Hi erlybo

i have been taken lexapro 10 mg for 3 months now and I am doing great on it. Before I started taken it I was depressed very bad to the point that I wanted to kill myself and after my doctor put me on this drug it took about 3 weeks to work and every since I have not been depressed at all.
As far as side effects the only one I have from it is loss of appetite and that is it but I make myself eat and that is not a problem. I take 0.5 mg xanax 3 times a day to help with my anxiety and from what I can tell the lexapro does not seem to help with my anxiety but the xanax does.
Everybody is different with drugs and you never know what will work for you until you give it a good chance to work. Good luck to you and hope you do well on the lexapro
what mg are you going to take like I said the lexapro has done great for my depression oh yea I was depressed for over 4 years before we found the right drug for me that worked.

Good luck

my dr just prescribed me 10mg of lexapro for anxiety. The first 2 days I took it, I felt very relaxed, could almost say, I was just "chillin" then after the 3rd day. I felt nothing. I feel the same way I felt even before I began taking this medication. So, I dont know what's up with it, some people say it takes about 4 wks to go all the way in your system. What do you think??

I was on lexapro for about 6 months and did really great on it. It didn't start working until about 2 weeks...It takes time to build up in your system. I had no side effects with it, so it worked great for me. But different people respond to different things. I was on effexor but it didn't do much for me.

Stick with it, though. Give it a month or so before you decide that it isn't for you.

Good luck!

Dianna

Thanks for your advice. Let me ask you one more thing, what kind of changes should I expect to be diffrent? Like right now, I am just so frustrated that I dont feel any diffrent and was ready to give up on this. How diffrent did you feel on it?

Sanchez,

i have anxiety and ocd, so when I was talking it, I didn't really notice a change at first, but others around me did. I was much happier and carefree. I found the capabilities to stop obsessing over certain things (ie, having to clean house constantly, having to sleep with the tv on, having to check the lock on the door before going to bed). Also, I had some dizziness that cleared up. I'm thinking about going back on it because i'm having some trouble with the dizziness and my anxiety is starting to get out of control.

For me, it calmed me down and I was able to function without so much worry. I still had worries, but they were not as severe or I didn't think about them constantly.

Hope this helps! Lexapro did a great wonder for me; hope it works for you too. It takes at least 2 weeks for things to start changing, though, if it is going to work. Ask your doctor how long you should wait before you decide to try a different medication. I would think a month, but i'm not a doctor!

Dianna

I'm still going thru that stage. I am so picky and worriying about little things like that all the time. I get tired of it and try to sit still but I can't. My dr thinks I may also have adult add but we're still evaluating for that.

Sanchez,

i never even thought about add -- I may have it too, who knows?

How are you feeling today? How long have you been on the lexapro, by the way?

Dianna

Dianna,
my dr thinks I may have adult add only because I have 1 son who is on it and another who is being evaluated. Also, the symptoms I have are those of add. I have been on lexapro for 1wk and 4 days now. By the way, my name is diana too!!

Well, hello diana with one "n"!!

I hope the medicine will start to help you. Are you feeling any better today? I was on effexor for about a month, but I didn't feel like it helped me any, so they switched me to lexapro, which worked. There are so many different meds, though, and if lexapro isn't working, there is one that will!

My daughter exhibits add-like behaviors, but has not been officially tested. I hate the idea of her being on medicine. For the most part, she is fine, just at school is where she has problems.

Dianna (with 2 'n's!!)

Dianna,
i am feeling the same today. I really think that this lexapro is not the one for me. The first 2 days I felt diffrent and I thought wow! This is going to work for me. Then on the 3 or 4th day, I felt the same. May just be that I dont need lexapro but instead the medication for add. I'm going bk to my dr in 2 wks for further testing. At school is where my 7 yr old has problems too but, every dr we have seem has told me he is fine that it is juts the teacher who needs to give him more attention! I dont want him in medicine either. But for me, I think I am old enought to know what is best for me medication or not you know??