Posted by bleauberry on October 11, 2007, at 21:17:22
In reply to lexapro allergic reaction, posted by jeens on October 11, 2007, at 10:26:56
It does not sound like an allergic reaction to me. It sounds like too high of a dose. Some people are very sensitive to changing anything in their brain chemistry. Me for example, I had the same reactions as you to lexapro. I had to start with 1.25mg, which was a 5mg tab cut into quarters. I took just one quarter. Even that was a bit stimulating, but not bad. After about 2 weeks I had worked my way up to 5mg. Eventually got to 10mg. You have to give the brain time to adjust to the massive amounts of serotonin being subjected to the receptors that are not accustomed to it.
That being said, you are exquisitely sensitive to this drug. I could be wrong, but you might be to effexor as well. If it were me, I would not start at 37.5mg. I would dump the contents out of the capsule and take maybe 1/4th of them (they are beads). And feel it out from there. When people discontinue effexor they do the same thing, in reverse, by counting out how many beads they do.
It is my doctor's view that when someone is super sensitive to tiny doses of drugs, they are usually have too much of a heavy metal in them. Usually either lead or mercury. Drug sensitivity is a powerful clue to toxicity.
Do you have amalgam fillings? Have you ever had any?
Small amounts of lead or mercury can be devastating in terms of psychiatry for some people, while others can handle large quantities of metals with no symptoms at all. It is genetic and has to do with how well your body excretes normal everyday exposure to our toxic world. Some people excrete well, others do not. With them, the metals accumulate over the years, primarily in the brain, nervous system, and glands, causing hundreds of different so-called diseases, or symptoms that look like diseases, mostly psychiatric or neuromuscular or digestive or allergic, that aren't really diseases at all. Just metals wreaking havoc on the body's mechanisms.
Depending on the lab, you can get a hair sample test for $70 to $120. It will show the amount of essential metals and common heavy metals you have. You can order them yourself on the net.
Don't bother asking your doctor about this. They are not educated whatsoever on toxicity. They just brush your reaction off as an allergic reaction or the wrong drug choice. Kind of naive to say that when they really have no clue or effort to back that up with facts, especially when you can actually identify an allergic reaction with various lab tests. Specific antibodies in your blood will be elevated. Amazing they say you are allergic and yet don't verify medically for you.
Metals cause the very symptoms you are trying to treat.
The common assumption (not fact) is that depression and anxiety are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. Usually serotonin. But we never ask, and doctors don't, WHY the chemical imbalance happened. It wasn't always imbalanced. What happened to unbalance it?
In any case, just stuff to ponder.
When in doubt, go slow and low. You can open a capsule of effexor and make your own custom sized dose. You could retry lexapro in microdoses also. But again, super-sensitivy is a powerful clue to something else going on.
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