Posted 3/12/2017 7:20 PM (GMT 0)
Matt:
You say:
"I stop my medication (lexapro 10mg) maybe like 5 months ago trying to see if I could just be ok."
I stopped my meds once because of a combination of my bad and the doctor's bad. And guess who paid for it? Me.
I had an anxiety attack from going off too many medicines too fast. Then I took too many medicines too fast to try to stop the anxiety attack, and it caused a physical problem that I still have with me today, decades later.
So, you know what side of the ledger I'm on.
Did you go off your medicine without talking to your doctor? Do you walk on a high wire? You wanted to put a little adventure in your life? How did you go off the medicine, did you just quit taking it?
You're supposed to go off of them slowly, if you go off of them at all without telling your doctor.
After going off of your medicine, you then say,
"Now I'm feeling a lot of health anxiety and I can't sleep and it's driving me crazy because I don't think it's anxiety I think it's something physical.i been to the er 4-5 times and everything was normal."
You went off your medicine without telling your doctor about it? And you lived to tell about it? You aren't unlucky going to the ER 4-5 times, you're lucky.
You ask,
"im wondering if I could start back up on the lexapro again after being off of it for that long."
Well, yeah. I mean, what am I missing here? I should have never gone off of my medicines, so who am I to talk?
But yeah, I think as a fellow patient that you should go back on your medicine.
Maybe write down when you take it, so you'll know when you started back, and then take it again the next time it's due.
You should contact your doctor on Monday, I think, and get an appointment. When it your next appointment? Is he or she a psychiatrist?
Like me, I hope we're learning by this.
That does happen, I've done it myself probably. The medicine is what makes us better. It doesn't cure us. But we think we're cured, and may go off of our medicine, thinking we're well. We aren't. We're just improved because of the medicine.
You say, "Now I'm feeling a lot of health anxiety and I can't sleep and it's driving me crazy because I don't think it's anxiety I think it's something physical.i been to the er 4-5 times and everything was normal."
So it's probably not physical, it's your nerves from being off medicine, and think its physical.
One the net, it says Lexipro is an anti-depressant which also helps with anxiety.
One drugs.com, to the question,
"I've been having severe withdrawal symptoms after my doctor made me ween off of Lexapro recently. These symptoms are severe restless leg syndrome all throughout the day, being jittery, uneasiness, and being overall restless. I'm also sleeping a lot less, waking up during the night, and I've been smoking a lot more, and I mean a lot. Has anyone else experienced these types of withdrawal symptoms from Lexapro?"
Someone answered. "Yes."
You say, again, ""I stop my medication (lexapro 10mg) maybe like 5 months ago trying to see if I could just be ok."
Even though stopped taking it five months, as a fellow patient, I think you should resume it. You can call or visit the ER and ask. You can go to drugs.com on net, under Lexipro, I guess, and see what they have to say.
In the search engine, type in: "Lexipro" and "Leipro withdrawal" will be one of the 6 or 8 suggestions on the drop down list. I clicked on "Lexipro withdrawal" and it brought me to "drugs.com" to the Lexipro section, with the above question(s) and answer(s).
How about letting us know what's going on?