Help :( I need some comfort!! Please Chime IN!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:01 pm

sorry laptop buttons are sensitve. but im doing good my dr. said she will keep me on the lexapro for 6 months to a year and i just the ativan when i need it, i take 10mg of lexapro and and .5mg of the ativan. i can actually sit and watch a movie without freakin out and i can just lay down and go to sleep. so i think if u need the meds. for the everyday uneasiness def. talk to ur dr. bout that. i know u will get past God put u here for a reason and it wasn't the be scared, he loves u so very much. just keep praying it above all else is the best med.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:53 am

I`ve been on lexapro for about 10 yrs.
It works well for me

You need to remember that if your not taking it like your supposed to its not going to work.
It usually takes a couple weeks to really start working.The unreal feelings your having is anxiety not the lexapro. Keep taking it as prescribed and use the other(xanax) as needed and you will feel better soon!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:17 am

Hey everyone,

Sorry I havent been around to respond. Its been realllllllllly rough lately. I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago and when I went I told him everything was good because at the time, i seemed to be feeling better. The lexapro seemed to be working. Now I feel like i totally relapsed. I dont know what to do. All i want to do is sleep and my mind races all night, i fear i will never get better and thoughts of suicide sometimes enter my brain and it scares me! Its like thoughts of if this is how ur life is going to be, why even live! I dont want that!!!!!!! Someone please tell me they have been through this. I also keep having Unreal feelings and depersonalization at random times and sometimes all day. Its horrifying!!! Any insight???? I also am so scared of withdrawal symptoms, and afraid I'm gunna be stuck on Lexapro. I read way to much side effect info

-BRET

Your responses mean a lot to me!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:25 am

Brett, I have just started the program (as a last resort). I know the feelings you are talking about. It is scary and horrible. But you are not alone, not at all. I can say I feel better after being on the second week of this program, it's because I can calm myself down a little and each day I know I will get better at it. Since July of 08 I was in the hospital 4 times and have been on so many meds. at one time I was on 7 at once. Talk about scarey. Now I am down to three, I really feel like the program has helped me the most. I had to go on an MAOI and had to go off my OCD meds and all my sympotms came back. So the program is helping me work through it. People always say it will get better and I would think right, when. But I can actually say I think I am learning to control things. I feel like my doctor gave up on me so then I ordered the program and I know I am the only one who can change this. Meds help, but they don't solve the problem. We will all get through this, we will.