At my wits end...

I have been on an upped dose of Lexapro for 6 days now, and it is now to the point I can barely function, feel incredible hopelessness, agitated, can only get out of bed for brief periods at a time, cry and today I have had a revolving panic attack.

I called my doctor once, my daughter came to my house and saw how bad I was doing(literally to the point that I am almost at the end of my rope) She has called them literally 4 times, even asking them if they could give me a crisis number to call that is how bad it is.

I can't be admitted in a crisis unit, because I have to take care of my son, and my daughter is here with me for a while till I hopefully can get help.

I have a splitting headache that won't go away and I just am worthless to anyone at this point, what do you do when your doctor will NOT call you back?, and the hopelessness will not subside?

I went back to your other thread. I see you have been on Lexapro for five months. That is plenty of time to know that it isn't working. I would tell the doctor you want to try something else. Enough is enough... Either that or add a mood stabilizer to the Lexapro. It often will help the med work better. But by the sound of it, the med isn't working at all.

I hope that you feel better soon. Have you thought about changing doctors? Is this one giving you any help at all?

Hang in there...

Hugs, Karen...

Hi Crazyhazy,

I hate waiting on doctors to call me. I am sorry that this happened and I hope you can get it straightened out soon.

Hugs, Karen...

PS Welcome to the depression forum. I see you post on A&P... That is a good forum...