I take Lexapro 10 mgs for depression. I discovered that it lowers anxiety too. The anxiety effect happened after a month and a half or so though. For me, it is like icing on the cake since I wanted help with lack of energy, focus problems and crying too much and got a nice effect on my worrying my head off. I take it in the morning because my doctor thought it might cause insomnia (one possible side effect). I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to cry, go back to bed and throw up at the same time. Not how I wanted to feel while running a cash register. My first night, I kept feeling like I might throw up which screwed up my sleep for a few nights. After that, I started to adjuct physically to having more serotonin in my brain and stomach. I haven't found any effects on eating. I still am gaseous and smelly too often. I sometimes think that eating is my problem. My body just doesn't like food anymore. I have thought about beano to see if that works. If you have good luck with an improvement in physical problems, let us know.