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Re: I HATE THIS LEXAPRO!! I CAN'T FUNCTION!! » CJ Nightowl

Posted by leeran on April 21, 2003, at 0:48:55

In reply to I HATE THIS LEXAPRO!! I CAN'T FUNCTION!!, posted by CJ Nightowl on April 21, 2003, at 0:07:55

I don't know if this is advice (?) but I thought I would relay my Adderall dosage. I take 40 mg. of Adderall XR per day - 20 in the a.m. and 20 at 12:00 noon. To be perfectly honest, I don't think 10 mg of Adderall would even phase me.

RE: Lexapro

I took Lexapro for one week and couldn't stand feeling catatonic. I started cutting pills in halves, then quarters, to back myself out of it.
I STILL feel unmotivated - even on 40 mg. of Adderall per day (since being on the Lexapro).
Oh yeah, and I went off of Wellbutrin to take the Lexapro, so - just last week, at my husband's insistance, I refilled the Wellbutrin because at least I was human on the combination of Adderall and Wellbutrin.

Re: Adderall, my pdoc started me on a very large prescription of 10 mg. and told me to play around with it (in 10 mg. increments) 'til I felt a difference. Well, actually the first month I did 10 and 10. Then, he decided to push it to 20 - 20. He says 60 mg per day is the maximum (I would be a basketcase on that dosage).

I really felt best at 30 mg. per day . . . but he likes the idea of me taking 20 in the a.m. - then something at noon, and it would involve two separate prescriptions per month.

I hear you on the Lexapro. I know everyone says to give it several weeks but I couldn't endure the feeling of being able to move. It was like sitting with blinders on all day. Really odd.

Oh yeah, with the Lexapro I wasn't really sleepy but just catatonic.

I do think 10 mg of Adderall sounds pretty low. My 15 year old son is on 30 mg.

Last comment - I'm wondering if you should stop the Lexapro cold. If it's like other SSRI's it may require a phasing out period (I'm not at all sure about this but that's how I decided to "take myself off of it").

It sounds like the magic pill for some, but I definitely felt like I was going further down the rabbit hole every day that I took it (and I was afraid of how long it would take to come back up). It's been two weeks since I've taken it and I still don't feel quite "right."


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