After the birth of my second daughter 7 months ago I reluctantly began taking Lexapro for PND. I have now been taking 20mgs for 6 months and wish to get off of it. I find I am unable to fully enjoy my children and miss feeling a whole range of emotions. I also lack any sex drive and have gained weight on top of post pregnancy weight :( After seeing my GP today I was told to just cut down to 10 mgs for the next two weeks and then come back in to see her and see if I am coping or if I will need to maintain at 20mgs for a while longer?? From what Ihave read on the net about AD withdrawls I will likely be a mess after going down 10 mgs that quickly but my GP did not want to hear this. I have two very young children and am VERY scared of the withdrawl symptoms... Please help I feel very alone:(
Sharon
Is it ok to go from 20mg-10mg of Lexapro in one tapper?
Question posted by Mummyto2 on 10 Sep 2010
Last updated on 11 September 2010 by polly545
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hi there. I totally understand how you feel. I was taking 20m of lexapro for about 5 months and found myself during that time to be lacking emotions and empathy and concern for people in my life such as family that i once had. i kinda felt like i was just excesting insted of living. Anyway i went down to 10m on my own without talking to my doc first and it was pretty rough, which would have happened anyway whether i talked to the doc or not, but over about a month ago i weaned myself off the lexapro completly which also was pretty rough but i got through it, just by thinking real positive and being active. So since then i have felt 10 times better then i ever did taking any kind of AD meds. I feel like i have a part of my life back, i can talk and be helpful to my family, and have alot more energy too. Plus i feel emotions again which is a natural thing whether or not there good or bad emotions i just deal with them now, insted of not feeling anything like when i was on ADs. It takes about 2 to 3 weeks after taking the meds when i started to feel normal again but it was so worth it. Im not saying you should stop taking the meds cause some people really need them but in my opinion depression is very much over diagnosed by doctors and the meds they give us just make things worse over time cause we never feel emotions and that makes us more depressed. Anyway i hope i kinda helped but remember coming off that med is hard but youll get through it. Take care
there's no harm in getting a second opinion...
Especially if you're seeing you general doctor, getting advise from an actual psychologist would be much more helpful in this sort of situation.
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