Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 203103

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LEXAPRO,users feedabck please

Posted by male34 on February 23, 2003, at 15:40:17

if youve been on LEXAPRO for more than 4 weeks now please reply your results ,for anxiety,
my point _ i want to know will it work for anxiety agoraphobic,panic that kind of stuff, thanks for any comments you can give me,thankp.s. any wieght gain like paxil does ?

 

Re: LEXAPRO,users feedabck please » male34

Posted by Rainee on February 23, 2003, at 19:35:47

In reply to LEXAPRO,users feedabck please, posted by male34 on February 23, 2003, at 15:40:17

Hi,
I have been on Lexapro for aprox. 2 months now.
It has been a very good med in my opinion.
My worst problem has been anxiety and panic and I feel much better. It takes some time and I've seen the most improvement at 20mgs a day compared to the 10mgs I was intially on.
No weight gain actually I lost weight.
So time will tell.

 

Re: LEXAPRO,users feedabck please

Posted by Stellaz on February 23, 2003, at 19:52:25

In reply to LEXAPRO,users feedabck please, posted by male34 on February 23, 2003, at 15:40:17

Hi, I've been on lex for about 10 weeks. I have noticed a reduction in GAD symptoms, in addition to the anti depressive effect. I take 10 mg/day. I've had sexual side affects, and gained about 8 lbs, but I don't know whether that was just christmas cookies!

Stellaz

 

Re: LEXAPRO,users feedabck please

Posted by TerryW on February 24, 2003, at 14:28:26

In reply to LEXAPRO,users feedabck please, posted by male34 on February 23, 2003, at 15:40:17

I have been on Lexapro for 3 months now. The medication has worked very well on my depression but for the social anxiety I do not feel that it has done as great a job as Paxil did. I have Ativan for an as-needed basis for anxiety, but I have also found that I need the Ativan in order to get a good night of sleep. Luckily, no weight gain, however, I do exercise 3-4 weeks.

Watch out for sexual saide effects - no loss of arousal but extreme labor needed for climax.

 

Re: LEXAPRO,users feedabck please

Posted by male34 on February 24, 2003, at 17:36:53

In reply to Re: LEXAPRO,users feedabck please, posted by TerryW on February 24, 2003, at 14:28:26

> I have been on Lexapro for 3 months now. The medication has worked very well on my depression but for the social anxiety I do not feel that it has done as great a job as Paxil did. I have Ativan for an as-needed basis for anxiety, but I have also found that I need the Ativan in order to get a good night of sleep. Luckily, no weight gain, however, I do exercise 3-4 weeks.
>
> Watch out for sexual saide effects - no loss of arousal but extreme labor needed for climax.
ativan whats that for what does it do etc>>im anxiety agoraphobic,bit social to iw ould say?whats ativan?

 

Re: LEXAPRO,users feedabck please » male34

Posted by ayuda on February 28, 2003, at 22:47:07

In reply to Re: LEXAPRO,users feedabck please, posted by male34 on February 24, 2003, at 17:36:53

> > I have been on Lexapro for 3 months now. The medication has worked very well on my depression but for the social anxiety I do not feel that it has done as great a job as Paxil did. I have Ativan for an as-needed basis for anxiety, but I have also found that I need the Ativan in order to get a good night of sleep. Luckily, no weight gain, however, I do exercise 3-4 weeks.
> >
> > Watch out for sexual saide effects - no loss of arousal but extreme labor needed for climax.
> ativan whats that for what does it do etc>>im anxiety agoraphobic,bit social to iw ould say?whats ativan?
>

Ativan is a benzodiazapine that is used, among other things, for anxiety (I take it for help sleeping and for panic attacks when I fly). In other words, it is a tranquilizer.

In my experience with Lexapro, it doesn't do as good a job on anxiety as Effexor did, but I have not had any panic attacks while taking it. However, I have had that feeling that a panic attack is going to come on, though I wait for it and it doesn't come. But I'm always afraid that there will be some break-through panic attack at some point, and then I don't know what I'll do, because the Lexapro works so well on my depression and has given me so few problems.


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