Posted by Bonnie_CA on March 24, 2007, at 18:16:00
So after being on Zoloft for about 3-4 months, I switched to Lexapro. I'm on 10 mg of Lexapro. I wish things were better.
I am always tired, and I have a hard time making it through the day without a nap. Nap or no nap, it's impossible to fall asleep at night. Of course, this is basically no change from Zoloft or anything else I've taken in the past year or so. Actually, I did okay with another stint with Celexa, and it was okay until it didn't work again. I'm surprised Lexapro isn't working the same. I don't know if I need a higher dose or I just need to be on something else. I've been on Lexapro about 6 weeks now. I am really depressed (which is not the reason I take it, I take it for anxiety), have zero libido, and I'm just too tired to do anything (even though I don't actually sleep much). Celexa never did any of those things. In fact, it probably had the least side effects of any of the SSRIs I've taken. I'm totally shocked that I feel so blah on Lexapro. For example, I really and sincerely want to clean my house right now. It's a mess. But I just can't seem to get myself to do it. And it makes me feel bad. I have papers to grade. I haven't been able to make myself do that, and they're backed up two weeks. I am so frustrated that I see so many things to be done and I just can't bring myself to do any of them. I've even been procrastinating on doing normal things, like grocery shopping and visiting friends. I have been using drive-thrus as much as possible. I haven't been terribly social. I've been trying to keep up a good face, but I feel like I'm crumbling.
I have started seeing a therapist and a pdoc. Real ones, not like I had before. I have an appointment on Monday with the T, and I'm going to tell him how I've been feeling lately. Of course his issue isn't my meds, but he is actually friends with my pdoc, and I'd have a hard time believing they don't discuss patients in common. I signed the paper saying they could, so I imagine that if a message needed to be sent to the pdoc, it will be.
My pdoc thinks I might be BP2. I've thought this also, and I think there's something I want to do before I try something that would be treating BP and not GAD. I have wondered if the reason I had dizziness and balance trouble was actually an inner ear problem. I never actually had THAT checked, and it seems so likely since I have allergies and I know my eustacian tube in the left side of my head is "wet" all the time. I never had allergies until I went to college (when I was diagnosed), and while they were mild, it seems so possible that it could have been an ear problem causing some of my symptoms. Then that would clear the idea that yes, I could be BP. If the ear thing and BP were the case, then I think things would make perfect sense. The pdoc was very interested in my reactions to the meds I took last year. I had read that my reaction can be indicitive of BP, and he brought that up. For the time being, until he gets more info, he's going to stick with my original diagnosis (GAD with panic). I'm just so glad to be seeing doctors who are NOT part of a huge exclusive group.
I guess I don't really have a question, and since I haven't been posting regularly I probably won't get but a few responses, but I figured I'd put out there how I'm doing and see if anyone can relate.
-Bonnie
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