Posted by orbital on August 8, 2010, at 22:31:28
In reply to Re: Off Lexapro? - apathy syndrome //Help!, posted by Phillipa on August 8, 2010, at 21:22:00
Hey Phillipa :)
Similar experience here, about 10 years ago my GP prescribed 20mg Prozac. A week later I was in the ER with uncontrollable panic. After that experience, it took me years to work up the nerve to try another med (Paxil).
Anyway, thanks for your advice, I think I'll do just that, stop everything for a while, then reassess, based on how I'm feeling. Thank you!
> Hi Orbital just popped on here. Humm was also trying lexapro. Seems lower dose works better and also combining with low dose luvox 50mg. Been on it so many years. I do remember when prozac came out there was only 20mg available and although was working and felt very good on .25 of xanax first day on 20 of prozac lots of energy, day 2 anxiety, day three sheer panic and got rid of the prozac. Took three days for the anxiety to subside. At the time my pdoc was a good one and very amazed at my response to prozac and literally begged me to take it every three days and I refused. Reason I wrote all this is that I feel that if prozac truly helps discontinue other SSRI's then go for a very low dose and see what happens. And klonopin did depress me. And please let me know how it goes. Love Phillipa Waving!!!!!!
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