I don’t know if it’s medication induced but I’ve been having chest pains, weakness, dizziness, and pressure in my head ever since two tuesdays ago when I started taking my first dose (2.5mg of Lexapro). I thought I was having a heart attack but I had EKG and also have been to the doctor twice and they have found nothing wrong.
The Lexapro made me manic just after a week and half of being on it, (I got up to 5mg and the last day I took it was last Wednesday). Anyways I’ve been super dizzy and off balance, and experiencing all these physical symptoms, along with the bipolar symptoms, with my already severe OCD. I’ve been having extreme stress and anxiety, panic attacks, feeling faint, this horrible tightness in my head and tip of throat too.
I told my psych about the chest pains and mania and he said to discontinue the Lexapro immediately but I’m still having these symptoms after a few days of the last dose and my bipolar symptoms keep worsening too, I just feel all around terrible and can barely get up off my couch.
I feel incredibly off balance and depersonalized, my memory and cognition is terrible right now.
I keep suspecting that my last medication I was on caused this too, I was on geodon and it gave me seizures and similar feelings to this minus the pains and weird stuff going on physically.
I’ve been taking.05 mg of klonopin when I really need it but it seems like I can’t function without it, I took it two days in a row and yesterday and today I’ve felt like pure crap… Literally horrible.
Can someone please help me out and weigh in what they think might be going on with me? I haven’t felt normal since the geodon and it was because I drank on it the second night I was on it and stayed up 24/7 since then been having weird mental issues and feeling terrible as time goes on.
I feel so terrible and it seems to get worse everyday. Could the withdrawals really be happening that badly? I took the last dose almost a week ago now.
I googled lexapro withdrawals. Apparently withdrawal symptoms can increase after 90 days and stay with a person for over a year afterward. It also said “ the immediate withdrawal period from escitalopram can contain a combination of both new symptoms and the intensification of symptoms that a person noticed prior to taking the drug. Some of the symptoms that are most commonly noticed during this period include:
Agitation
Headaches
Insomnia
Irritability
Nausea
“Zaps” or the sensation of electrical jolts that course through a person’s body
The second phase of escitalopram withdrawal occurs weeks after using the drug. Unfortunately, many conditions that are noticed during this time fail to disappear on their own. Symptoms that arise during this time can be so difficult that many people feel the temptation to stay on the medication for the rest of their life rather than continue the withdrawal period. Some of the symptoms that arise during the second phase include:
What should I do then? Should I tell my doctor that I need to go back on it? I’m worried because I have suicidal and homicidal thoughts on them but now I’m stuck with them days after last taking it.
I’m not sure. I think u should see your doctor seen as you r suicidal it’s not safe to go this alone. If u do choose to stay of it by your doctors recommendations, Kelly brogan has good advice for how to naturally withdraw from antidepressants