Thanks for the feedback. I did take it today. One of the reasons I'm taking Luvox is for health OCD. So, the fear of the side effects is pretty pronounced for me. The worst being the psychiatric ones...
Yeah the thing that's scaring me is I can't tell if this kind of empty feeling im getting is a side effect or just what the med is making me feel. Like theres a film over everything and I'm kind of...
Sorry I'm a broken record. Need advice. Luvox: Day 11. Haven't taken it yet. I really don't know if I can continue. I don't feel like myself. I'm on vacation with my family and not enjoying it. I...
Right. Today is day 8 and I feel like crap. Trying to stick it out. I hate the kind of empty apathetic feeling the most....
Hi everyone. I have been put on Luvox, after Lexapro and Prozac both made me way worse at about the 2.5 week mark. (horrible anxiety, surges of adrenaline, just a bad scene). My new pdoc feels as...
Yeah I know. I try now to just google "Luvox success stories" if anything. There are actually a lot more positive than there are negative so that's good. I just can't stand the start up period. Day 3...
Thanks a lot S.C. I am going to stay positive. I made a small error this morning and got a little too far into reading about side effects from Luvox but I am just gonna take it and forget it. If I...
Hi again. So I saw two different psychs. Well, the first one they did the old switcheroo and I saw a nurse practicioner who had her head in her laptop the whole time. Gave me a pee test and said come...
hi again. So the head pressure got al ittle better, but has been coming back with a vengeance the last few days. I took antibiotics and all that. didn't do anything. Last week it got to the point...
So i saw my ortho. He thinks bulging discs in my neck are causing or at least contributing to the tingling in my arm and thumb twitches. The head pressure is still persisting. It's been almost a...
Hi there, So I was pretty bad a few months ago. I was put on Prozac, which made me a million times worse. I stopped after about 2 weeks and aroudn the same time had an endoscopy which showed reflux...
hi. im probably being a little on the cuckoo side but after my endo on Friday I havent' felt great. first it was a gagging/lump in throat feeling and a feeling like food was scraping me behind my...
Really trying. My wife is getting so frustrated and i feel terrible for putting her through this but I just feel so physically awful...
I understand but it's so hard to believe. I read what you're saying and I think to myself, "but it HAS gotten worse"...
A few months maybe. Doesn't really seem to come and go....
This ones really got me. Lump in throat. Trouble swallowing. Tongue feels weird in my mouth. I just had a normal endoscopy which has actually made my fear of ALS worse. I want so badly to beat this...
Feeling like every time I swallow, even if it's saliva, I'm going to gag, or that it is getting stuck in my esophagus. I've also got a lot of chest pressure. Is this something that can happen after...
Thanks. I'm feeling a little better after taking Ativan. My supply of those is short though and my GP and pdoc are both weird about prescribing so I'll see how that goes. Had a Normal endoscopy...
Hi. I really want to get through this. More than anything. I decided to take the Prozac because my health anxiety is ruining my life. But after 5 days of it, I feel worse than ever. I can't function...
After a few months of staring at the bottle, i decided that i owe it to myself to give it a shot. I was on it in college and it helped, so here is to hoping that it helps this time around as well....
thanks. i actually had a decent day this Saturday. I didnt feel the symptoms too much. I realized something that day though. Because I wasn't reallyf eeling the symptoms, i did things that i wouldnt...
but of course im like, maybe those werne't the right tests!!...
This is making me so mental. I'm crying randomly. I feel like I'm being strangled at all times. I took Ativan and laid down this morning and just tried to relax. I fell asleep for a bit but woke up...
@larry, thanks. I am constantly worried that I am going to leave my wife and daughter. In fact, a large part of the reason I am reticent about having a second child is that I'm convinced I'd be...
Yep. Totally what i did....
Thanks. I made a wrong turn and am now freaking out that my swallowing issues are due to ALS. Coupling that with the muscle issues I've been having is a cocktail for disaster....
Hi. Just checking in because I need to write. Went to GI doc today. He listened to and basically said we just have to do an endoscopy to be sure if anything is going on in there. So That will happen...
Thanks @scaredycat. I actually have done some of that stuff. I did a good amount of the moodgym exercises....
Thanks guys. I got the GI appt. moved up to next Monday. As far as anxiety management, just been exercising and taking xanax as needed (a lot less than I was taking it a few months ago. Maybe once...
I have not been feeling well for months. Its been a lot of things, but most consistently shortness of breath, feeling of lump or SOMETHING in throat, constant burping after eating or drinking...
Considering starting it. Have mostly heard that it doesn't do much....
So i went to the urgent care today, because of course I did. he said that my chest thing is definitely muscular and not to be worried at all that its anything worse. Then he looked in my mouth, said...
thanks for the replies. a bit calmed down now....
its not so much that my pain moves around, but my interpretation of the pain changes. So i have the breathing thing, which one day I think is lung cancer, the next GERD. This pain in my sternum is...
I did see that. Thanks....
I can't get out of my head with these symptoms: Pain in my sternum (where shoulder meets breastbone)- Dr. said costochondritis (i don't think so, symptoms dont seem to match) Shortness of breath all...
thanks all. I'm just a mess. I'm sitting here thinking of all the specialists I want to make appointments with because I just can not seem to feel better no matter what i do....
Hi So its on the front of my neck but toward the bottom, not quite at the clavicle. It's maaaaybe pea sized, but barely. I can move it around. and of course have been doing so on and off for the last...
hi there, just updating again. saw p-doc today. Always striking to me how clinical that whole process is. I know that they are the medicine men and not the talkers, but it still always takes me back...
I did get an appointment with a p-doc for monday. I talked to my GP, and she actually told me to INCREASE my dose, not decrease. I really don't want to do that at all. It really scares me that...
Just wanted to update. I have started cutting the lexapro in half and taking 5mg at night instead of 10. Last night was the 2nd night of doing this and this morning was the first one all week when I...
Thanks SC Yeah this is very rough. I have had intrusive thoughts in the past but not for a very long time. It's hard to tell if they are happening from the medicine or because I know they can happen...
today even worse. Couldn't stop crying this morning. Having intrusive thoughts of suicide. (not actual suicidal thoughts. I know that most people understand this who are on these boards but I still...
I should mention that I am also on Xanax. I guess that it does help a little. I'm really at the tipping point right now, and of course doing all kinds of research on Lexapro and withdrawals. It seems...
I really don't know that I can stick with this. These last two days have been really bad. I'm having panic, intrusive thoughts, and more anxiety than I had before I started taking the pills. I'm...
SC: I started because of health anxiety. Thanks a lot. Did you used to be on a different Health Anxiety Message Board ten years or so ago?...
Lexapro question: been on 10 mg for 25 days and just this week have been feeling jittery and uneasy. I didn't actually feel that way before I started taking it so I'm worried that I'm making myself...
Thought I was doing better. Then today, after about 20 minutes of pretty light housework, the chest pressure hit me. Then left arm. Neck. I shoveled two feet of snow for an hour the other day and...
Thanks Andy Yeah, I was on a super high dose of levaquin for weeks. Also was on flagyl and vancomycin through iv in the hospital. I've definitely suspected that this could have something to do with...
Thanks for the responses guys. All helpful. I just started the Lexapro on Friday. I know it won't cure me or anything, but hoping it will help get me out of the circular thinking. I am definitely...