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",1 +"I know a lot of people have had success with Zoloft, but it is not the right one for me.",0 +"light headed and increased anxiety the first few days, then subsided.",1 +Exhaustion that was so bad I couldn't get out of bed.,1 +"The sleepiness disappeared, However, I have problems ejaculating.",1 +"Racing heart, severe anxiety, panic, nausea, speeded-up metabolism.",1 +Decreased sex drive.,1 +As I'm a nurse I was convinced I was having an allergic reaction and was terrified I was going to pass out.,0 +I hardly remember.,1 +"numb hands and feet during the first 2 weeks, sinus swelling, sligth headaches and nasea.",1 +"My sexual performance has improved greatly, as has my concentration and even driving skills!",0 +a day and a half of nausea .,1 +"DO NOT TAKE THIS CRAP IT HAS RUINED MY LIFE, CANNOT DRIVE.",1 +Im lucky I didnt die b/c I just stopped cold turkey one day and the brain zaps puking and overall feeling you get is like no other.,0 +No longer to enjoy the occasional glass of wine or champagne (can't tolerate any alcohol since starting Cymbalta) b/c it makes me too drowsy.,1 +I can tell you from mine and others experiences that the drug withdrawal symptoms are very severe and affect every body system you have.,0 +Overall not too bad comparing to LEXAPRO and previous paranoid state of mind.,0 +"I basically needed to use it to get rid of a severe anxiety that I let gradually build up on its own before I did anything about it, but I could feel it working in situations where I would normally get a little anxious as well.",0 +"Within a few days of starting lexapro oh my god the dreams are vivid, intense, long, and complex!",1 +I am now on Wellbutrin ( awesome ) but I am still on effexor and have decreased my dose which makes you feel outside of yourself.,0 +Took it in the evening and experienced nausea and drowsiness.,1 +"Sometimes I sleep so deep, that I can't even wake up to use the bathroom.",1 +can't stop eating.,1 +Started cying and laughing hysterically.,1 +"Initially loose bowels, headache, flu-like feeling.",1 +extreme lethargy; hungry more than usual; weight gain; zero motivation; memory issues (short term memory negatively affected); hopeless; social anxiety magnified.,1 +"I have not been able to work, take care of my husband or daughter, take care of my house or even make meals on a consistent basis for the past 5 weeks while I am trying to get off of this med.",0 +"Experienced extreme carb craving, and bizarre urge to consume alcohal all the time.",1 +will this pass?,0 +I also didn't like the weird feelings when I first started so I took half doses until I got used to them and then moved to the full dose.,1 +"fatigue,irritability,lack of appetite(without weight loss).",1 +Successful suicides result.,1 +"At least i finally managed to get some sleep last night, with the help of 2 stillnox tablets.",0 +"im exausted during the day, waking up in the night.",1 +"I constantly feel as if I am on the verge of a panic attack, I feel like sleeping all day, but have difficulty sleeping for more than 1 hour at a time even during the night.",1 +"all the time, yet will have trouble falling asleep at night, can nap for half a day no problem.",1 +Tried alot of other meds.,0 +"Unfortunately, I did not find much benefit!",0 +"Gained 65lbs while on 20mg, and about 30lbs while on 10mg, Since i've been off it, i've lost 13lbs so far (only been 3 weeks).",1 +I stopped taking it 3 days ago .,0 +"nausea, cotton mouth, and lack of appetite.",1 +My hands are swelled.,1 +"The first week I was on it, I threw up every day.",1 +help!,0 +You seriously feel worse than you did without the medication .,0 +As a result I am afraid of coming off the medication.,0 +The Lexapro has helped me to keep from dwelling on things I can't change.,0 +I'm very grateful my doctor put me on Cymbalta.,0 +"I've lost weight, increased activity, done better at work and get out and do things.",0 +"Started with 25mg for first 2 weeks, started with 50 mg for next 2 weeks.",0 +This site is fantastic it makes you realize you are not alone and that is a great help in itself.,0 +"Jaw clenching at night and during the day, Nausea, Stomache pain, loose bowel movements, followed by constipation, Feeling dehydrated, and dry mouth, Headaches, blurred vision, increased episodes of vertigo.",1 +I couldn't believe the side effects and how harsh they were.,1 +"I struggle to wake up in the morning, after finally getting to sleep.",1 +Changed my life.,0 +"Headaches, fitful sleeping and takes a while to get going in the morning.",1 +"On 90 mg I had sweating at night so that my clothes are drenched, somtimes multiple times at night.",1 +"Dizzy, nauseous, sweating, anxiety, uneasiness, restlessness, shivers,.",1 +"So, yeah, I know I'm an addict.",0 +They just said I was severely mentally ill and needed hospitalized and more and more medication.,0 +Haha.,0 +"Dizziness, dry mouth, mild sour stomach(no vomitting), slight insomnia, weight loss, mild apathy, decreased sex drive, and fatigue.",1 +While driving to a friends house crazy thoughts kept happening.,1 +"my doctor decided to put me on lexapro because when i get feeling better i think that i don't need anything and lexapro didn't have withdrawal effects, but i gained 35 pounds on it.",0 +"CARE ABOUT YOURSELF, DON'T TAKE IT!",0 +"To me it feels like you are feverish and it lasted maybe 5-6 weeks, Let's not be too dramatic here .",0 +"I'm not sure if I had any side effects, but I never felt any benefit from taking this drug, which both my psychiatrist and rheumatologist recommended. ",0 +big weight gain!,1 +But I do have the inability to eat or care about food.,1 +I have found myself waking up every 2-3 hours and general fatigue during the day.,1 +i don't recommend it.,0 +I am going to stick it out and hope that it starts to work soon.,0 +"Since last November my tendons on both arms started hurting by the elbow, then came extreme fatigue, and heaviness And pain in the calves of my legs came.",1 +"Then after a few months, more serious effects that I now believe were from the Lexapro started, like all-over itching and severe middle back pain, especially at night and upon waking in AM.",1 +headaches and insomnia. ,1 +"sweats, weight gain, dry mouth at beginning. ",1 +Wild dreams.,1 +That quickly turned into a three week period of sleep.,1 +"I would not reccommend this drug to anyone with anxiety issues, as it was not a very big help.",0 +Everyone needs to know the side effects of coming off of this drug when it is given to them!,0 +"I thought I could deal with it but after 4 months, I am feeling the exhaustion of not getting full nights' sleep.",1 +I can barely walk up a couple of stairs without a deep burning and fatigue within my muscles.,1 +My daily dosage is 60mg ,0 +Today was my 3rd dose of Zolft (50mg).,0 +bottom line is- it works with at least 4 weeks to get used to the new blueprint.,0 +"I had chest pain, heart palpitations, vomiting, headache, rage, mood swings, and more.",1 +"I'm not sure why i'm even getting off it, my mum is keen for me too cause she reckons it's bad long term, But Dr's tell me there's no evidence for that.",0 +or not being able to get out of bed because facing the depression and feelings your having is to much of a load on your heart/mind to bother.,0 +This dosage made me very sleepy about 5 hours after taking it.,1 +"6 weeks now and today i am starting 100mg dose, previously 50) Generally feeling better but will comment again in due course.",0 +Generally very mild.,0 +"I fired her and went back to my previous (male) GP, telling him if he didn't get me off this vile stuff I would hurt myself or someone else.",1 +I wasn't living; I was just existing.,0 +none. ,0 +DONT TAKE IT!,0 +"I laid on my sofa for hours, sometimes awake, sometimes asleep, feeling nauseated and listless.",1 +This drug has changed my life but it has now become so problematic given all the negative side effects that I am not so sure it has changed my life for all the better.,1 +I think zoloft was a great antidepressant.,0 +It was very very difficult to get my pain under control - they had me maxed out on narcotics.,0 +"After 2 weeks, the side effects went away, and the medication is fantastic.",1 +It is suppose to be not addictive but it has all the side effects of an addictive drug.,0 +"This was greatly improved by dropping the dose to 225) With my doctor's permission, I've recently dropped the dose to 150 mg I was wondering if the drug was increasing my appetite and if a lower dose might make a difference.",0 +"With an anti-depressant you MUST taper to your dose (I. e. Taking half of a pill for a week, then taking a whole pill afterwards.)",0 +Promotes seizures.,0 +Helped with depression but total lack of desire for sex,1 +"Unfortunately, I am being told by my physician that I am going to be gradually increased to 150mg/day since this is the typical treatment regime.",0 +I wish I could give this time to kick in but really I had problems while I was at work today and can't do the adjustment period.,1 +thoughts of suicide decreased.,0 +Very costly.,0 +"I'm tired all the time, have gained 10 pounds and can't think straight.",1 +My pockets were full of rocks everyday.,0 +"not that I'd want to be cry often but it is a good stress relief and now, nothing.",1 +"The drug has helped with the depression, however the side effects are awful.",1 +"jittery, can't sleep, no sex drive.",1 +"vision problems, the more I took it there would be vibration in my eyes, confusion.",1 +Had to be put on valium so I could eat.,1 +It was stimulating and I was hyper for a few months.,1 +"I'm now back on it and ""stable"" , but planning to wean slowly very slowly off it, take coution when weaning, start only as a last resault IMO, herbals, exersize and therapy, spiritual or other wise, anything but a drug as ADDICTIVE gravely so as this type, Yea, don't talk to me about so called addictive medicationsie opiates or benzos.",0 +"i've even heard voices, though, i'm not really sure if that's something that goes along with taking this medication.",0 +The worst side effect that I still expirience are: Libido is nonexistan.,1 +"It built up great courage, and reinstalled a strong sense of self esteem.",0 +It's somewhere between dizzy and light headed.,1 +"Electrical shocks, headaches, tremors, frequent urination, nausea, major anxiety.",0 +I experienced a bit of nausea and mild dizziness.,1 +"I was unable to sleep, had blurred vision, and felt sick to my stomach.",1 +Nothing that makes me feel like this could end up doing me any good.,0 +slipped into a dissociative episode and called the cops on my husband thinking he was a boyfriend who died almost 10 years ago and trying to kill me.,0 +A very good drug to try,0 +"(I used to consider myself a ""mini manic depressive"".)",0 +I take a stool softener to help with the constipation.,1 +I would go along a few days without one and then be so disappointed to have another one.,0 +weight loss at the very beginning.,1 +had no negative side-effects and loved Seratraline.,0 +"Easy as that, And DUH- withdrawal is gonna suck.",0 +I started investigating/researching Cymbalta and I noticed a common denominator.,0 +time on med in 1993 it worked great for me for about 2 years.,0 +I have to take Xanax 3 times a day and I don't think this drug is worth it.,0 +"Taking at same time is important, but at a low dose (150mg for past 3 years), can manage to go about 8 hours beyond usual dosage time with little effects.",0 +When I get nervous (which is often) my body will literally move in coordination with other people's bodies.,1 +"My Dr. didn't address the issue when he prescribed this medicine and when I told him I didn't want to take it any longer, he said only, ""skip a day in between doses for a couple of weeks"" to discontinue.",0 +I've been through most of the SSRI's.,0 +I had to d/c my meds a few days before a neck myelogram and had a very bad reaction to the lack of Effexor in my system.,0 +"Paxil was especially bad in this case, However, lexapro has had no effect on my libido, In fact, it