Lexapro - insomnia, anxiety
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Lexapro - insomnia, anxiety
| Thu, 10-28-2004 - 6:36am |
This post is with regards to medicine for depression. Lexapro seems to help, but it also keeps me up at night, and I had a panic attack today. I haven't had a panic attack in months. This is just starting since I've begun taking Lexapro. Has anyone else had this experience?

you bet!
my pdoc had me try Lexapro instead of Celexa because it supposedly had less side effects - not so!
i am really sensitive to all the SSRIs - they all give me anxiety and sometimes panic attacks (Zoloft did that!)
So we changed to Celexa and I tolerated it much better than the Lexapro!
peace and love,
just_a_big_kid
Hi
Lexapro helped me with anxiety and didn't seem to cause it.
Christine
CL
some have to go back to celexa.
taking it in the morning is the best time, but, again, at a teeny dose, at first.
all ssri's should be started at a teeeeny dose and worked up.
even zoloft, a standard, can make patients jittery, but lexapro has made many patients jittery, includiing me.
i'm not on anything now.
but, at one time, i was put on lexapro, after being on celexa.
2 yrs. ago, when it first came out.
kitties
I hope this helps