OtherGround Forum >> OG BROS - QUITTING LEXAPRO. HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE

jdindiana - Good luck bro! Did it give you really bad sexual side effects the whole time? I started Lexapro but got off after a month bc I couldn't bust a nut.

We support you bro.

Good luck man.  It may be a hard and at times miserable road, but keep the goal at the end in sight and grind it out.

You are a faggot btw.

Good luck!

The doctors piss me off messing with people's lives by writing scripts for this crap when they don't need it.

He should have made you try diet and exercise first.

Get your butt to the gym and eat right..it will help immensely!

waxwing slain - I've been on a low dose for almost 9 years. Started taking it for anxiety early in my career due to extreme work stress. Rather than get my shit straight through diet and exercise I took a shortcut and it worked. In the meantime I've completely revamped my health and its time to get off this poison.

Unfortunately the withdrawal from Lexapro is apparently really fucking awful. I talked to my doc (he was pretty useless) and did quite a bit of research on my own about the best way to minimize the withdrawal symptoms.

Here's the plan;

Cut to 5mg (from 10) for 7 days.
Then cut to 2.5 for 7 days.
Then take 2.5 every other day for 7 days.
Cold turkey.

I'm posting here to receive both positive and negative reinforcement. I will update occasionally with symptoms and how it's going. Feel free to call me a faggot etc. it will all keep me from growing a (second) vagina and giving in to staying on it.

Thanks in advance for calling me a faggot.

Chalupa - The prozac thing didn't work at all for me, so it might or might not, but it could be worth a try. Since it has such a longer half-life, as Gulliver's Travels mentioned, the withdrawal isn't as severe for some people.

But no matter what, take your time. No reason to rush it at all.

Plus you should also consider timing your drops around a weekend, like on Fridays, so at least on Saturday and Sunday you can do whatever you have to do to cope with the symptoms and minimize any interference you might have at work.

I did this myself a few years ago after an 18-month cycle. PM me if you need help/advice.

good luck, i did it with cymbalta.. broke my neck and was on it for 5 years... one thing is i told myself that i have a few really rough weeks and then it would get better

The worst time, was when i stopped it all, I was very irritable, low, getting angry  a lot, but id feel like that and tell myself it was coming off the meds and it would pass

I made sure I had startchy foods, like potatoes low carbs mean lower mood, my background is as a psychologist so I think that helped a little as well knowing what to expect, anyway so starchy foods for serotonin production.. a couple of weeks in I started taking L-trypophan before bed, and a little 5- htp, and it seemd to help, although im not sure if it was palcebo (5 htp has some research studies to say it helps with depression), I stopped the 5 htp then, and then a couple of weeks later the trypophan. I tried to schedule some exercise daily, and some days that was just doing two laps walking round the mall. Foods liek dates and bananas are emant to be good too.

As I said it was very hard for about 6 weeks, and then I adapted and im fine now, but expect it to be rough and tell yourself it will pass. If it doesnt pass keep interacting with your doc and see what they say.

" Feel free to call me a faggot etc.Thanks in advance for calling me a faggot."

OP is some creepy submissive, don't play into his sick fantasies.

orcus -

" Feel free to call me a faggot etc.Thanks in advance for calling me a faggot."

OP is some creepy submissive, don't play into his sick fantasies.