Posted by gr00vy on March 5, 2004, at 1:03:06
In reply to Re: Question: Lexapro 5 and 10 » BobYuma, posted by Esmarelda on January 16, 2004, at 10:09:31
so i went to a doctor for a regular check-up the other day.
"you seem anxious," he says. this is the second time in a week and a half someone has said as much.
i am a new yorker, and a freelancer. that should be enough to make anyone anxious right there. i also have a bad living situation - a roommate who keeps inviting people to live in our apartment (and so i've given notice and i'm moving out, and i don't yet know where but i have about 28 days to find out, and come up with the money to do so).
anxious? duh.
there was another point in my life where i was this stressed out, and i happened to get a regular check up then, too - and the doctor pushed a head pill on me (prozac). a more manic person didn't exist in new york during the month i took that garbage.
i tell this to my new doctor.
"you're probably bipolar," he says - that's what happens to bipolar people who take prozac."
but now he wants me to take this?
unlike my younger, stupider years, i now refuse to put anything in my mouth that hasn't been properly researched. call me vain but the side effects seem worse than the benefits with Lexapro (call me vain but weight gain is the last thing i need to make me feel happier).
thanks for the samples, doc. they were awfully fun to flush.
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