Posted by Glydin on February 23, 2006, at 6:55:32
In reply to Lexapro/Klonopin - GAD and Insomnia, posted by Comet on February 22, 2006, at 13:33:41
I was on Klonopin as a single med for three years and began Lexapro about a year ago. The startup on Lex was rather intense for a few weeks and the startup was eased by increasing (briefly) my Klonopin dose. Lexapro has been wonderful for me and I rarely use Klonopin - the use being basically as needed.
My diagnosis is GAD with panic - I struggled with garden variety anxiety of ruminations and have had agoraphobia. I had untoward effects from SSRI's, Wellbutrin, and Cymbalta in the past - thus the single therapy K for years. I fought the idea that depression was part of my mix and felt depressive symptoms only happened with ill controlled anxiety. The truth was, I did have depression although anxiety IS my primary problem.
Take my experience with a grain of salt, I'm a bit of a psych meds unicorn and my results don't appear to be typical of internet mental health consumer posters.
Hope you work things out for yourself.
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