may have increased it, ssri's are notorious for killing one's sex drive but this drug hasn't in my case.",0 +"Overall, I really feel positive about this drug, at least for myself.",0 +I also get bouts of suicidal thoughts.,1 +"All these happened the day of my first pill: Light headed, Dizzy, Extreme tiredness, Diarrhea, Jaw muscles tightening & clenching, Stuffy nose, migraine, Foggy, Zoning/trancelike, Apathy, Cold & chills, Trouble focusing eyes, Confusion, Nausea, Jaw clenching, Sweaty palms, Time/space discontinuity, Cant catch my breath, Tiredness or energetic, Memory loss, Tremors & twitching, Yawning, disorientation, Convulsions, 10mg.",1 +DO NOT DO THIS!,0 +I highly recommend and am so thankful for this medication.,0 +I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will work for me as well this time around as it did the first time.,0 +"I also have a horrible mountain dew addiction,but my weight gain has been small and my clothes still fit so I am not all that upset.",1 +"I used to have one negative thought that would snowball into two etc So with behavioral therapy and 100 mg a day of Zoloft, I was able to feel at ease.",0 +"increase in anxiety, weird floating feeling, sweaty palms, nausea, heartburn, waking up in middle of night for no reason, sexual performance issues.",1 +"Not sleeping for over 48 hours, heart palpitations, ending up in hospital in a manic state.",1 +"Isolating, fuzzy headed, poorer concentration now 9 months after switching to Cymbalta, time to switch back or on to another SSNRI/SNRI or hopefully, maybe, something better!",1 +WELL NO WAY THIS IS THE DRUG FROM HELL.,0 +I didn't care about anything.,1 +"weight gain, hairloss, hallucinations, back pain, muscle spasms, numbness in hands.",1 +"at first had some anxiety and still have insomnia, usually after sleeping only 4 hrs.",1 +Having vision problems.,1 +"Before, people always made me nervous, anxious or just uncomfortable in some way.",0 +These numbers only added to my anxiety.,1 +"However, I have tried to taper and quit several times and CAN'T.",0 +"On the positive side, I'm much more relaxed in tense situations.",0 +Zoloft has changed my life.,0 +I haven't needed to take a Xanax in a long time.,0 +"I've taken many ssri's (paxil cr, zoloft, prozac) and this one isn't much different.",0 +It felt stimulating and made me hyper for quite a while.,1 +I am struggling to learn new things.,1 +Sweating is worse.,1 +At 60 mg 1x day for a month I felt fine.,0 +my md stopped the 60mg cymbalta cold turkey and switched me to lexapro.,0 +Difficulty obtaining orgasim.,1 +This has been the best.,0 +In the first couple of weeks I had SEVERE drymouth and hated that.,1 +I would like to say to people that are thinking about taking this med. to really look at the side effects of withdrawal.,0 +"changed from effexor, which solved my depression and anxiety, because I started sleeping all of the time after being on it for about 10 months.",0 +None have helped my anxiety.,0 +I did experience relief of my depression initially with the 10mg per day dose.,0 +"tired, thirsty,, wasnt helpful",1 +"I can't seem to focus, my eyes are blurred and sensitive to the light.",1 +it could not be safe to take on a daily basis,0 +"I was able to function physically like a normal human being again for the first time in years, but I had no emotion whatsoever.",1 +It could be a coincidence.,0 +Generally felt pretty dull and had no sex drive whatsoever.,1 +within hours of missing a dose.,0 +"Now that i just started back on it, i'm experiencing the usual side effects when starting(tiredness, nausea, constipation, flucuations in mood and appetite, sweating).",1 +the anger is just not there.,0 +shall I continue?,0 +"It helped anxiety slightly, but made my depression worse in my eyes.",0 +"No real mood change, but decision making became a lot easier.",0 +"When I start a 'new' 30 day batch of pills, I go through minor side effects for a few days.",1 +I've also lost about 30lbs 240 down to 210lbs (Not that I complaining on that one).,1 +Buy something new even if its just a pair of underwear.,0 +"This is one strange, bad drug.",0 +The only side effect that's really concerned me is the sexual one.,1 +Hang in there and don't give up!,0 +I will give it time.,0 +"finally attributing to lexapro, atleast at this dosage/ Very apathetic and have gained 20lbs easily.",1 +I take effexor xr 75mg daily - truely do not know if I still need it.,0 +"Stomach problems early on: bloating, nausea, constipation.",1 +No thoughts of suicide just deeper depression.,1 +My doctor and I decided to stop taking it.,0 +Suicidality increased dramatically in the first three weeks.,1 +I have discontinued my daily 10 mg dose to see if I can lose the weight.,0 +"For a week, I had horrible suicidal thoughts and mood swings, which eventually went away.",1 +"But these were mostly the side effects, and real improvement in my depression didn't appear for the suggested two weeks.",1 +"loss of libido, drowsiness.",1 +"The first day was great, no side effects whatsoever.",0 +I began with ten and moved to twenty after a month.,0 +My depression is not serious so it looks like I will have to go down a more natural path to help myself.,0 +"After discussing this drug at great length with my Pdoc, reviewing the research, looking at brain scans etc, we decided this was my best option for managing PTSD symptoms associated with childhood s*xual abuse.",0 +"I didn't take Lexapro long enough to evaluate it for its intended purpose, because I found the sexual side effects intolerable.",1 +But it all went away eventually and I started feeling great.,0 +Six hours after my first small (25mg) dose I had diarrhea.,1 +the 4th week I went from 30mg daily to 30mg every other day.,0 +The last straw was feeling hot all of the time.,1 +But it seems less effective in doing so lately.,0 +"I have thick long dark hair and am devastated, Horrible drug.",0 +"Moderate to severe dry mouth and dry eyes, occasional constipation or gastric symptoms.",1 +You really have to figure out what the right time of day is to take it.,0 +"Unfortunately, the weight gain and sex drive issue is driving me crazy, and I am considering switching to another drug because of this, but it appears that the other SSRIs have the same issues.",1 +"It helps me immensely, and the side affects are tolerable, as long as i don't provoke them by missing a dose.",1 +During the holidays I increase to 225) I don't get the withdrawal symptoms with this doseage change.,0 +"Nausea is pretty much gone, and my sleep pattern seems to be normalizing now.",1 +I experience frequent headaches as well as insomnia-which has led to a mild addiction to sleeping aids.,1 +I would hate to stop the cymbalta but have gone up 3 pant sizes!,1 +"I will say that withdrawal from Zoloft (or any SSRI) is a very unpleasant experience: severe mental confusion, and objects in your peripheral vision seem to dance about, wheel and lurch unexpectedly (not unlike the ""tracers"" of LSD).",0 +"Confusion is really bad, lack of concentration is very bad.",1 +Just started taking it a few days ago.,0 +We were supposed to get married next month.,0 +I was taken off Zoloft and put on Seroquel.,0 +Now I have terrible acne and infected cysts under one arm and might go off it all together to see if connected.,1 +My family and friends have all noticed how happier I am.,0 +"I got the ""brain zaps"" that other people have mentioned.",1 +"My depression mostly manifested in an inability to start new projects, rather than any feelings of sadness.",0 +It really helped my OCD.,0 +"I was given samples today and took one dose before coming to this site, where I learned that insomnia and decreased libido are serious side effects for many people; these are already major, major issues for me, By now, the first feelings of ""tightness"" in my head, dry mouth, and a little bit of jitters have begun.",1 +"Increased sweatiness, extremely oily skin and acne, weight gain, strange dreams, alternating insomnia and then fatigue, and constipation.",1 +I HATE WELLBUTRIN,0 +Felt almost euphoria going off it.,0 +"I've tried so many, However, I'm ADDICTED I feel.",0 +"when i would find insects and spiders in the house, i would kill them.",0 +"I cannot think, spell, or follow through on simple tasks.",0 +I get fewer tension headaches.,0 +"No feelings at all, happy sad, nothing.",1 +"I felt out of control, & disorientated.",1 +It has caused me to be severely fatigued with flu-like symptoms that came on about 24 hours after beginning this drug.,1 +"I thought there was something seriously wrong with mine, so I'm glad to know it is a side effect and not something else.",1 +"I feel with feelings (not ""numbed""), can cry, laugh and enjoy life.",0 +"After other patients' ratings and experiences, I learned about Trazadone, I started to sleep, complete with vivid detailed dreams.",0 +I've found that the side effects are tolerable in exchange for the remarkably stable feeling I have and the absence of any depression or suicidal thoughts.,0 +"I dont have fits of rage anymore, I am calm when things happen and that way I deal with them better.",0 +Did not work at all.,0 +It DID help combat fatigue.,0 +"The risks of such dangerous and hidden physiological side effects are in NO WAY worth the potential positive effects of so-called subjective ""mental stability"" which is merely illusory and masks the hidden danger.",1 +"sick of losing track of what I wanted to say, feeling of numbness, the constant need to sleep.",1 +"Difficulty reaching orgasm, wierd dreams, weight gain.",1 +I also gained like 7lb while on zoloft.,1 +I have a subtle ringing in my ears.,1 +I only take it now when I am having a particularly BAD day (suicidal).,0 +"Even with all this I function normally & I am self employed, which is extremely stressful.",0 +but it made me feel bad and i was scared to continue.,0 +i experienced all these symptoms after just one 10mg pill and still sufering the side effects two weeks later.,1 +"Insomnia, tension, somnolence, loss of memory, jaw movements.",1 +Emotionally much better and able to function but getting depressed about the side effects.,1 +"Now, it's an incredible change; I feel like I'm a *person* again.",0 +- DO NOT STOP COLD TURKEY.,0 +"Dry Mouth, chronic forgetfulness, a mental 'haze', it feels like I am peeing every liquid out of my body.",1 +"And there is a chance that it will give you PSSD, which as the name suggests persists even after you stop taking the drug, Just google 'PSSD' and you'll see what I mean, So please: NEVER take this drug, not even one tablet.",1 +I also have the worst headaches and while I have the headaches my right eye is blurry.,1 +"Initial weight gain, but have since lost it.",1 +I was also missing meetings!,1 +"And also sometimes I just can't sleep, I don't feel tired at bedtime (even though I was tired an hour before).",1 +These effects go away in 1-3 days.,1 +"I asked my phamacist, & he said it should subside.",0 +"Was bedridden that day, Didn't take another tab but still feeling side effects a day later.",1 +all subsided within a week.,0 +"Looked like I could have been in ""Night of the Living Dead"", Never, never, never again.",0 +"I was on a very low dose, so I'm not sure if the fatigue and brain fog was due to the drug or the depression that proceeded it, HOWEVER, I had experienced TERRIBLE withdrawal when coming off the drug. (These information are findings, just this )",0 +"I insisted that 30mg was working wonders, and he reluctantly prescribed a 2 week course at 30mg Well, that's where I've remained for 3 months now.",0 +changed my life,0 +It might be worth use by others but it is very hard to stop taking it; not a plus.,0 +"Not addiction, just an alteration.",0 +"before i knew it, i was dependent on sleep meds, and was being prescribed tranquilizer type meds too .",0 +My meds cost about $800.00 all togther.,0 +It is now almost time for bed/my next dose and I still have that feeling in my head and slight headache.,1 +but withdrawal is a *bitch*.,0 +"I am on the low dose, 30mg daily.",0 +I guess that's because it's an effective