Posted by Interject79 on December 5, 2003, at 14:06:21
In reply to Re: Back On Lexapro, posted by Annette2 on December 5, 2003, at 1:47:09
It is odd if you'd taken it only a few days. Sometimes it happens if you've taken any antidepressant for a while, then switched and quit shortly after starting the second one. But it's still a very real possibility.
More classic symptoms are dizziness, brain shocks, nausea, crying, anger, headache, and mood swings. It's worse with drugs which clear out of your body relatively fast, like paxil, celexa and lexapro, and even zoloft. Effexor is also notorious for it. If you find that very soon after taking the SSRI again, your symptoms quickly subside, it could be a withdrawal.
There are a number of treatments, but prevention seems to be the best. In my opinion though avoiding withdrawal is not a good reason by itself to keep taking a drug. But it's also not advisable to start trying to come off an SSRI if you're involved in something very stressful (e.g., big project, exams, weddings, funerals...)
Hope this helps some, at least for info on withdrawal. There's a lot of decent stuff on the Net about it too.
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