Posted by lil' jimi on September 25, 2003, at 13:56:38
In reply to Re: Lexapro stop working???, posted by MandyJane on September 25, 2003, at 12:54:30
hi MandyJane,
you've got a month on me .... i've been on lex since march ...
... really Really sorry it's not helping you now ...
... i am having to keep a list here ... let me see ...
... okay, we have
Galkeepinon
Banab
Sussus
maybe Mariposa, sorta
Patty
and now, you ...
... who have had relapse-like experiences later in your lexapro treatment ... ... well after any initial adaptaion SEs anyway ....... what dose are you taking now ?
... can you up your dose, as Mariposa suggests ?i am very sorry for your suffering and i very much appreciate you writing to us here about it ... ... we can use all of the reports we can get ...
lately i've begun to see suggestions of lexapro-"poop out"-syndrome here, but even with all of the cases here ... it would seem to be a very small class of our lex users ... ... _Not_ to say that every single one of us is anything less than precious ... because we all need each other here .... but, (imho), i feel that the evidence so far still does not support this as an universal lex syndrome because there are many users who have continued to be relieved at eight months and more ....
... here for all it's worth is My Own Theory about these lex-mid-treatment-relapses ....
... ... i think of our (individual) neurochemical/intrasynaptic dynamic equilibriums (equilibria?) in the abstract, as if it's an object, such as one of the solids from geometry, like a sphere or and ellipsoid ... ... whereas it is actually a resonating fluid composed of a jillion particles, each one being a neurotransmitter or one of their relatives ... all buzzing around on their uptake paths and their re-uptakes ...
... i envision lexapro as impacting this neurochemical cloud by changing these vibrations among the particles to improve the equilibrium ...
i just imagine (using the pictures i was trying to draw) that lexapro may achieve an early stable equilibrium only to have the system (cloud, object, solid, whatever) compensate for it after an interval , and then needing a higher dose to re-stabilize our neurotransmitter dynamics back up to their higher, recovered equilibrium ... ... with a to-be-hoped-for higher serotonin levels ....
try to hang in there
... ... actually to respond to your suggestion: ... i do not know about issues that medication won't help ... i know they won't help my financial issues, not directly anyway .... but when it comes to emotional disorders, i tend to think that folks will need neurotransmitter support to aid their recovery ... ...
thanks for posting!
TAKE CARE !!!
~ jim
poster:lil' jimi
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