Hi Cali.

I actually just came off of Lexapro yesterday. The side effects were very tolerable for me. They definitely wore off after about a week and a half. I was kind of shaky, had some stomach trouble, and headaches-- but like I said-- it all disappeared.

My pdoc put me on it in addition to my mood stabilizer b/c I had gone into a pretty bad depression. However, I didn't go on the Lex until about the 6th week of my depression, so by the time I went on it, the depression had naturally lifted a few days later.

I called my pdoc yesterday because I was running out, and wanted to know if he still thought I should be on it. My anxiety used to be manifested through severe panic attacks, but that is not the case anymore. Now it manifests itself through obsessive, mostly catastrophic thoughts and visualizations. (Much more fun, I can assure you, lol). It seemed as if the thoughts and visualizations had been getting more intense lately along with some other hypomanic-like symptoms. So my pdoc said that since I'm out of the depression anyway, to just cut the Lex-- it's not helping my anxiety anyway.

Incidentally, I have been doing the med thing while in school also. I've gone through many times where my meds (or my depression and anxiety symptoms) make it near impossible to get my schoolwork done. Just keep at it. I hope you are feeling better.