anti-anxiety drug for me.,0 +Extreme anxiety attacks lasting for 3 full days and nights .,1 +This is the only SSRI that didn't give me gastric side effects.,0 +"Brief headache, increased sweating at night.",1 +"But I think there is a life cycle to taking it, maybe 5 years or so; when they increased it to 90mg (April 2012) my cognition got noticeably worse, fatigue got much worse, every side effect amplified",1 +I am suffering and should of not trusted the NP who prescribed the pills without first checking it out.,0 +"After about two weeks, the side effects settled down and I thought I was doing alright.",1 +Cymbalta seemed to deaden everything.,0 +Zoloft did help with my anxiety but the side effects were just to much to handle to the point that I would rather live with anxiety than to live with these ugly side effects.,1 +The counselling does wonders for me.,0 +"First week; high, Second week; good mood, headaches, chest pains; third week; break through depression and fatigue, fourth week; still very tired, Doctor upped dose from 10 to 20mg and now I'm dreadfully zombie like.",1 +I experience some drowsiness so I take it at night.,1 +Yawning A LOT.,1 +"Slight apathy and abscent-mindedness (I make lots of typos, etc).",1 +"As everyone knows, you have to give the drug about a month before you decide you might cycle off it; people who decide after a week that ""it's not for them"" are really not using the drug correctly.",0 +"I used to worry about everything, Problems don't seem so overwhelming.",0 +"so once I started, it only took a couple of weeks for my symptoms to calm down.",0 +"and if a dose is missed, wow, the dreams and pyschedelic 'views' the mind kicks out when eyes are closed are absolutely incredible, scary, affects you the next day, etc Who needs to go to the movies?",0 +Great drug!,0 +was very tried until I started taking concerta for add.,1 +Loss in appetite but i think it is going to work hopefully.,1 +I looked online to find at least 15 pages of withdrawal symptoms and over 30 pages to document the symptoms.,0 +"Made me have tremors, also made me feel like I wanted to crawl out of my skin.",1 +"Also, I'd like to add that I take heart medication for Heart Arythmia.",0 +"Vertigo,nauseated,skin crawls,severe headaches,crying spells,brain.",0 +"I have had all kinds of blood work done, and my tests are all normal, so I think it has to be the Effexor.",0 +"However, after a few months, I feel like all I want to do is drink.",1 +It's a great medicine once you get past the side effects!,0 +"Withdrawal was very, very difficult as many here state.",0 +"it's too dangerous, unless you have a doctor who will listen to you.",0 +For quality of life & my family i have decided to stay on it .,0 +Which can be a side effect of Cymbalta.,1 +"Sometimes when talking, I would stutter, and forget what I was saying.",1 +"I'm also on a relatively low dose with an average of 7,5MG/day.",0 +Went into a horrible depression shortly after stopping completely.,0 +I use this in combination with a small dose of Elavil and/or Trazedone to improve sleep (my sleep quality is poor with or without Zolot).,0 +No noticible side effects.,0 +"Also, about a 5 lb.",0 +"EXTREME lower leg & foot swelling, EXTREMELY itchy red rash lower extremities, profuse sweating, zombie state - extreme sleepiness shortly after taking and without any warning, lower extremity cramping, mouth sores, extreme weight gain, NO libedo what so ever, very bad memory.",1 +"headache on left side of head, left eye pain, numbness in face hand s arms legs, stiff neck and shoulders, vivid dreams,no sex drive.",1 +"Helped the depression only quit taking it because it affected my job (the sleepiness) think it may have helped the anxiety, I remember I was able to cut back on my dosage of xanax.",1 +Sweaty hands & feet Euphoria.,1 +"Nauseated the first week, then went away.",1 +Sleepiness and bouts of sleeplessness extreme lethargy developed diabetes type II high blood pressure and was hospitalized twice when trying to ween off of the drug.,1 +"flatulence, loose stools, and a really good reaction in evey day life.",1 +Called in sick.,1 +"Horrible isomnia, felt like I was in a fog.",1 +"My inability to think correctly lead me to get frustrated when I tried to get work done, and also lead me to being more rash with decision making.",1 +monotone in emotion.,1 +have never cut myself before I started taking Zoloft.,1 +"Catatonic, no emotion.",1 +The side effects have been very minor for me.,1 +After a year or so on this I had more spinal problems and related nerve pain.,1 +"When I first tried Cymbalta, I stopped after a week or two because I was so angry, I was biting off everyone's head.",1 +"Increased anxiety, SERIOUS constipation (for which even laxatives and epsom salts barely helped) and stomach cramping, my stomach hurt all the time, disturbed sleep and trouble falling asleep, fatigue, headaches.",1 +Severe night sweats.,1 +"Exhaustion, horrible anxiety, crying, unable to work or function.",1 +"I wake up a lot in the morning with my jaw feeling tired and aching, and it never even occured to me that it may have been because of the Effexor (until i came upon this site!).",1 +"can't stop yawning, wake up in the middle of the night, am so tired during the day.",1 +"Well, this lasted for 7 full days and I stay home with my 3 small children, it wasn't working!",1 +"Over a 10 yr period I have gained 70 lbs Other than that, it helped me with my anxiety attacks and depression.",1 +Doc put me on something for that and it worked during the day but I wake up nightly with soaked clothes.,1 +"I have to take Adderall XR in combination with the Effexor just to keep me awake during the day because if i don't, i absolutely can't function; I will literally just sleep all the time, to the point where it truly can disrupt my life at times.",1 +"The first 2 months it seemed to be fine, then the terrible night sweats came,the headaches,dizziness, out of sorts feeling came.",1 +I have only been on Zoloft for 2 days and I notice slight changes.,0 +"If I let myself get hungry, then I get nauseated.",1 +The last 4 days I have sleep 8-10 hours and then wanted to lay in bed another 4) I can't take the side effects and go to work.,1 +I feel full much sooner when eating than I used to.,1 +"Consequently, I was placed on anti-depressants to counteract the side effects of pain medication, and also because the constant pain sucked the life out of me.",0 +My stomach is a wreck.,1 +First two weeks were a nightmare.,0 +I do not understand how something this bad can be acceptable but many pain medications are not.,0 +"Within a few days of taking it, horrible anxiety.",1 +Totally removes sex drive.,1 +I would not recommend cymbalta to anyone.,0 +But all in all it wasn't too bad.,0 +"Irritability, sleeplessness.",1 +"My mind is now clear, my thoughts are in check, and I no longer have post partum.",0 +Anyone please email me ideas.,0 +None have helped for long but none have hurt her before.,0 +Sexual side effects.,1 +"vivid nightmares, sweats, higher anxiety levels, memory problems, concentration problems, teeth grinding and clenching of jaws.",1 +"The main issue I have is that over a period of several months, it loses its effectiveness.",0 +"unable to recall names etcdiarrhea, delayed processing,insomnia,late day fatigue.",1 +"Overall I am delighted with the difference Zoloft has made for me in letting me lead a normal life, and I consider a bit of nausea to be quite worth it.",1 +Having to up my dosage twice.,0 +"I'm a stay-at-hme-dad of toddler & infant and am glad that I'm not depressed with anxiety while raising them, That said, I can't wait until I'm ready to stop, WEIGHT GAIN: 6,7%",1 +Virtually impossible to ejaculate. ,1 +dont stop taking it all at once because you get really dizzy and feel sick and its not fun.,0 +Then I was okay for a few days.,0 +Is there no drug that will help us?,0 +"Had 2 panick attacks while on Zoloft, quit taking the drug and have not had any more attacks, but now I am dealing with the fear of when/where the next one will take place.",1 +"I switched from Cymbalta to Lexapro and after approximately 30 days, I began feeling very bad.",1 +"Plus, I'm better able to remember my dreams after I wake up.",0 +Also my sex drive went from brooooom brooom to put put if any.,1 +1 brain zapper after 10 months during a migraine headache which was a very sharp pain that radiated from my head and downmy back that was shocking and lasted a total of maybe 1 second.,1 +And he was right!,0 +"It has been powerful at curing anxiety, depression and mental clutter.",0 +Total sexual dysfunction which has continued for six months with no improvement after stopping the medication.,1 +"It's not like a sore stomach, but it feels like your abdomen is tensed up, which I initially mistook for a sign of additional anxiety, However, according to my doctor this tension in the stomach area is purely a chemical reaction to the medicine and not connected with an emotional state.",1 +"2 months ago, started on EFFEXOR XR 75mg depression kept getting worse moved up to 150mg, more stable, dont cry any more.",0 +Now I don't wake up until morning but I am soaked with sweat.,1 +I worry about the side effects.,0 +Cymbalta is great.,0 +"After being in a mental hospital for 3 days, was put on several different antidepressants which didn't work.",0 +"Racing brain, not sleep well, dry mouth, sexual disfunction, bad memory, bad dreams, endless energy.",1 +She did not want to leave me alone for fear of me causing myself harm.,0 +"Yawning at first, no appetite, fatigue, no sex drive.",1 +It helpped me to feel the appropriate feelings for a situation instead of the all consuming feelings of doom and self loathing.,0 +headache.,1 +"May be a good drug, but I can't take it anymore because of the sedation and stomach problems.",1 +I'm skeptical of some online reviews of withdrawal & SE's.,0 +"Anti-depressants became available when I was in my twenties, and I was on and off them for years.",0 +Able to deal with anxiety better.,0 +I feel much more alive.,0 +"Weight gain, tiredness, completely killed sex drive.",1 +Day three I was very anxious.,0 +"but quickly fell back to sleep, Day 3: great!",0 +I have gained weight that I have been unable to lose with diet/exercise.,1 +"Avoid at all costs, even if your quack might want to ruin your life with it.",0 +"MAJOR head pressure, dizziness, moodiness, agitation, no patience, insomnia, suicidal thoughts.",1 +Any suggestions?,0 +Wow.,0 +"Insomnia, decreased appetite (though that's a good thing in my case; the depression had me overeating).",1 +"vivid dreams, night sweats, loss of appetite, nausea, etc After a few months, the only problem I've really had is headaches.",1 +I was always thin and fit before.,0 +"Over the course of months I gained 20 pounds, tried to get off the meds 3 times had had such awful side effects, electric shocks through body, blurred vision, major headaches.",1 +"Zoloft let me still feel sad or angry at times, it didn't make me a complacent, happy person.",0 +"I have relief from major depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts are becoming fewer, I also take 200 mg of zoloft which I find to be less affective compared to cymbalta.",0 +"GAS,vivid dreams, some muscle twitches.",1 +My only complaint is that so much of my life was so subtly but truly less fulfilling than it could have been.,0 +However I do have some negative side effects.,0 +Episodes of ravenous hunger and loss of appetite.,1 +in conclusion there are better drugs out there to treat depression.,0 +Slowly trying to get out of the hole with no med except occasional xanax.,0 +"I was VERY depressed, Also, I was working full-time and pumping milk at work so that he could be exclusively fed breast milk for 4 months, Well, I may as well have not taken anything as it did not help at all.",0 +"insomnia, vivid dreams, syncope, a detached from the body feeling, confusion, restlessness, shaky, trembling.",1 +One of the worst meds I've been on. ,0 +"Yawning, constipation (short term).",1 +"Drastic drop in libido, profuse