Posted by blueberry on April 29, 2006, at 10:31:43 [reposted on May 1, 2006, at 18:10:34 | original URL]
In reply to lexapro withdrawl....help, posted by mardot on April 28, 2006, at 12:25:32
The taper schedule we are given by doctors I think is usually too aggressive and too fast.
Three options:
Tough it out. It could be a total of 2 to 6 weeks before withdrawals are over.
Restart it to the smallest dose that helps, and then reduce the dose by 1mg or 2mg every 4 days or so. Use a razor blade to cut the pills as close as you can. When you are ready to stop, you might be taking just crumbs by that time. In the following days after you do stop, take more crumbs as needed. Eventually you will notice you can go 2 days without any, take some crumbs, go 3 days without any, take some crumbs, and so on until one day you will realize things are manageable and not too uncomfortable and then you can just wait it out a lot easier.
Try 5htp. When I withdrew from lexapro, I started 5htp. The dizziness fogginess tiredness stuff didn't go away completely but the 5htp did take the edge off quite a bit. I started with one 50mg a day to test, ended up on 50mg 3 times a day, and then slowly tapered off that which was a lot easier than tapering off lexapro.
Eventually though, I don't think there is any way to avoid withdrawals completely.
poster:blueberry
thread:638913
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/wdrawl/20060412/msgs/638918.html