Hi, I'm worried that the lexapro I'm taking for over a year is affecting my concentration. I feel very hyper all the time, which is not like me, I'm usually placid and easy going. I feel like i have ADD and ADHD. I also have almost verbal diarrhoea, and blurt things out that I wouldn't normally say. I'm also very restless and i wander off in my mind, i can't keep my concentration. It's starting to affect my studies, it makes my teachers lose their temper with me because I'm so all over the place. I was depressed and melancholic before going on this medication but i feel like a person who is high on something. I even had college students comment jokingly that they thought i was"smoking something"which worried me because i could not tell them that i was on antidepressants.
If anyone has had similar side effects to lexapro please help me out and respond.
Lexapro side effects, making me hyper?
Question posted by Goshie on 3 March 2014
Last updated on 1 May 2023 by WildcatVet
4 Answers
Have you brought this to the attention of your doctor? Side effects shouldn't last more than about three weeks, if that.
Sometimes antidepressants can potentially cause mania/hypomania in some users.
"Adult and pediatric patients receiving antidepressants for MDD, as well as for psychiatric and nonpsychiatric indications, have reported symptoms including anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, akathisia, hypomania, and mania."
Wildcat
I fee the same exact way
I suspect you are experiencing a manic state possibly from medication or you are cycling between depression and mania because you have bipolar disorder. Nothing to be alarmed about you just need to talk to your doctor about how you are feeling and behaving so that proper adjustments to your medication regimen can be made.
Thanking you.
Goshie
Hello Goshie,
Lexapro can cause some people to feel a little hyper; however, what you explained seems to be a little much. You need to talk with your doctor and find out what she/he says as s/he may want to change your medication or decrease your dose.
Best to you,
pamee
Thank you for your help.
Goshie
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