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Originally Posted by sewerrats
I take 10 mg of Lexapro which is the same has 20mg of celexa so 10mg celexa is only 5mg Lexapro that would do SFA for me. I would not complain to my DOCTOR about side effects after only 2 weeks that's not near enough time to settle in your body and 2 weeks you should have gone to 20 mg if that was your target dose set by your doc. 20 mg celexa is on label high dose but there are people on a lot higher dose than that. I myself came of celexa with a side effect (aggression) my wife informed me but I also had the useual sex side effects all meds give you plus a few more but I took them has normal for the med. I always give a med 10 weeks trail to be able to cross it off my list if nothing happens to my depression. I put up with anything it throw,s at me in the 10 weeks because I have had meds work on 9 weeks after giving me hell all the way till then. More people would be on meds if no side effects maybe %90 of the planet, but they can be worse than the illness or they can be tolerated there is no other answer ,you either take them warts an all or you dont simple  |
Then I must have made it to the 20mg target dose, I take meds as prescribed. 10 weeks, when I vowed to myself if this sexual side effect came back, I wanted off the med, wasn't going to work for me, this time around. I did stop having the physical depression, coming off the med. It all started with the common cold. The joys of having a neurological illness, on top of it all.
I do agree, for many people, if these side effects didn't occur, maybe more would use the AD's that are out there.
The original poster, 5 years!!! FIVE years!!! There's just got to be a better formula, out there. There are things, about being on Ad's that I do like, but overall. There's things that I need to be able to experience in my life, and maybe it's something some need to deal with, you mention aggression, as coming off a med...darnit all!!!
I felt it necessary to go back to my Doctor. Why wouldn't I have?? Why should I have to put up with the things that I was feeling when I went on the med???