxious,had a headache, and the insomnia started. This week (my third) has been mostly just the dull headache and insomnia. I wish that withdrawing from this medication wasn't so hard. I would love to just stop taking it and be done with it but I have done a lot of research on this and realize the people that seem to have the greatest success rates withdraw slowly. I will keep you posted on my progress as I continue on my withdrawal path. I also want to say thank you to all of you that have been sharing your information. I hope that I can do the same for some of you.


Barbiegirl