lexapro

hi
Is anyone out there taking lexapro?

or ever did try it?

I'm getting shreaking pains down my legs?

not sure if it's from medication?


bucci

Helen,
thanks for your reply.

My pharmacologist doesn't really like the idea of me taking lexapro because she
thinks it could set off a manic episode.
But lamictal made me feel like i wanted to kill myself
and lithium????? i can't remember why I didn't like that. Maybe because of the thyroid
thing.

but I am so flattened out and in pain that she gve me the lexapro.
I been getting insane leg pains, like double sciaticaa down both legs.
But it could be from cutting back on cortisone.
OR maybe because I'm in bed all the time.

I felt the lexapro the second day. It help clear brain fog. I didn't take it yesterday
and still had the leg cramps plus was really flattened out.

I have hep c for too long now.

anyway thanks for the input.

So did you stop taking the lexapro and were fine after that?

bucci

Hi Helen,

I took the Lexapro 2 yrs ago for about 3 months and it got me in a very good mood.  I was in a black hole with Hep C and my Mom had leukemia.  I stopped taking it because I felt like it was giving me urges to drink wine.  Maybe I was getting a little too up. anyway,  i stopped taking it and remained pretty cheerful, so cheerful that I got on a plane to India!  I was too sick for a trip like that but perhaps a little delusional from the lexapro even though I was no longer taking it.  I was in India for aover 6 weeks, the las 3 I checked myself into an Ayurvedic treatment facility in middle of nowhere because I was too sick to get back on a plane.  Just very run down from liver stuff.

I realized later that I would be considered more of a bipolar type and ssri are not good because they create manic episodes.

Now I see a pharmacologist who is great but I don't like to take meds either.

I tried lamictol in a desperate moment but I was actually having visions of killing myself the first day.  I thought it was all in MY MIND so stayed on for2 more days and quit.

Now  being so depressed and flattened out I begged my Dr to let me go on Lexapro for short time with xtra close monitoring.

I took it for 4 days.  I had instantly felt a little brighter in the head even though still flattened out but then stopped.

Have you ever tried a rebounder.   The mini trampoline.  it is best workout for lymph and happy cells.

I was at this place Tree of Life for a couple of months and they did a movie about 6 diabetics who worked with the Dr. there (Gabriel Cousins)

for 30 days and ate only raw food and suppliments.

I have seen also in otehr raw food places like Ann Wigmore programs unbelievable resuts for diabetics.  There is a place in upstate NY that has retreats only in summer time that is beautiful and clean and less expensive than any other place I've been to.  Most people book a year n advance.  It was called bodymindretreat.com

Might be worth looking into for your diabetes.

Thanks for you feed back.  Much appreciated.  A lot of these sites people look in but don't write in.  It's good to hear you.

have a great day, Helen.

Bucci