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I've been taking escitalopram for 1 year, I was told by my GP that I would only be on it for few months. I only take 5mg every day and I feel good at the moment with no real feelings of depression like before. However I would like to come off them and have tried a few times, but do start to feel low again. What the best thing to do, and what has anyone else experienced coming off them?
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my panic attacks started on 15 August 2008, my doctor prescribed me escitalopram 10mg, and after 2 months i felt like that if im totally fine, so my doctor advised me to decrease the dose to 5mg. but after 1 month my attacks started coming back and i gradually came back to the same situation i was in before taking this medicine. again my doctor increased the dose and now after 5 months im feeling better and i want to stop this medicine but my doctor advised me to complete 6 months of medication and then we will decrease. hope this time i will succeed.lets see after 1 month what happens.
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My advice - do a good course of the drug, even if it's 12 months, get some CBT counselling for your anxiety/panic/depression problems then slowly come off the drug.