sweating, decreased appetite.",1 +If the Zoloft stops 'working' then increase your dose before trying something else and risk having an adverse reaction like I did.,0 +I tried Cymbalta at difference dosages and my general impression when I was taking 30mg and later 60mg day was that Cymbalta helped a great deal for my anxiety- I just felt in control again and stupid chores didn't seem like such a big deal anymore.,0 +"Zoloft did nothing for my depression, just made me crave alcohol ( I was not a heavy drinker before or after taking Zoloft).",1 +"I just felt so weird all the time, I HAD to come off it.",1 +"Loss of appetite, and more thirsty than usual.",1 +Wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy except to the Doctor who recommended this drug!,0 +Been taking it for the last month and I can tell it is helping but the side effects are awful!,1 +"To define best per my daughter, it's like getting off crack coccaine!",0 +I've taken one medication after another for 20 years.,0 +IT IS HORRIBLE!,0 +Extreme sleepiness in the evenings during the first week - no problem now.,1 +Never experienced a panic attack until AFTER taking only 4 doses (25 mg.) of this medication.,1 +Bad vivid dreams.,1 +"The only side effect I have noticed is it makes me sleepy, so I take it at night and sleep well.",1 +"The 2nd time we went to the beach (1 hr, 45 mins away) we spent the night.",0 + I have taken effexor Xr 450mgs for over 7 years.,0 +What a difference!,0 +Exausted too!,1 +am tired all day long/low energy.,1 +"The best comparison I can make about the dreams, is if a ""normal"" dream is like watching a dvd on a 13 inch screen, then a dream on Cymbalta is like going to see an IMAX movie The dreams aren't bad though.",0 +And I can remember every detail of them when i wake up in the morning.,1 +Got nothing done all day.,1 +"jaw clenching at night, teeth grinding, nausea, constipation, food cravings, weight gain, total loss of sex drive, inability to O, insomnia, loss of taste.",1 +Upset stomach and no appetite.,1 +have had continuous diarrhea since I started taking this pill.,1 +"Great stuff, after 10 years I think I have found my medicine!",0 +"As for depression, I took prozac years ago, and found that much more effective in eliminating my depression.",0 +"After about the first 2 weeks, my moods leveled out, I felt mentally numb.",1 +All side effects went away within 3 weeks.,1 +"After following up with the doctor who prescribed the lexapro, he did not discontinue the drug, just decreased it to 5mg per day.",0 +Dialated pupils.,1 +"On 120 mg 11 months later, depression has lifted and general anxiety has decreased overall, but I feel like I am always 'shaking' and 'cannot breathe', and I cannot sleep any longer than 3 hours per night.",1 +Headaches & mild nausea for a few hours after taking it for the first few weeks.,1 +"These drugs really change a person, from their mood, to their personality.",1 +"Excessive sweating, nervousness, sick stomach, zombie-like feeling, tiredness, etc.",1 +"Once you eat a bite, you don't feel full and crave SUGAR.",1 +Often can't stop yawning about 3:30 PM daily for about an hour.,1 +became pregnant surprisingly (by natural means).,0 +loss of friends and made my relationship with family hard.,1 +"I have gained 10 lbs in 1 month, and am terrified it will continue.",1 +"Some initial weight gain, but has now setteled down and am experiencing the reverse.",1 +I have been on Cymbalta for about 2 months now and I feel like I am losing my mind.,1 +Had hysterectomy due to cervical cancer in Dec 04 and stopped taking my progesterone.,0 +I've taken all the other anti-depressants over many years and couldn't stand the side effects.,1 +"I've gotten back to exercising and enjoying my life in ways that I haven't been able to for years, Thank you!",0 +It has really helped for symptoms of depression and with less side affects than I was afraid of.,1 +"I was able before last night to take it at bedtime and fall asleep, last night I had to take a tiny bit, less than 1/8 ativan to get to sleep.",0 +have noticed a bit of sexual delay.,1 +"It took a couple of weeks for me to realize much of a difference with Zoloft, but it has, without a doubt, saved my life.",0 +Bad Drug!,0 +"Alcohol-related blackouts, super-intense dreams, sleepy, nervous.",1 +"The last week or two I've been feeling nausea all day, mostly due to the dizziness, Everyone's different though, and you should probably give it a try, others are having luck.",1 +"Nausea, Blurred Vision, 3 to 5 hours sleep, Suicidal Thoughts.",1 +little stomach upset.,1 +"Doc intially placed me on Welbutrine, which made me un-motived and essentially a disinterested by-stander in the story that is my life.",0 +being sick all the time .,1 +Effexor is the first antidepressant that has really helped.,0 +"Called in sick to work because I was feeling dizzy and nauseous, sweaty hands, decreased appetite, numbness in the back of my head, sore neck, keep feeling like I need to stretch, feeling disconnected, at the same time got a body buzz and an overall calm feeling.",1 +"I have a very high tolerance for drugs, and I have been on meds almost consistently for thirteen years, trying almost everything possible.",0 +I've become more depressed about this and cry every day.,1 +lexapro is a great drug.,0 +"Too bad about sex, alcohol and tobacco, I enjoyed them all ,but Effexor has really helped me.",1 +"My libido also just did a disappearance act, which I simply couldn't handle.",1 +"med helped for a while, but I gained about 30lbs in the midsection.",1 +I feel great otherwise until I hit this low.,0 +"Weight Loss, initially nausea, but the nausea subsided after ~3 weeks. ",1 +"its all I want to do, however, unable to rest for more than an hour at a time.",1 +Difficulty Urinating; Very Tired and Listless All Day After Taking Dose; Nausea; No Taste For Food; General Apathy.,1 +The side effects were tough to take and it no longer seemed like a good tradeoff.,1 +There is power in numbers and all our prayers can make a difference.,0 +My weight issues have almost COMPLETELY disappeared (within weeks I saw differences) and the urge to pull my hair has dwindled.,0 +Chronic Discontinuation Syndrome.,0 +"Thankfully, it took care of insomnia from the very first night.",0 +"pupils were hugely enlarged, clenching my jaw alot, suffering alot of dreaming i never use to.",1 +"My condition deteriorated rapidly, at which point my doctor wanted to increase the dosage further.",0 +I'm going to stick it out and give this new drug several months before making a decision.,0 +"Today is Sunday, 11-9-08) In the past three nights, I have been experiencing insomnia.",1 +major weight gain and constipation.,1 +"After finding this blog, I've been cutting my pills in half for the past 3 nites.",0 +to the point of gaining 40lbs which is also not lovely.,1 +Shortly after taking this medication I would get severe stomach cramps that would last a few minutes.,1 +Helped with depression after postpartum but I am considering trying to stop due to severe night sweats & cost of Lexapro.,1 +Anxiety and social anxiety virtually gone.,0 +Good luck to you all!,0 +"Teeth Clenching, Insomnia at night and exhaustion durring the day.",1 +"I went to sleep, then woke up a couple hours later feeling extremely nauseous.",1 +Within two weeks i felt much better.,0 +I HAVE NEVER felt so awful as I do today.,1 +Needing a nap every afternoon just isn't OK for me.,1 +"Suffered from sporadic depression/anxiety for over 20 years, and had been in and out of counseling for about 18 years before trying lexapro.",0 +The depression is so terrible that I am very keen to give Lexapro a fair try.,0 +"Initially; dizziness, brain zaps, weight loss, nausea.",1 +Had lost 50lbs on my own dieting prior to meds and now gained back 30lbs which adds to my feeling down.,1 +"On the down side, I feel as if I'm in a fog.",1 +I struggled with the decision to take it because I was so worried that it may harm him because it does pass into breast milk in tiny amounts.,1 +(and leave this forum to those who want to help themselves & others),0 +"I read all the side effects and was reluctant to start it, but knew that I needed to take something in order to function in life.",0 +The difference was like night and day with feeling like i had a purpose in the world and motivation and joy.,0 +I've had a completely positive experience on this drug.,0 +"dry mouth(first couple days), tremors(spasms), sleeping more, loss of energy, sweating, lost interest in sex because had trouble climaxing.",1 +"I have tried a lot of different depression meds, am taking Lortab for pain 2xs a day.",0 +If I increase to 100 I have sexual side effects immediate.,1 +what a roller coaster that was .,0 +"Constant yawning,severe tremors,headache, lost all sex drive the first day, couldn't orgasm if I tried, terrible jaw clenching, helped somewhat with social anxiety, but general anxiety got worse, panic attacks increased,.",1 +"Though the literature says these are rare side effects, it happens.",0 +lexapro worked well.,0 +never take this drug!,0 +"Also, I am still experiencing some major depressive episodes and invasive thoughts, which makes me question if the cure is worse than the disease.",1 +I do feel bursts of happiness throughout the day.,0 +I read that taking benadryl or clariton helps with the withdrawal - and it really does.,0 +Since being on Lexapro my depression has lifted.,0 +"I eventually struggled with whether it was withdrawal or the original problem, but then at my lowest point I decided to take 12.5mg and within two hours EVERY problem went away.",0 +"Went to see my Doc, was put on Lexapro 10mg.",0 +THIS MEDICATION IS GOD AWFUL AND IT SHOULD BE BANNED. ,0 +"The decreased libido is a major problem because I truly love my husband of 14 years, but I have a VERY difficult time being interested on an intimate level.",1 +I have people who work for me that have seen a change and don't know I am taking an anti-depressant.,0 +"The fatigue and sleepiness is a pain, but am willing to put up with it as it beats not being able to get out of bed.",1 +I would sit down to study for class and forget what I just read.,1 +I do have lethargy.,1 +I don't get as upset about things nor do I worry myself crazy anymore.,0 +Bad sexual side effects.,1 +The Lexapro seems to have made it possible to take Wellbutrin without the negative side effects.,0 +I literally was out of control.,0 +I always seem to want more.,0 +"I'm no doctor, but it seems like there are some combinations that would explain much of the issues above.",0 +"Major weight gain, 30 lbs in 2 years.",1 +Seems like I'm trapped in a whole new kind of hell.,0 +"I had pretty mild side effects at first, nothing severe enough to make me want to quit taking it and nothing out of the ordinary.",1 +"Memory loss, sweating.",1 +Sweating has definitely increased as well as heat sensitivity.,1 +it helps w/the depression but I still feel pretty lousy - just bounce back a little easier,0 +"No negative sexual side effects, no brain zaps - but I consistently take it.",0 +in the last 6 months I feel like Zoloft has stopped working.,0 +"I would look in the mirror and think ""what is wrong with me!""",0 +There is light at the end of the tunnel.,0 +"), but had to stop this drug after only a few days.",0 +Needed some more help Doctor added Wellbutrin last year.,0 +On the plus side my memory did improve alot ( im ADD) Now im on Lexapro lets see how this goes. ,0 +I also have difficulty remembering things and feel scatterbrained.,1 +During the first few months of taking Cymbalta (30 mg) I used to wake up at least 2X during the night to change pajamas & sheets/bedding due to intense sweating & was losing lots of sleep.,1 +"Yesterday, Christmas day began with a crying episode that I could NOT shake for several hours that included hopelessness in a major way.",0 +It did give me a sense of well-being,0 +"I DID NOT EVEN SUSPECT THAT IT WAS ONE OF MY MEDS UNTIL MY DAUGHTER, WHO IS A REGISTERED NURSE, SUGGESTED THAT I LOOK UP ALL OF THEM & SEE WHAT THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE.",0 +No massive weight gain yet.,0 +I was wondering if anyone else has experienced the bruising and terrible joint pain.,1 +"After waking up, I had severe nausea & a bad headache, Off & on that evening I was ""spacey"" and moved very slow, but I knew what was going on, This morning, I did not hear my alarm go off for work, woke up 1 1/2 later, called boss, told her what was going on & was only late 30 min.",1 +"I felt uncomfortable in my own body for weeks,but not enough to quit.",1 +I put a car in to a tree and the 2nd one in a telegraph pole.,0 +The long dark wet winters don't bother me.,0 +Withdrawal was DANTE'S INFERNO!,0 +started at 10 then 20) looking forward to future increased effects and hopefully some weight loss and HOPEFULLY the swallowing thing will go away.,0 +"I had terrible anxiety the whole time, the worst kind of anxiety I've ever experienced.",1 +"I was shaking, I had tremors, my mind was confused, I had no logic to my scientific mind.",0 +I have quit cold turkey about 3 weeks ago hoping some sex drive will come back.,0 +"increased migraine and headaches frequency (went from very rarely to frequently), vomitting, nausea, initially constipated then just diarrhea, disturbing twitching while trying to fall asleep, not the usual twitching, very dry mouth, loss of libido ( got better when I decreased from 150mg to 100 mg after 3 months), also have occasional yawnitis as I call it which was worse in the beginning, also had terrible motion sickness I have never had before from flying, alot of dizziness if I forget my dose after just an hour since I decreased to 100mg a month ago, irritability, fall asleep at work sometimes lasting all day, somewhat better after taking the medicine at noontime, waking up in the middle of the night is completely resolved since taking the meds at noontime rather than before bed, definitely I am not losing weight, had panic attacks and that weird tingly feeling for first 2 weeks but these went away.",1 +Numbness diminished after stopping the medicine & starting a new anti-depressant.,0 +I had no desire or energy to do anything but sleep.,1 +Highly reconsider taking this med if you have not already done so.,0 +"I have not have a depressed moment since I've been on it, approx, 8 months.",0 +"yawning, fatigue, loss of libido/ability to ejaculate, loss of emotional range.",1 +caused muscle tension - especially painful jaw clenching - took myself off. ,1 +"Crazy dreams and visions, slight insomnia, my teeth are killing me from grinding them and I guess that caused my headaches.",1 +"Insomnia, dizzy, anxiety, dry mouth, muscle aches, lack of concentraction, memory loss, whole body is numb.",1 +"The longer I'm asleep, the wilder the dreams-like one continuous dream that gets more detailed and upsetting.",0 +The 2nd year is when all the other symptoms started.,0 +Days four and five were hell.,0 +I basically did the same thing on a day where I had a big commitment to my kids and knew I couldn't miss it.,0 +This medication has not been at all pleasant and when put in hospital the doctors increased my dose to 150mg and this was terrible.,0 +"After another year of no antidepressants I was prescribed Celexa, which works much better for me.",0 +"Depression also runs in my family,my grandmother ,84, Has finally taken anti depressants.",0 +However missing a dose can bring on a huge change immediately.,0 +It kept me up all night and I would sleep all day.,1 +"The second week, I almost killed myself.",0 +"no desire to have sex, cannot orgasim, currently hurts to have sex.",1 +Zoloft is amazing for me.,0 +Loss of memory.,1 +"Obnoxious behaviour, Increased talkativeness, nausea, diarrhea, headaches, insomnia, flatulence, depression, moderate weight gain, unable to achieve orgasm, increased sexual pleasure.",1 +Increased memory of dreams (waking during REM cycle) and thus constant tiredness.,1 +The only side effect that I have now is extremely realistic/vivid dreams.,1 +"It has a half life of 5hours, that's why you feel so crummy after missing one dose.",0 +"My anxiety is much calmer, although still present.",0 +"Started on Effexor first hated the way it made me feel, Dr. switched me to lexapro without getting the effexor out of my system so I thought side effects were from the Lexapro and I quit.",0 +So it doesn't keep me up like the doc told me it would.,0 +This is the 5th day of my trial with Cymbalta.,0 +"finding it really hard to cope on this, have to take something to make me sleep, force myself to eat.",1 +it made me calm.,0 +"jittery, sexual effects.",1 +It made my RLS 4xs worse.,1 +"It really pisses me off because if you spend most of your adult life married to someone who could care less if you cum or not, and then meet and marry a man that refuses to cum until you do its really bad for both of us.",0 +I'd still recommend at least giving it a shot.,0 +It made me crazy.,1 +I started taking AmbienCR to sleep but at 12.5mg it only helped for 4 hours.,0 +Few months later after effexor was out of my system I tried lexapro again first at 5mg and then went up to 10mg.,0 +"Mild withdrawal symptoms are dizziness, irritability, and upset stomach.",0 +Bummer!,0 +Only long term effect is that I can't cry - literally.,1 +I should have been in the hospital at least twice.,0 +I love this site.,0 +"my arms felt like needles are poking them, Felt like a knife in my shoulder, I got chills easily, felt like my legs were not getting enough circulation, it felt like my blood had carbonation in it!",1 +"If I get depressed now, it is a legitimate reason.",0 +"some dizziness, nausea, tiredness.",1 +some sleepiness.,1 +"I had an increase in Libido along with an inability to orgasm, Extremely Frustrating.",1 +On top of that I cant sleep without a trazdone or ambien pill and when I get home from work,1 +"took l0 mg lexapro in combination with .5 klonpin 3x a day, eliminated a cycle of depression and anxiety I had for 2 yrs.",0 +"Severe cotton mouth, mood was exceptionally elevated (too elevated) until it tapered off, Disturbing, lucid dream for about 6 weeks.",1 +"My anxiety is worse than before, and I've been getting more and more dizzy by the week .",1 +I feel normal around people for the first time in my life.,0 +I was on this drug a little over a year and in that time I continued to get worse contemplating suicide more than once.,1 +"It helped keep migraines at bay and I had tolerable, minimal side effects.",1 +"In addition, I am taking 300mg of wellbutrin, soon 450mg, and I am feeling sexual again.",0 +I had to take a heart burn relief medication each day I took Lexapro.,1 +Everyone imaginable.,0 +Zoloft is the way to go.,0 +"Severe insomnia,weight fluctuations.",1 +Weight Gain.,1 +I have found that this has helped my depression and anxiety very much.,0 +"All of the short term side effects only lasted for the first 2 months,(sexual and weight problems manifested itself over the long term) except for the obnoxious behaviour and increased talkativeness.",1 +Most annoying side effect is delayed orgasm and sex drive reduction.,1 +Less anxiety and depression but less life.,1 +Have trouble rating Zoloft as I have not been on it long enough to really know yet.,0 +"I have been on effexor for 11 years and it has help me funtion and provide for my family, but I have been really tired and have to contantly fight weight gain.",1 +I have been on wellbutrin before and the side effects were bad but did wear off after about a mont,0 +I have been on Cymbalta for almost a week and have been in bed the entire time.,1 +"Sleepy, lethargic, zombie like state.",1 +I also had a sudden hearing loss experience and am now totally deaf in my left ear; it is sensioneural and will never return.,1 +I experienced weight gain and loss of sex drive.,1 +"loss of sex drive and ablity,dont care about anything.",1 +I am so miserable at this stage that I'm worse off than when I started taking this by far.,0 +Too early to tell.,0 +Worst medication to date for me.,0 +"Now, despite following a healthy, moderate diet and regularly exercising, my body will not lose weight.",0 +"Also, oddly my cholesterol has jumped up over 50 points in the last year.",1 +"Also, if I'm on them forever, that could be bad news if I decide to have kids (in the way future).",0 +"I won't off this medicine due to the horrible side effects, withdrawl symptoms and weight gain.",1 +only problem i can isolate during normal usage is blurred vision.,1 +I'm more upbeat and can think more clearly.,0 +It all finally came to a hilt after not taking 2 doses under doctors orders New Years Eve because I knew I would be drinking.,0 +"The other night I had a very strange dream that my husband was married to my mother and he was 'dating' me, although he wasn't supposed to.",0 +"I am only on 50mg but my insomnia is gone, my anxiety is under control, and I get depressed less often.",0 +I started taking cymbalta 2 months ago.,0 +I have noticed that I have a little more energy and more mental clarity in the short time that I have been on Cymbalta.,0 +Amd now she's happier than ever.,0 +"emotionless, Zombie effect.",1 +"The first 3 days or so, I thought I was in the twilight zone.",1 +I am constantly forgetting words and always feel like I'm in a fog.,1 +"I have been on so many of the SSRI's that is Celexa, Prozac, Serzone, Lexapro, Wellbutrin XR, Remeron.",0 +"insomnia, low sex drive, trouble reaching orgasm, euphoria (not bad at all), agitation, drowsiness.",1 +"ALmost shakey, or tremors, but they are ""below the surface"" rather than something visible.",1 +"Crying, brain zaps, nausea, vomiting, serious mood swings,ect.",1 +"I seriously thought I had chronic fatigue syndrome, but after reading about other people's experiences, now I suspect it's the Lexapro.",0 +I have stopped it and now on day 3 migraine is still with me.,1 +I don't get mad as easily as I did at my kids.,0 +"In 3 weeks it was gone, as was my anger and inability to focus.",0 +"I'd like to think of it as a ""last resort"" type.",0 +I just keep bleeding and Noone knows why.,0 +This drug may work too well in allowing me to see the world for what it really is almost in an alienating way.,0 +"inability to reach orgasm, but only for a short time when first startted and when upped dosage, weird ""brain zaps"" others mention and vivid dreams when miss a dose, inability to get off it due to withdrawl symptoms - physical and emotional, but I was only trying to get off to start another antidepressant, so didn't really have to get off it.",1 +Anyone else take lexapro with a klonopin combo that seems to have funny side effects?,0 +"I would encourage you to speak to your doctor right away if some of those really bad side effects occur - this drug is so new, there's no long term studies on it, so we don't know how it reacts with different symptoms, different physiology.",0 +"Not to mention the acid reflux, having bowel movements 5 times in the morning,abdominal cramping, couldent eat, no appetite.",1 +Am definitely having difficulty sleeping but was able to wean off Xanax.,1 +First two weeks but disappeared shortly afterwards .,0 +"But I am so tired, all I want to do with my spare time is sleep and Now I am suffering severe anxiety daily as never before that I try to treat with Clonozpam.",1 +"I took this medication for a month before I started getting extreme suicidal feelings, which I had not had before taking it.",1 +"I don't see any correlation to this med and diarrea and I am not worried about the effects of ""going off it"" as I plan to ""stay on it"" as long as I feel this good.",0 +"Vastly increased moodiness, extreme levels of excess energy, minor hallucinations, irritability, reduced sex drive, lasting dissociative symptoms.",1 +no worries or anything.,0 +This is a difficult med.,0 +I will go back to taking it in the morning and see if it helps.,0 +This medication has turned my life around; I'd been suffering from moderate to severe depression for decades and was afraid to take antidepressents until my doctor convinced me to at least try Zoloft for a while.,0 +Thank God I was pregnant or I may NEVER have forced myself through