Experiences please
I have been taking Lex for 4 months. I am sooo tired all the time. I
have been thinking about stopping but was told on another group I
can’t “just stop”. I tried cutting down to a half dose and that ruined
me. I was taking at night but the next day after I get the kids off to
school I find I can go back to bed and sleep til they get home. I
started taking it because of anxiety and panic attacks. Before i
started taking it I couldn’t sleep at all. I brought it up with the
burse at my psychiatrists office and she said she had never heard of
lexapro making people tired. I jus want a happy medium, I want to be
able to sleep, but I also want to be awake occasionally.. 
Thanks,
Les
May 23rd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I am just happy that Lex curbed by OCD tendencies and my anxiety. I know my
energy level is low and so is my sex drive, but at this point, I am just
happy to be mellow…in the springtime I plan to go back to the gym and get some
cardio to get my energy level up. But now in the winter, feeling this
mellow is awesome!
Liz
In a message dated 12/15/2006 4:41:41 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bluesman615@… writes:
Lex can make you tired and apathetic. My anxiety and OCD level is way down,
but so is my ambition, energy and sex drive.
John Taulbee <_musicman360_musicman360mus_
(mailto:musicman360_2000@…)
I have to agree in some ways. Lexapro really helped
me with my anxiety and paranoia but the apathy that it
creates I feel lazy alot. I still feel like I am
being watched but I no longer give a crap. So I am
still paranoid but I just don’t care anymore.
“Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit”
(Bidden or not, God is present)
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Thanks for the responses. Has anyone just used xanax and had good
Oh and I
Leslie
results? I would like to get out of bed occasionally..
would like to add that the paranoia responce had me laughing…
I have. I take it for anxiety and agoraphobia. It has helped me a lot. Ive been
on it for 4 years, and have been on a milligram and a half for 3 years, not
addicted. i do want to try Lexapro, and plan on it very soon when I feel I am
ready. Guess I have a phobia of meds. I take Alprazolam, the generic of Xanax.
Terry
May 24th, 2007 at 7:26 am
I’ve been taking Xanax for seven years now, and it’s been great for me. I also
take a milligram and a half a day. I’ve had no side effects from it,either. Just
recently, tho, the panic attacks have returned, even with the Xanax. My doctor
wants me to take Lexapro, but I’m afraid to.
You sound like me Kathy. What are you taking the Xanax for? I decided come
spring I will start the Lexapro, I seem to be more relaxed that time of year. I
DESPISE winter. I REALLY want to try Lexapro, and my doc said I could start with
as low a dose as I want. He gave me Lexapro 2 years ago but it expired in Oct.
and I threw them out. Does anyone in the group take Lexapro for agoraphobia?
Terry
May 24th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
liz,could u share what your life was like before u started the lex, and how its
changed?
[lizzstergiou@…] wrote:
I am just happy that Lex curbed by OCD tendencies and my anxiety. I know my
energy level is low and so is my sex drive, but at this point, I am just
happy to be mellow…in the springtime I plan to go back to the gym and get some
cardio to get my energy level up. But now in the winter, feeling this
mellow is awesome!
Liz
In a message dated 12/15/2006 4:41:41 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bluesman615@… writes:
Lex can make you tired and apathetic. My anxiety and OCD level is way down,
but so is my ambition, energy and sex drive.
John Taulbee <_musicman360_musicman360mus_
(mailto:musicman360_2000@…)
I have to agree in some ways. Lexapro really helped
me with my anxiety and paranoia but the apathy that it
creates I feel lazy alot. I still feel like I am
being watched but I no longer give a crap. So I am
still paranoid but I just don’t care anymore.
“Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit”
(Bidden or not, God is present)
May 24th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Before Lex, I was in a constant state of anxiety, rapid heartbeat, etc. I
was compulsive in when I did things, they had to be done in a certain way,
almost ritualistic. I was also depressed, crying all the time, thinking about
the future and how I was going to end up being an disabled old lady with no
one to care for me. You see, I would think of horrible bad thoughts, about
worse case scenarios and I couldn’t stop. That is the obsessive part of my old
behavior…with Lex (and 900 mg Litium) I am doing soooooo well that today I
cried tears of happiness that I wasn’t feeling like hell. I also had
insomnia from hell and my psych prescribed 25 mg of Restoril and 1 mg of
klonopin to
sleep. And guess, what? After 6 months of insomnia, I can sleep now.
Granted, along with the meds, I had to do work on myself, a lot of soul
searching
and dealing with things I had been avoided.
Liz
In a message dated 12/16/2006 2:51:44 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
luann713@… writes:
liz,could u share what your life was like before u started the lex, and how
its changed?
[_lizzstergiou@lizzste_ (mailto:lizzstergiou@…) ] wrote:
I am just happy that Lex curbed by OCD tendencies and my anxiety. I know my
energy level is low and so is my sex drive, but at this point, I am just
happy to be mellow…in the springtime I plan to go back to the gym and get
some
cardio to get my energy level up. But now in the winter, feeling this
mellow is awesome!
Liz
“Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit”
(Bidden or not, God is present)
May 25th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Any initial side effects Liz? Terry
May 25th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
thanks for responding. i wanted to know in case anyone is like me and how meds
changed or improved their life. im so happy to hear that u r doing so much
better gives me hope. thanks again.
[lizzstergiou@…] wrote:
Before Lex, I was in a constant state of anxiety, rapid heartbeat, etc. I
was compulsive in when I did things, they had to be done in a certain way,
almost ritualistic. I was also depressed, crying all the time, thinking about
the future and how I was going to end up being an disabled old lady with no
one to care for me. You see, I would think of horrible bad thoughts, about
worse case scenarios and I couldn’t stop. That is the obsessive part of my old
behavior…with Lex (and 900 mg Litium) I am doing soooooo well that today I
cried tears of happiness that I wasn’t feeling like hell. I also had
insomnia from hell and my psych prescribed 25 mg of Restoril and 1 mg of
klonopin to
sleep. And guess, what? After 6 months of insomnia, I can sleep now.
Granted, along with the meds, I had to do work on myself, a lot of soul
searching
and dealing with things I had been avoided.
Liz
In a message dated 12/16/2006 2:51:44 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
luann713@… writes:
liz,could u share what your life was like before u started the lex, and how
its changed?
[_lizzstergiou@lizzste_ (mailto:lizzstergiou@…) ] wrote:
I am just happy that Lex curbed by OCD tendencies and my anxiety. I know my
energy level is low and so is my sex drive, but at this point, I am just
happy to be mellow…in the springtime I plan to go back to the gym and get
some
cardio to get my energy level up. But now in the winter, feeling this
mellow is awesome!
Liz
“Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit”
(Bidden or not, God is present)
May 25th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
In a message dated 12/16/2006 6:48:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
terry120953@… writes:
Any initial side effects Liz? Terry
Terry,
No,no side effects at all, thank God.
Liz
“Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit”
(Bidden or not, God is present)