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Posted by Restore on August 8, 2006, at 19:52:01
I am currently trying to wean myself off of Lexapro which I have been taking for 7 months. Started at 10mg, increased to 20mg but insomnia led me to Remeron. I have been reducing my Lexapro dosage since March but haven't decided whether to discontinue completely. Here are my questions and comments.
-In addition to Lexapro, I'm taking 45mg of Rem eron and Lotrel for blood pressure.
-I have successfully reduced the Lexapro dosage down to 5mg. Several times I tried to go off completely and experienced a variety of withdrawals including brain shivers and dizziness.
-5mg seems to successfully manage my anxiety and counteract some of the Remeron side affects (sedation)
-I recently reduced my Lexapro dosage to 2.5mg and have noticed "mild" withdrawl symptoms but more troublesome is my anxiety seems to have returned and my blood pressure has increased from 120/75 to 135/85.
-I'd like to get off the Lexapro because I feel its the right thing to do, but given the BP increase and anxiety maybe I need to stay at 5mg and plan on continuing it.
Thoughts? Am I too concerned about getting off Lexapro? I have no plans to modify my remeron dosage at this time
Posted by Impermanence on August 11, 2006, at 1:55:36
In reply to Lexapro Withdrawal, posted by Restore on August 8, 2006, at 19:52:01
I came off 15mgs of Lexapro in about three weeks, I also came off 30mgs of Mirtazapine (Remeron in America) cold turkey at another time. I can honestly say, the longer you play around with these drugs and believe they are either 1; doing something for you, or 2; hard to come off, the longer the pharmaceutical industry has its greedy claws in you. Yes they where both tough to come off for a very short peroid, Mirtazapine was far worse for me but Lexapro was much harder to get on never mind get off!!! All I can say is: 'take it on the chin my friend', get off them both, they will NOT help you, they will only numb you, you need to feel your emotion, not suppress it. No doubt your doctor is getting a nice commission for prescribing this poison as mine is. The fear of coming off this crap is a million times worse that actually doing it. Eat good food, get decent sleep, exercise, stay off the booze and drugs, you'll be o.k. dude. Don't let the bastards own your soul.
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