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Can feel anti depressant peaking and it’s awful

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kelly21582
kelly21582

I'm taking lexapro for 20 days now. Just 5 mg is all I can tolerate.

For 6 hours after I take my Lexapro, I can feel extreme duress and agitation. This is apparently its peak time . Anyone else able to feel their med in a bad way (not just nausea also horrible I know )after taking it?

for reference . .... I crashed and burned hard in Feb/March, ( still no balance bed bound) , after tapering Luvox very slowly and i couldnt get back on it for some reason my body wouldn't tolerate it .

thanks for replies.

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  • yuss88
    yuss88 kelly21582

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    hi kelly! i used to take luvox a long time ago and similarly the second time i didnt tolerate it so switched to lexapro/escitalopram. what you are experiencing are the start up side effects and because the medicine isnt stable in your system that is why you feel it peak every day after a certain number of hours - the same thing happened to me. this can take 12 weeks to settle and generally things feel worse before they get better. take each day one day at a time and be really kind to yourself. this is my second time on lexapro and it took me 12 weeks for the side effects to stop. things started improving for me at 14 weeks. this journey takes time. give yourself 8-12 weeks on 5mg since you say you are sensitive; some people do recover on 5mg but the majority like me take the therapeutic dose of 10mg for full benefit

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