to the other side!,0 +"Weight gain, HAIR LOSS, increased depression, fatigue, lethargy.",1 +"Night sweats, interrupted sleep most nights, seriously dry mouth when I wake up.",1 +Dr. s do not understand the crazy side effects of starting this class of drugs and often move patients too quickly thru increases.,0 +Also made me extremely angry.,1 +"Insomnia, dry mouth, constipation, nausea.",1 +Effexor was the drug that changed everything.,0 +Lack of care for anything important in my life.,1 +I had extreme anger and road rage.,1 +I would say try it.,0 +"Been off of it for eight months, now bigger, have high BP and pre-diabetes because of the weight gain.",1 +burning and diarrhea all nite.,1 +"night sweats, major mood swings and moment of over excitement combined with rudeness.",1 +"I couldn't talk without stuttering, was very confused, couldn't concentrate.",1 +"Side effects are way to extreme, E-mail me if you have experianced the same things.",1 +Very hard to take a deep breath like someone is squeezing my lungs.,1 +"I've never noticed any previous AntiDep's effect until well over a month (prozac, effexor, celexa and wellbutrin combo) and none of them has actually made me feel GOOD about myself.",0 +"The sweating is really bad, but i've found a great solution - aerosol deoderant!",1 +"Currently at 225, I am very agitated, dizzy, lightheaded, off balance, emotionless, and one week after I started taking Effexor XR, I saw obvious daily weight gain, bloated stomache constipation, etc And then the financial shock.",1 +"About 3 months ago,I began to have symptoms- not so much depression but of mood swings, severe irratibility & anger.",1 +"Please be careful if you are taking this, o",0 +"Headache, dry mouth, dizziness, chronic fatigue, increased appetite, stiffed jaw, decreased libido, weight gain, brain fog.",1 +Initially Zoloft was great.,0 +FLEE!,0 +"Lack of sex drive, no orgasms.",1 +I have no idea why.,0 +I feel like myself and don't get upset or angry as easily.,0 +Deep-end mania.,1 +Did not feel natural.,0 +"I was taking Ativan, Ambien, Atenolol and Lexapro for the anxiety and depression and have quit them all cold turkey.",0 +"i excercise ALOT & train really hard, sometimes 2x daily @ gym,i do dance & cheerleading also & im very active.",0 +at all.,0 +Loss of appetite and weight (5 lbs in a month).,1 +I consider the appetite supression/weight loss and anti-constipating effect to be *good* side effects!,1 +"sweating, not able to stay asleep through the night, dry skin and hair, constant licking my lips ( pill rolling) as its called, tingling body experience, ring in ears, headaches.",1 +PROBABLY PERMANENT!,0 +I feel like a junkie.,1 +"I suffer from both, and this is my second time on the drug.",0 +i also dident read anything in here about therapy while on anti-depressive meds.,0 +led to prescriptions for other meds .,0 +i generally became more optimistic and active.,0 +"anxiety, o",1 +"(It put me to sleep for an hour, then I would wake up and eat a little) Don't want to eat, had to force myself.",1 +This medication seems to work well when it came to my Pain.,0 +DO NOT TAKE CYMBALTA-it has the potential to ruin the very essence of who you are.,0 +I have never been on any type of AD before and feel that the doctor will give this pill to anyone who is feeling a little sad.,0 +"I feel somewhat more stable than when off of this type of medicine, but I am also so unhappy with the long term side effects.",1 +"Nausea (severe at times), occasional tremors, delayed orgasm, hot flashes.",1 +"I remember the first four days on the drug were weird: I felt jittery and a little elated, rather like the opening to a hallucinogenic drug.",1 +"It worked wonders the first time, but this time around I have been getting all of those symptoms.",1 +slight loss of libido.,1 +I have noticed decreased appetite and leg twitching (can't sit still).,1 +"However, the depression and moodiness quickly returned and my psychiatrist decided to try Cymbalta.",0 +Nausea.,1 +It has worked exceptionally well for my depression.,0 +I was just taken off EffexorXR after 2weeks because i had an allergic reaction to it.,0 +Some mental fogginess in school.,1 +God bless,0 +"Drowsy throughout the day, sleeping for a long time, weird dreams, heart palpitations, minor muscle spasms, lower libido, skipped periods often, heavy periods when I did get them, migraines, feeling slightly more aggressive, lowered mental capacity.",1 +"Reduced sex drive, 75% less ability to reach orgasm.",1 +My manic depression has driven to do things any normal person would never even think of doing and it seems as though I cannot live without the medicine.,0 +Doc said that should reverse within a month.,0 +"never noticed that before but since going back on Effexor, I do.",0 +"Felt a bit sluggish, but after a month or so on the 150mg dose, have overcome that side effect.",1 +"The depression took about for months after to come back, Not pleasant.",0 +"Nausea, weight loss in beginning.",1 +A week after the commencement of my treatment I took a razor blade and cut my wrists.,1 +slight weight gain.,1 +Also couldn't orgasm.,1 +"started out on 60mg, which was a way too high dosage to start out on- lay on my bed for 2 days staring at the ceiling, not being able to move; also experienced blurred vision, nausea, excessive sleepiness, yet inability to sleep - Was so paranoid after this episode that I didn't take it for a month again, but t my doctor recommended that I rather slowly get used to the drug, taking 30 mg every second day, and gradually increasing the dosage - Second time round the side effects in the first week were minimal and even quite pleasant- had so much energy that I could get by with 4 hours sleep.",1 +I started taking it at 100mg and then went on 50mg due to headaches I was also using endep 50mg for insomnia and pain.,1 +I was on Lexapro for 4yrs and it stopped working.,0 +not many at all!,0 +"insomnia, low libido, drowsiness, dry mouth.",1 +"The side effects got stronger and stronger as I felt brain fog, chronic fatigue and all those other side effects I mentioned on a daily basis.",1 +"Blurred vision, diarrhoea, nausea, heart burn, hyper/wired can stay awake for 48hrs so have to take a sedative to sleep, insomnia, brain zaps/waves like vertigo but whilst sitting, speech problems and speech block, memory loss, suicidal thoughts with one attempt, dry mouth, involuntary movements like jerking.",1 +The medication fooled me.,0 +This drug changed my life completely.,0 +"Dry mouth, some sleepiness and excessive yawning.",1 +felt a little nausea the first day.,1 +Suddenly stopping can cause jitters and loss of sleep.,0 +"Wish me luck on comming off of this Medication, since I feel to bad to go see My doctor that placed me on it!",0 +like a zombie.,1 +However when I did go out I was too numb to the world to have any panic attacks or jitters.,1 +"weight gain, extreme spaciness and forgetfulness, loss of vocabulary, lethargic, cloudy head, lack of concentration.",1 +Immediate relief from depression on the second afternoon.,0 +it took about 4 weeks to really start working.,0 +Cymbalta seems to have a lower threshold in terms of blocking feelings.,0 +"Never have I had such side effects, nor have I ever felt as ""drugged"" as I did on Cymbalta: nervous and speeding.",1 +"This drug is certainly not for everyone, but realize that you don't have to go through life feeling ""blah"" all the time.",0 +"I realize this will not be the same for everyone, but it has worked very effectivley for me for some years now.",0 +"I feel like myself again, and I'll tell ya, it's been close to 10 years!",0 +"loss of appetite, weight loss, nausea (subsided after a few days).",1 +"If I take a weekend off, I can have sex/orgasms.",0 +I started feeling the side effects the fist day i took 10mg.,1 +The highs and lows I used to experience dissipated; I didn't well up with emotion at the drop of a hat; I finally felt in some sort of control over my emotional state.,0 +"Life had literally gotten unbearable, so about two years ago.",0 +Its can be a very dangerous drug for those who have an intolerance to it.,0 +"Feel like it's time to try, tho - at 1:30 a,m, haha.",0 +"After I quit, I have started losing weight and I have gone into a sexual frenzy!",0 +I got very speedy and high off of this drug in addition to feeling standard SSRI effects.,1 +Just recently started zoloft after my husband told me he couldn't handle it anymore.,0 +Am afraid now the doctor will take me off this combination.,0 +"when i forget to eat, i get the shakes - low blood sugar.",0 +"All that aside, at a remission-type dose (150 mg or less), if i don't start experiencing very unusual health affects, i intend to stay on this drug for a long while.",1 +I was on zoloft 50 mg for over a year.,0 +I don't see how I can possibly function because of the side effects and I certainly don't see how I could continue on this medication any more.,1 +"I am in control of my emotions, and I think I see things the way they actually are, rather than skewed by depression and anxiety, However, I've experienced several instances when I forgot to take my EffexorXR when I went to bed (which is when I take it with vitamins)-and by the time I woke up in the morning.",0 +"All these years I had just assumed that by nature I was anti-social and extremely shy, only to find out that millions of people suffer from SAD.",0 +My outlook is depressing.,0 +Tried to up dose to the recommended 10 mg. but side effects did not seem to lessen with time.,1 +"At dose 75, I experience moments of bliss, and extreme colors.",1 +I lost touch with all my friends because I have no interest in seeing them.,1 +The only side effect I've had is it has completly shut down my sex drive.,1 +After being prescribed effexor XR I read the comments on this site and was terrified to try it.,0 +I started off on 2.5 mg for one week.,0 +"Now, after 9 months, constant dull (sinus) headache, constant insomnia, caffeine intolerant (1 cup coffee = heart pounding, headache, agitation, uncomfortable for rest of day), 3 months ago weight started increasing, now 40 pounds heavier!",1 +I am able to mingle with the public now and have sensible conversation.,0 +I had some minor gastrointestinal issues.,1 +"After a few nights of this (while feeling good during the day), the palpitations and subsequent panic were still there in the morning and continued throughout the day.",1 +I was taken off and experianced withdraw so bad that I now back on and slowly coming off.,0 +Why isn't this side effect discussed or indicated as a side effect?,0 +"This is by far the best antidepressant I've been on, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.",0 +"Still a bit sleepy during the day (I take it in the morning), but then frequent waking at night, with very vivid, weird dreams!",1 +"I missed a dose yesterday, and now I'm nauseous, my abdomen is queasy, and I get occasional, incredibly uncomfortable waves of heat that shoot up from my stomach to my sternum.",0 +"dry mouth, headaches, lowered libido, hot flashes, irregular sleep pattern (insomnia like), hitting ""wall"" - brain stops working, poor short term memory, fatigue.",1 +"It really helped a lot, though my anxiety is still present it is not crippling like it used to be.",0 +"sweating, dry mouth, increased anxiety.",1 +"This helped me distract my thoughts and focus them on something more logical, like my work.",0 +only experienced side effects such as Nausea for the first week or two of taking this medication.,1 +can't be sure since I am on many RX's but I think weight gain other than that nothing.,1 +I found taking it at breakfast reduced nausea.,1 +I've been as high as 300 mg and as low as I am now at 112.5 mg I've been on Effexor XR for over 9 years.,0 +Bad diarrhea and abdominal pains.,1 +I gained 13 lbs in 6 weeks and could not get out of bed after 60 days.,1 +"horrible inability to swallow, shortness of breath, extreme decreased appetite, increase in energy, vivid nightmares, extreme decrease in the amount it takes to get drunk.",1 +I did act like a jerk on it as well a few