I have an important quick question if somebody could please help me...

Hello everyone... I hope everyone is well... I've been struggling with some severe acute anxietyfor over a year now. my last two weeks have been so bad but I'm not sure what to do. I am sweating through the night and I Wake Up 3 to 4 times a night completely panicked. also throughout my day I have a churning stomach and a headache on top of it all I have derealization and agoraphobia... I'm so distant from my family and it's breaking my heart especially my daughter I'm like a bear that runs into her cave I guess it's my jail cell or safe spot or whatever it may be... I actually feel like I'm incarcerated at this point and it's an awful way to live. The point of this post is that I am on 5 milligrams of Lexapro and I struggle everytime I try to up my meds... I can't take anymore side effects because I've been living in this dreaded hell for over a year now but I thought about something a few minutes ago and I was wondering what you all advice is about it... if I take 5 milligram of Lexapro at 9 a.m. in the morning could it be possible if I take another 5 milligram at 5 p.m. at night??? Please I need your advice stories anything you can give me on if this is good bad or indifferent to do... Thank you all so much... ♡GG♡

Gypsygirl, i posted this several days ago, my wife suffered with agoraphobia for close to 20 years i know how you feel, she would either sleep or cry, get up to go potty, and thats it, it was a major struggle to get her ready to see the doctor, Keep in mind that this was over thirty years ago and not much in meds were available, in the mid 80's she spent the whole summer in confinement in a mental hospital, then a few new meds came on the sean and Prozac was one of them, they started her out on 80mg and it just kept her asleep then they started cutting her back, after a while she leveled out on 20mg and is still there that was thirty years ago, her maintenance meds are ativan, prozac she does real well on them, I know nothing about the new stuff but i am thankful you have it, you will begin to pull out of this stay in close contact with your prescribing doctor, and "Make them listen to you". Peace
Larry ***