I was on Cipralex for about a year, starting with 10mg then finally working up to 40mg at its peak. I found that it helped in the beginning, but stopped working for me as time went on. Increasing the dosage helped for awhile, but at 40mg (20mg above the recommended dosage on the box) it was making me sleepy all of the time, and just really not working like it should have been, so I got off of it.

While I was on it, though, I had no side effects after the first couple of weeks, and it was great while it worked.