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Lexapro..stay on or stay off?

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john20740
john20740

Made a rash decision to come of Lexapro on Sunday and have had such bad withdrawals since (nausea, diarrhea, anxiety etc).

Long story short I get terrible dry mouth from both sertraline and lexapro. It's also my main anxiety symptom.

I changed to Lexapro a month ago to see if dry mouth would go away -- it didn't. I started on 5mg and went down to 2.5mg. My dr basically said it was up to me if i wanted to go up in mg or go off it. I said go off but dont think it's worth it so went back on again.

Anyone experience similar? My dr said 2.5-5mg is basically placebo.

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  • roseywosey23
    roseywosey23 john20740

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    if its working for you that side effect should be relatively easy to adjust to. I wish i never came off Lexapro, it was amazing for me
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