Can Lexapro stop working after one month?

[Ryan]

I started taking 2.5mg of Lexapro one month ago for bad anxiety depression and OCD, and then 16 days ago my doctor told me to start taking 5mg. I felt better than I have in years up until yesterday morning when I woke up and had this weird gloomy feeling and had anxiety. Is it possible for the Lexpro to already stop working? Or do i need to go up to a higher dose? I'm nervous that when I up the dose it will only work for a while and then I will have to keep upping the dose. Has anyone had this happen? Please help!

[Ryan]

Anyone please!

[jj_mclure]

i take 5mg. you take a low so i would so you are more prone to taking some hits when you have a bad day. you are going to have those every once in awhile on that dose. but if you can get away with taking 2.5 then that's great. i take 5mg and yes I do have bad days but on average 90% of my days are good. this drug is dose dependent and it's not a total shield from emotional bumps in the road. you have to get down sometimes. it's a safety valve. otherwise you will become a mental vegetable.

[Ryan]

jj_mclure wrote:

i take 5mg. you take a low so i would so you are more prone to taking some hits when you have a bad day. you are going to have those every once in awhile on that dose. but if you can get away with taking 2.5 then that's great. i take 5mg and yes I do have bad days but on average 90% of my days are good. this drug is dose dependent and it's not a total shield from emotional bumps in the road. you have to get down sometimes. it's a safety valve. otherwise you will become a mental vegetable.

I've been taking 5mg's also for about 15 days now and the last couple of days I feel like I'm f'd up on drugs or something. I felt better than I have in a long time up until couple of days ago and I noticed that I've had a little anxiety the last couple of days too. Does this ever happen to you or anyone else?

[Crain626]

I think Lexapro does strange things to people...I have never felt a single side effect from any drug ever, I was started on 20mg of Lexapro about a month ago and for a week or so my pupils were huge, I felt like I was holding my eyes wide open, and I felt like I was on cocaine...jittery and full of energy, then I got really agitated for a few days, like it wasn't working. Then last week I started feeling exhausted about halfway through the day...I didn't attribute it to Lexapro until it occurred to me today to look it up, but I have been feeling like I don't have the energy to get up and finish anything that I've started the past week or so. I think also from looking at this site that I was started on a high dosage of this stuff, that may be why my side effects were so noticeable.