times.,1 +Give it a chance.,0 +I found work hard to focus on and suffered some memory difficulties.,1 +Started out on 30 which did nothing.,0 +"I can't concentrate well,foggy thoughts,poor memory,and don't want to socialize much.",1 +I can handle the side effects because I've felt so good over the past month.,1 +I took it for four years.,0 +Completely silenced the endless tape loop in my head that kept telling me about all the horrible things that would probably happen.,0 +Panic attacks came back.,1 +"Now in week two, just general tiredness through out the day[eventhough I switched from taking it in the am to in the pm before bed, which did help a bit with tiredness], decrease in hunger, and low to no sex-drive",1 +My heart was racing I was cold and hot at the same time.,1 +One other thing is dry mouth.,1 +Unable to eat anything significant for the 3 days.,1 +in addition to stopping caffeine on doctor's orders .,0 +"My doctor has prescribed a very low dose of Seroquel (off-label) to help the anxiety, but I haven't taken it.",0 +"Constipation (1200 mg calcium gel caps is a remedy), the first day I experience,d 1 or 2 hrs of nausea first day only, dizziness has been eliminated by taking the 60 mgs at night !",1 +"It only takes 1-2 weeks to work By the way, if you want to quit this med there is only one way: Opening pills and removing a few micro-capsules every 2 weeks (let's say 20 micro-capsules).",0 +"weight gain, fatigue, unable to orgasm during intercourse, insomnia, lack of sympathy, apathy, losing hair.",1 +Even though I gained weight and had no sex drive I didn't much care about it.,1 +Stayed away from my grandkids cuz I didn't want them to find me dead.,1 +can be dangerous to those who are manic depressive.,0 +"I see Zoloft works for some people, it's scary to think how different we all react to this widely prescribed drug!",0 +(40 lbs) It so far has been hard to change.,0 +"I went from having explosive mood swings, to being more easygoing and stable.",0 +reduced sex drive and difficulty is reaching orgasm.,1 +"I was taking 10 mg. After a lifetime of perfect dental checkups and having beautiful teeth, I now have 50 percent bone loss in my jaw because of the teeth grinding.",1 +The only good thing that's happened from taking it is now I realize my anxiety & depression are not as insurmountable as I thought - being on Effexor IS!,0 +Possible loss of libido.,1 +Head is so mucked up I can barely move or think.,1 +loss of appetite.,1 +"But if I missed a dose I got those ""brain zaps"", and I just felt in a fog not myself at all.",0 +"At first nausea,diareah,shakiness, sleeplessness, brain zaps, muscle twitches, jaw tightness, vivid/scary dreams,loss of sex drive.",1 +Slight nausea at first - but went away after a few days.,1 +"I did go off for a month and the inappropriate anger came right back so now I'm thinking of switching to another SSRI that doesn't cause back pain, cysts and itching, not to mention wanting to sleep 13 hours a night.",1 +Broke my leg (had to have surgury) trying to walk up my porch steps.,0 +greatly decreased libido.,1 +"I have not taken the effexor since Friday morning, it is now Monday and i am JUST starting to lose the anxiousness, not to mention the feeling of total exhaustion and loss of sleep.",1 +I STARTED TO OPEN THE CAPSEL AND EMPTY OUT HALF.,0 +I was very dizzy and sick to my stomach.,1 +Uncertain about night and day sweats as that has been around for a decade due to menopause and a total hysterectomy.,0 +I was to the point that if I even looked at my baby or heard his voice I wanted to vomit.,0 +Went off cold turkey.,0 +I can't see how it can be an anti-depressant when some of the side effects are depressive thoughts and actions.,1 +loss of appetite.,1 +Major constipation; fiber does not help.,1 +"GAINED ONE POUND A WEEK for six months, Yep, 30 POUNDS.",1 +"AT ALL, nausea, weight gain, throat pain and exhaustion.",1 +The depression was not as bad as I feel on this medication.,0 +I don't think anything helps with depression.,0 +incredible drowsiness .,1 +"11) Forgetful, stupid (its Sunday, right?)",1 +"Then as time went over the past few months, since no improvement in depression Doctor upped dose to 120mg, I feel more like an emotional zombie.",1 +"My doctor recommended switching the Eff to Cymbalta, because of this deeper, developing depression.",0 +The Effexor XR worked wonderfully for me until about 2 1/2 years ago.,0 +All side affects and withdraw effects are now gone.,1 +It is a godsend for me.,0 +"Loss of sex drive, manic episodes, trouble sleeping.",1 +"I dont worry about things, I take things one step at a time.",0 +I feel as if my mind is constantly a cool calm pond.,1 +"If this head pressure will go away, I think I would be able to cope much better.",1 +"After taking Wellbutrin for 6 months, it started to wear off.",0 +"Just TWO tablets of Lexapro 10mg completely destroyed my sexual functioning, probably for life.",1 +I loved the stuff.,0 +DO Not stop this medication cold turkey.,0 +Initially went cycling like a yo-yo with mild mania and depression.,1 +I appriciate all this info.,0 +This has worked great for me.,0 +"at start dry mouth& metallic taste; started clinching jaws which causes headache, tooth and gum pain & neck pain.",1 +"If you are a male and dont care about SEX anymore, ever!, then use Effexor XR ,but for me, my libido has always been excellent, even when been depressed.",0 +"I used to describe it as if vague, kind of abstracted strings were pulling me and everyone else around me in accordance with eachother.",1 +"Along with mood swings, irritability, etc It's basically all the symptoms I experienced before I started taking it.",0 +"I felt as if i am in hell, it was so scary that i 'd rather be depressed and anxious.",0 +I now switched to XR 150 mg for the past six months.,0 +I have only been taking lexapro for three weeks but I am thrilled with the results so far.,0 +I was only mildly depressed and had I known then what I know now about the withdrawals I never would have taken this.,0 +I have noticed my mood to be lower and more mad lately.,1 +"Total loss of libido, horrific nightmares, insomnia, weight fluctuations, irritability/angry all the time.",1 +"Chronic cough, weight gain, no sexual interest.",1 +Was in ER 4 times and Was in CCU 2 times.,1 +"I read the symptoms of depression now, and can't believe that I felt like that 5 months ago.",0 +The side effects alone make my previous bouts of depression seem pleasant.,1 +"At first my anxiety increased for the first week or so, but 0.25mg Xanax controlled that.",1 +I've read nothing but negative reviews on this drug.,0 +"I'd sweat so much, I had to change my clothes a few times a day.",1 +"I had no reactions, no emotions, no laughter, nothing.",1 +"4) Weird, (as in How did that tree get there?",1 +Makes going to bed a lot more exciting.,0 +I couldn't leave my house due to anxiety and sometimes couldn't even leave my bedroom.,0 +"I took it before I went to bed, Days 1 & 2 were good- felt relaxed; Day 3 I was spacey, stoned; Day 4 I got severely sick: woke up at 3am sweating, diarrhea, heart racing, mind was racing (almost psychotic thoughts), had a panic attack because I was so scared, almost went to emergency room because I could not relax for 4 hours straight!",1 +I would like to know if anyone else experienced a hearing loss as my brother-in-law is a doctor in an unrelated field and he has never heard of such a thing.,0 +DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG.,0 +"Ongoing side effects include nausea (if I don't eat something with it), sleepiness, and difficulty achieving orgasm.",1 +Fatigue.,1 +"I would rather feel myself, and have anxiety than to feel like a zombie.",1 +"The first 2 weeks I had a headache, I couldn't stop grinding my teeth and I was a little restless but it all went away.",1 +I have never had more interesting dreams than those I had on Lexipro .,1 +It's been 1 week since I quit taking this poison.,0 +Thank God my husband loves me and is willing to supervise and take care of me.,0 +i have only been on generic zoloft for about a week and a half.,0 +"If I was not currently on Zoloft, it may be easy to say that I would have ended my life by now.",0 +I am also free of anxiety and my depression is lifting.,0 +but i hope with time it will help me.,0 +It's very hard to cry.,1 +"Monday before I hurt someone, myself, or just their feelings",0 +But more alarming was the sensation of pressure behind my eyes-like they were going to pop out!,1 +"painful, extreme, and constant Weight gain .",1 +my finger pads seem wrinkly - like a person forty years older than me.,1 +"severe constipation, weight gain, nightmares, hypothyroidism, and another.",1 +Have trouble with memory. ,1 +"Jaw clenching, insomnia, excessive yawning, tiredness & nausea if not taken with food.",1 +"I slept a lot, had no appetite whatsoever, lost weight, felt like I was not myself at all.",1 +"I am almost 30 and have tried several other medications which had much worse side effects and no positive effects, such as: paxil and celexa.",0 +A huge improvement from 2 or 3 hours.,0 +"It does actually affect your behaviour though, so it may be worth trying if everything else won't work.",0 +"occasional sleeplessness; @ 225 mg/day - very difficult to orgasm, not as bad @ lower doses.",1 +I felt like I was always in a bad hash high and scarily disconnected from my body.,1 +"After a few days, insomnia and headaches.",1 +"0% sex drive, difficulty sleeping, nightmares, profuse sweating.",1 +"weight gain, ",1 +I feel so tired all the time that I don't have the energy to do basic every day household tasks.,1 +"Please anyone does this go if so when, can you ever sleep, feel so low have to take dizapan to sleep and thats not good long tern please email me thanku",1 +"This drug has ruined mine and my partners life, as soon as she got past the withdrawal symtoms",0 +I didnt realize how bad I was.,0 +I lost my job and will have to find another one.,1 +"Bipolar depression anxiety 95% erection and 95% orgasm, Heavy drinking night, 75% having an erection and 75% orgasm, Illegal drugs, Speed 85% erection and 10% orgasm, Bipolar depression anxiety 95% erection and 95% orgasm, Effexor XR 65% erection 2% orgasm even when trying for 4 hours plus!",1 +Seems to make my anxiety worse.,1 +It really helped.,0 +I checked myself into the ER 3x in one week certain that I was dying.,1 +"After reading the other posts here, I can now see what I thought was signs of depression is actually side effects of the drug.",0 +"I cannot get off this drug but i cannot stay on it either, Pure poison!",0 +"My doctor kept pushing me to try Effexor, but after reading all the terrible stories here Im quitting now.",0 +"Eyes dialated, Sweating, Nausea, Insomnia, Loss of Appetite, Weight loss-40 lbs in less than 2 months, Tremors.",1 +"It gives me really vivid dreams, where I sometimes wake up, and have to remind myself what is reality, and what is just a dream.",1 +"I stated I feel apathy, but I believe its because I feel apathy towards things that used to make me sad and depressed, and anxious.",1 +"Nausea, a light-headed feeling, and dizziness but only at first.",1 +but 4 days without suddenly and i'm all over these boards looking for withdrawal symptoms!,0 +but i made up for it in the last year and half on this med,0 +it is worth it.,0 +I felt alive and clearheaded with Lexapro.,0 +I literally screamed at a stranger over a parking spot.,1 +"After 3 days my tongue was triple in size and a dark maroon color vivid dreams weird and wild,sores on tongue,no crying,head aches were gone.",1 +"WEIGHT GAIN, Abdominal cramping (GI symptoms), FATIGUE, headaches, diarrhea then constipation, water retention.",1 +I opened the capsual and removed most of the medication.,0 +I feel SO much better.,0 +"No noticeable side effects until dosage was increased from 50 to 100mgs, then I noticed decrease in sex drive and increase in weight gain.",1 +"It's very sad, but it proves to me that medicine is just a money making field, instead of a people helping field.",0 +Will this go away?,0 +"These shocks