Cipralex

hi Hopeful and welcome!

I am sorry that you are going through this anxiety and related symptoms right now. Rest assured that you are not alone, and there have been many posts similiar to yours here.

We have a great Resource Guide here that you may want to take a look at to get you started. It is full of links with anxiety reducing practices such as breathing and relaxing exercises, as well as on-line therapy.

These could help to get you through until your medication starts to work for you.

If youi find that you are still having trouble managing your anxiety, I would recommend talking to your doctor about a therapy referral. Many members here find that a combination or medication and therapy is the right treatment for them.:)

Keep posting here with us as well. It is great to be part of a comunity where there are others who understand and support each other!

Scaredy Cat

Hopeful,

Welcome aboard HW. 

Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent.

If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor. Sometimes what has worked for me is to slowly increase the dose - instead of increasing the dose now, I would talk with your Dr. about waiting until you are no longer feeling dizzy. 

Try not to take your BP and just go about your daily life while at the same time practicing some of the ideas that you will find in our resources.  Here are links to a few:

Self Help sites with breathing/relaxation exercises instructions

Panic attack relief exercises:

http://www.healthyplace.com/

http://www.stress-relief-exercises.com/

http://www.ehow.com/video_4405003_breathing-exercises-panic-attacks.html

http://www.psybersquare.com/anxiety/panic_relax_I

Trust that you will get better and keep working with your therapist.  If cost is a problem for you perhaps you can check and see if you could get a reduce cost for therapy. 

Be well,

Kitt

Hi

Welcome to the forum good to meet you. I take the Cipralex (Also known as Lexapro & Escitalopram) and have found it to be a good medication for me it is classed in the ssri's and is one of the stronger ones hence a max dose of 20mg. I had all the same side effects you described but they did decrease once my body got used to the medication.

I still get some side effects but they are not to troublesome these kind of medication can take between 6-8 weeks before the benefits can be felt. It is always a good idea to keep in contact with your GP so that they can monitor your progress I go and see mine every 4 weeks.

Hibee

No worries. Yes the receptionists can be a pain at doctors surgeries I have had a few run in's and have felt they thought nothing was wrong with me.

Hibee

DOes Cipralex slow your heart beat? Mine is in the sixties now, it was normally higher?

Hi I went out off very abusive relashionship with very manipulative men and that was August 2012 now is jan 2013 and I started feeling better but he called me recently to tell me how he is seeing other girls and how he doesn't care anymore for me, trying to make me feel bad about myself and he succeeded. I feel so depressed and down so I went to my doc and he got me in cipralex 10 mg it's my second day.mornings are bad. I feel Like I'm gonna die. I was on this med for a month in sept and I felt so good after that I stopped using it. I think I will continue this time. Of anyone has some good thoughts ti share please be welcome. I think this site I very suprtice and I feel good by reading it. All the best falls in 2013.