LEXAPRO VS CELEXA–NEED HELP
I have not been able to tolerate the liquid form of Lexapro even at
1mg per day or 2.5 mg every 3 days since late December of 2003. The
sides are horrific. I am aat a loss here, I just want to feel
better.
My psychiatrist is thinking about changing to oral Celexa to see if
I might be able to tolerate it better.
Has anyone taken Celexa, if so how was it–and side effects
any advice will help.
Many thanks
Kelly
February 22nd, 2005 at 3:15 pm
kelly, what side effects are you having???
*Brynn*
February 23rd, 2005 at 2:03 pm
thanks for sharing kelly… hrm.. well, i tend to have the same issues
keep in touch even if you do find all
*Brynn*
getting on SSRIs in general (majorrrrrr anxiety) .. i’ve tried celexa before and
it
seemed to be worse than lexapro.. and seeing as it is a sister to lexapro, i
dont think it would make a huge difference regarding your reaction to it…
lexapro is just an isomer of celexa… as far as zoloft and prozac go, is there
a
reason that you dont try those again, instead??? I wonder if i have that
weird mutant SS thing cause i have been off alot of drugs due to side effects
and
what not.. and back in the day i used to be able to tolerate drugs (SSRIs)
alot better than i do now. Now whenever i start an SSRI i feel like i am going
crazy and have really hard core panic to the point where i can’t move, etc…
but as i was explaining to holly, my doctor put me on zyprexa which really
really helps with anxiety, like riiiiiight away!.. and then when i was put on
lexapro
i didn’t have panic attacks or anything.. quite amazing.. as i had been
struggling with those SSRIs for quite some time now. hope this helps! oh yeah,
and
if you want more info on lexapro/celexa or any other drugs i highly recommend
you check out depressionforums.com and remedyfind.com … but i am not
suggesting you leave us behind hehehh
the
info you need there.
In a message dated 02/13/2004 10:51:11 PM Pacific Standard Time,
cjung61fau@… writes:
February 27th, 2005 at 9:14 am
the news regarding the genes.. really is amazing… I think that might be an
thanks for all of that chromosome info.. and good luck with the
i hope it all works out for you. 
issue with me.. i’ve not been a great metabolizer of the ssris… like even if
they do seem to help in some ways.. they get me down in others… as in.. i
can hardly walk straight cause i feel so drugged…. and headachy.. like a
fishbowl on my head.. i dunno.. and the weird anxiety they cause.. but at the
same time they make me tired and lazy .. it’s odd.. argh… i should stop
complaining.. haha but yeah i can totally relate to your wanting to get on with
school.. my brain has interrupted my schooling and life much too much for my
liking and it gets quite disheartening after a certain amount of time.. i wonder
when life will get back to normal.. but then i have to sit and think.. when was
life normal?? oh, it never was! yikes!!! hehe oh well… it can only get
better, right?
and like you going into neurosciences.. i want to turn this thing around and
use my experience for the good… help others in my shoes. i used to want to
be a pharmacist… now i want to be a psychiatric nurse.. i would become a
psychiatrist but i couldn’t handle the stress of that much schooling.. i think
i’d
be digging a grave to an early death by trying to go through med school….
dumb anxiety!!!
*Brynn*
ssri…
March 2nd, 2005 at 11:00 am
Kelly - your advice and encouragement about school and research is
wonderful. I want to add a little bit of wisdom which I posess from
my experience of doing research based on personal interest while
compensating for psychiatric problems. In my case the excitement was
in exploring ideas, thinking about things with collegues, and finding
susscinct ways to express complicated ideas and results. The sicker I
got during a depressive cycle the worse my thinking was and my
interactions with other researchers suffered. Even though they knew
about my disorder and rationally understood, it was difficult for
them to endure without some form of resentment or disapointment. I
began to think of the management of my illness in a professional
situation as Disappointment Management.
Disappointment Management was basically anticipating how my
predictable depressive cycling would affect those that depended on me
to be symptom-free but at the same time knew about my
illness/condition/disability. Thinking in this way didn’t really give
me any power over the depression but it did give me a certain
distance from the pain of disappointing others and myself. Yes, I had
to manage my own disappointment, too. Somehow this realization makes
it less dramatic and I get less anxiety over the downs. The only bad
thing that I can think of is that I also have used the fear of
eternal incapicitation and psychological death to motivate a
temporary remission.
So what I am trying to say is that whatever plan you have to
compensate professionally for a psychiatric disorder should have lots
of padding and slack. Don’t try to pretend that getting well is part
of the professional goal because you can’t really control that
outcome - you can only make it less likely to occur and sometimes
that just isn’t enough. Don’t try to make success or failure an
indicator of your value or your wellness. There is very little
correlation. Hope my ideas are helpful.
AM
or 2 courses at a time, that is what I did, until I decided to becoe
a full time student and get it over with. I found that college is a
lot of fun, especially if you feel well and I am 42 and doing it and
there are other gradduate students in my age bracket and older (I
graduated with a dual degree in psychology and biology and in my
graduating class a man was 72 years old! So it can be done!) I just
want to feel better to obtain my Ph.D and go into the field where I
can help others through applied research, mostly from the
misery/experience that I have gone through. Other researches that
are not affected my a neorubehavoiral disorder(OCD) have no clue–
just from what they have learned from bookls and conferences, they
are great at what they do, but imagine if they did suffer from what
we do, the quality and quanity of their research would be so
beneficial–less suffering–