Posted by SLS on February 28, 2013, at 11:37:13
In reply to Re: SLS...Question, posted by Baseball85 on February 28, 2013, at 11:09:34
> Thanks, Bryn. I have been on 10mg since October. I was taking 5mg in the morning and 5mg at night. It was working pretty well for about 5 weeks. Then about 5 weeks ago he had me start taking 10mg in morning and then a week after that had me take 15mg in the morning. I had the normal anxiety increase after about a week for about 5 days and then it subsided. At weeks of 15 I started feeling sooooo tired and jittery and irritable. Was this still start up side effects most likely?
I think it is possible that it is your illness breaking through as might be incompletely treated. The symptoms might even be exaggerated forms of your original symptoms. You could be caught in between response and relapse. It is a confusing and uncomfortable place to be. I have seen this happen with myself several times. I still think it will be worth going to 20 mg/day if 10 mg/day proves ineffective. However, I would not continue at that dosage if increased anxiety, agitation, and irritability were to continue for more than a week. Some people go to 40 mg/day, so you are not really pushing the dosage too much.
Antidepressants are not ideal treatments, but sometimes they are the best available tools that medical science gives us to work with at this juncture.
If this is your first episode of anxiety, I would consider discontinuing Lexapro after a year or so. You may no longer need it by then.
These illnesses really suck.
Good luck with Lexapro. If it doesn't work out for you, you can bet that people here will shower you with ideas as to what alternative treatments are available so that you can discuss them with your doctor.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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