Lexapro - for social discomfort - anyone tried it?

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I break the 10 mg pills in half.

Oh well, I will see what happens. I hope nothing bad in the nether regions.

Maybe just thinking about this will elevate my anxiety to the point where I would have been better off without the medication.

Last edited by pandabear on 02 Nov 2007, 1:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Whenever I took an SSRI, my legs got really restless at night and I had a hard time falling asleep. It stopped most of my anxiety. I learned who to get through bill paying sessions, slowly and deliberately without trying to outrun oncoming anxiety but I didn't want to be under the influence of a drug 24/7.

It took a long time to convince the doctor that Xanax would be a great help and I wouldn't become an addict. I don't take it everyday. I save it for scary times. Just keeping it with me, knowing that I could rescue myself with it, makes me feel calmer.

So, Xanax might be a better solution?

Maybe in the near future, when I get through my present employment difficulty, and the source of much of my present anxiety is behind me.

Xanax raises red flags with doctors, big time. If you take Xanax, too often, whenever you feel a little nervous, it's like your body sweeps all tne nervousness forward into a bigger pile until the Xanax doesn't work and you're stuck with a huge monsterous anxiety situation.

But if you keep it for when you know you need to avoid anxiety because of some occasion, it's good. It lasts about three hours.

Your doctor, if he or she is anything like the doctors I had to talk to, will try their best to convince you to take a daily medication. Those are expensive. Xanax is cheap and you shouldn't take it everyday so there's even more savings.

I take Zoloft and Xanax every day. It works fine. I hated Lexapro. I went off of it cold turkey after almost 2 months, but don't let that scare you. Medicines often effect different people differently.

Tried Lexapro. It was one of the few that didn't react badly with me. Nothing fabulous but did help through a tough time. (About half of them have the opposite effect on me)

I seem to have gone soft.

To my knowledge, erectile dysfunction is not commonly associated with Lexapro. However, that would obviously be an issue to raise with your physician.

It may be due more to my overall state of anxiety right now than to anything else.

Maybe what this site needs is a forum specific to pharmaceutical and other medical issues. There is quite a lot to wade through on the General Autism Discussion section to see what other people are saying about medicines.