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Posted by Dazzle on May 2, 2003, at 22:37:08
I have been taking 10 mg. of Lexapro for 4 months now..I have been on numerous other antidepressants when I finally found one that worked for me! :)
My only complaint I have with Lexapro is I feel like I have short term memory loss, almost as if I'm in a dream world, someone can tell me something and within a few minutes I ask them the same question that they just answered! I feel like I'm in a fog quiet often..I remember my mother being on antidepressants when I was younger and she drove me nuts with her "goofyness" of being forgetful, asking dumb questions..etc..Now here I am doing the exact same thing!! I now know what my mother has been feeling like all these years!!!
Does anyone else feel out of sorts on Lexapro?
Posted by Eddie Sylvano on May 4, 2003, at 17:01:39
In reply to Lexapro..Forgetfulness..., posted by Dazzle on May 2, 2003, at 22:37:08
> Does anyone else feel out of sorts on Lexapro?
---------------I just posted something relating to this. The nutshell version is that I tend to feel much more distractable, forgetful, and "out of it" on ADs. It's like the brain has a seesaw with mood on one end and focus on the other. Stress either, and you jeapordize the whole. A gross simplification, to be sure, but it rings true to me.
Posted by Dazzle on May 5, 2003, at 16:27:10
In reply to Re: Lexapro..Forgetfulness..., posted by Eddie Sylvano on May 4, 2003, at 17:01:39
Thank you for your resonse Eddie.
I just went to the doctor today and explained how the Lexapro was making me feel, he suggested I take Ginkgo Biloba and said it wouldn't hurt mixing the two.
I went off the Lexapro last week but had to resume 3 days later..For now I actually feel normal and not living in that bubble world but I KNOW within days I will feel out of it again..it's like a dream state or a intoxicating type feeling??
I guess this is just a side effect I will have to tollerate because so far it's the only real drawback I have had unlike a lot of the other antidepressants I have tried in the past.
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