radiated from my forehead, to my teeth, and then the rest of the way down my body.",1 +Insurance switched to generic and I am struggling with headaches vivid dreams in which I awake in panic attacks full of sweat and have only been on the generic about a week.,1 +I am nervous about this as I am uncomfortable with the loss of my cognitive capacity with this drug.,1 +i would have never ever put this into my body.,0 +I could tell a difference the first day.,0 +The first couple of days I noticed slight dizziness within an hour or so of taking it but it resolved itself.,1 +com to help and it is still terrible.,0 +"My back hurt so bad in the middle of the night I had to take an Ibuprofen, Now I'm at work and I'm shaking so bad and my stomach is so tight!",1 +"No impressive mood benefits, just drawbacks: the most notable was irritability everyday with a general negative outlook and being easily angered.",1 +"I'm so drowsy, I walk as if had 5 bottles of vodka.",1 +First 2 days had loose stools.,1 +Still unsure if it's working.,0 +My 15 year old daughter was on this for 4 days and it threw her into the worst mental state I've seen outside a mental hospital.,0 +i don't want to be on antidepressants the rest of my life.,0 +I don't even know if I did sleep!,1 +Still in fog as I type this.,1 +I've taken it so long- 14 yrs- that today I cannot name any undesirable side-effects.,0 +I DON'T EVER WANT TO FEEL LIKE I DID BEFORE I STARTED ON THE MEDS.,0 +Eventually increasing dose to 90) I have actually felt more tired during day and difficulty with sleeping.,1 +"Dizzy, light headed, foggy brain, just stoned!",1 +"The side effects were severe, but diminished as time passed, and have become tolerable within 2-3 months.",1 +"If I end up a fat, bald middle aged woman I do think my depression will return in a different way.",0 +I've tried going off of Effexor before.,0 +"I was on 50mg for 8 years, after a while it wasn't helping so the doc increased it and I am much happier now.",0 +My hair would be drenched by the time I got to work in the morning - even with the AC on in the car.,1 +Loss interest in doing anything.,1 +Had to go up gradually from 12.5 mg every two weeks until I reached 200 mg in a YEAR.,0 +"However, the side effects are awful, but to me it's worth it because after trying Lexapro, Wellbutrin, and Zoloft, this is the only thing that makes me feel better.",1 +"While on 225 mg Effexor, BP averaged 140/80 and pulse ranged from 85 to 105-resting rate!",1 +"My feelings of depression, which Cymbalta was supossed to fix, were increased and I found myself contemplating sucidial or destructive actions a lot.",1 +"No libido at all, was unable to orgasm from sex. ",1 +Things that I would obsess over before no longer are a concern.,0 +"Also, it seems as though this drug isn't a great treatment for anything other than depression/axiety.",0 +Also I had a very slow metab.,1 +"deep,scary thoughts never have had them before.",1 +had to stay off work for a week or so.,0 +i gained some weight but nothin to rave about.,1 +VERy very slight twtch in my hand or arm sometimes.,1 +all the articles i have read in here are mostly based on short term results.,0 +within 24 its an all out acid t,0 +Incredible sweet tooth .,1 +"I am experiencing hair loss and am wondering what the cause may be-could be Cymbalta, could be my age/hormones, a vitamin I might need, winter.",0 +This was my first anti-depressant medication.,0 +Before I was barely functional and honestly might not be here.,0 +"Hard to be motivated, Increased appetite.",1 +I also found myself making a bizarre sucking motion with my mouth-possibly from the dryness?,1 +Initially some mild headaches and vision blurring.,1 +The med was okay until side effects had negative impacts and it was extremely difficult to get off of.,1 +"Nausea in morning, Dizziness, Heart rate increases quickly with exertion, occasional head rush, most distressing aspect is foggy thinking - sluggish thoughts.",1 +"I just kind of felt numb toward all emotion, Also, my memory started lacking and i couldnt remember long periods of time or things i had done.",1 +I am worried that the anxiety attacks will cause me to do something totally illogical and dangerous to myself.,1 +I guess I can say that there are times my blood pressure increases.,1 +I have so much energy during the day and find myself laughing again.,0 +If it were not for Effexor XR (300 mgs) and Lamictal (75 mgs) I would not have been able to focus and stay on task in finishing my bachelor's degree.,0 +My useless former doctor just dismissed my concerns.,0 +I take 150 mg once daily.,0 +Emotions were very flat for the first month or so.,1 +"Mild sleeplessness, unsatisfying yawns that went away after a month or so.",1 +"first 3-4 months I was doing great, then disrupted sleep began, waking up every hour, night sweats, craving for sugar, low motivation to do anything.",1 +My GAD controlled my life since I couldn't handle any stressful situation but thanks to duloxetine I can have a normal life again I enjoy playing videogames/watching movies again.,0 +I have been losing hair.,1 +I have suffered many side effects from the prednisone used to treat the symptoms.,0 +I think Cymbalta eased my osteoarthritis pain a great deal.,0 +"I lost my mother three months ago, and I don't know what I would have done if I weren't already on Escitalopram.",0 +I also felt uncontrollably sleepy for over a week.,1 +"At the very beginning of taking Effexor XR (75 mg) I had more energy, sweaty palms, jittery legs, hot flashes.",1 +"The drug doesn't even start working for the first three weeks, so grit your teeth, put up with the nausea or premature ejaculation or whatever and let it do it's job.",0 +"Lack of motivation, VERY TIRED all the time, memory loss-feel scatter brained.",1 +Was taking Lexapro which was much like taking nothing.,0 +"nausea at first, but that went away.",1 +I have brain zaps that feel like electrical shocks and result in jerking and spasms.,0 +"I have my appetite back, but have not gained any weight at all.",0 +I had a headache that lasted about a week.,1 +"turned into a raging maniac, i had nausea, cold/hot flashes.",1 +"I was extremely skeptical and afraid to take it, terrified to say the least, because I had a horrible reaction to a few other anti-Ds.",0 +"Excessive perspiration, Erectile dysfunction.",1 +I felt weak and exhausted and unable to keep up with normal days.,1 +Been on 50 mg for 10 years.,0 +I'm going to talk it over with my doctor to see what I'd like to have done.,0 +No wonder I suffered so many side effects.,1 +"Vivid dreams, lack of any sex drive, constipation, farting, some sleepiness.",1 +"I was on Lexapro before going into remission, but since I didnt have insurance and Lexapro cost moe than $100 per month my Dr. put me on Zoloft as a cheap alternative.",0 +But then I felt almost the same as I did before Effexor XR.,0 +"Yes i gained a ton of weight on it, but i haven't on the zoloft so far. + +",0 +I'm barely participating in life.,1 +"increased anxiety, more panic attacks, uncontrollably bursting into tears.",1 +had to pee every five minutes all night.,1 +Side effects also getting better.,1 +Too nauseaus to eat anything but a few crackers or some bread.,1 +"I've tried many kinds of anxiety/dep med and nothing works for me,every one so far has been just a ""sleeping pill"" and I dont want to sleep my life away.",0 +"Initially - zombie like feeling, no emotions, intense yawning; Ongoing - extreme fatigue, ZERO sex drive, chills (that is feeling like someone is walking over my grave.",1 +"I've been more socially confident, been told for the first time that I'm outgoing, and haven't had as much anxiety.",0 +Thinking that I should take more than the 20mg as perscribed.,0 +"Slowing of cognitive thoughts, constipation(mild).",1 +"Complete loss of sexual function, personality disorder, ""brain freeze"" (Google for more info); others too numerous to mention (and which I'm trying to forget!).",1 +"Almost immediately I started to sweat, began to feel very ill, and proceeded to throw up all morning and into the early afternoon.",1 +If I go more than two hours past my dose.,0 +"The doctor knew I was on Steroid inhalers and a smoker when not pregnant, but did nothing when my blood pressure skyrocketed but double my dose.",1 +I found lexapro was the best antidepressant for me.,0 +"I'm fine now that I'm off them, but these drugs shouldn't be on the market in my opinion.",0 +"I'm afraid that the mild addiction will be enough to keep me on them forever, even if I show signs of recovery.",0 +I am assuming the Cymbalta is the cause of the clinching.,1 +"This medication orginally did wonders for my wellbeing and anxiety, However, I needed to come off it as it often impaired my memory .",1 +And I noticed positive effects from day one.,0 +"I know its too soon, but I do not have any side effects, I feel more alert, focused and worry-free.",0 +"I didn't even know what Social Anxiety Disorder was until a few months ago, only to find out that I had a pretty serious case of it beginning as a teenager.",0 +If I take the medicine at night I won't go to sleep.,1 +I take 40mg a day with 3mg klon.,0 +"nausea, diarrhea, sweating, head in the clouds, stoned feeling.",1 +none.,0 +Decreased libido. ,1 +Indifference to food.,1 +"I worried less about things and was able to cope with issues and problems much better, Overall, I felt much better.",0 +I am just now starting to feel better.,0 +"Constantly felt like I was about to faint, felt like my brain was being zapped with an electrical discharge.",0 +HOPE I GET THROUGH IT WITHOUT COMMITTING SUICIDE.,0 +"i was off work for the longest time, finally got back to work and tried to wean off the med , that's when it really hit the fan .",1 +That went away and then I had terrible problems reaching orgasm.,1 +"Reduced libido, some difficulty with ejaculation.",1 +I tell people that Zoloft gives me a Floor.,0 +"Before I got any fatter, I stopped taking it and my metabolism is MESSED UP.",1 +"Decreased appetite, which is rather nice.",1 +I had no appetite.,1 +"More recently, I have experienced dizziness when standing, especially after I get out of the car.",1 +"Intense feelings meaning whenever I was happy, I was extremely happy and sad I was extremely depressed and crying.",1 +I've read enough posts that I think I need to just get through the hell of the first two weeks and then move up to 75 mg and see what happens.,0 +I took one dose of this med and was lucky to be able to drive home from work.,1 +I recommend Lexapro very highly.,0 +I just don't think I can put myself through hell for a few weeks like this.,0 +Really can affect sleep.,1 +I did lose weight on effexor.,1 +All side effects cleared after a few days usage.,1 +"I need to wait for the perfect timing, o",0 +TOLD ME I NEEDED TO STAY ON BECAUSE MY BODY MUST NEED IT TO FEEL ALL THESE SYMPTONS.,0 +I was switched to Cymbalta from Pristiq for cost reasons because I have no insurance.,0 +It should be banned.,0 +Keep a VERY close eye on your side effects with this drug.,0 +That is the only medication I take.,0 +"I dont feel tired, I feel like I can talk to people, and express emotion with out feeling funny about it.",0 +I did suffer some withdrawl depressive symptoms after stopping the medicines but felt better in about two weeks,0 +I can't say these side effects outweigh the benefits.,1 +Side effects have relented a bit into the second month.,1 +They pretty much disappeared after two weeks or so.,0 +Gained weight rapidly while on this drug.,1 +Routine Side Effects for 4 weeks.,1 +"Although side effects were minimal, I started having severe manic episodes after a few weeks - driving 500 miles for no reason, not sleeping for days, etc Eventually I was taken off Zoloft and placed on Lamictal, which is now slowly reducing my manic episodes.",1 +"My blood pressure rose more than 10 points after taking the first Lexapro 10 mg. My normal BP is about 110/70, it rose to 134/88) I cut down to 5 mg, and my blood pressure stayed at about 124/84 until about 4 days after stopping.",1 +"yawning, spaciness, dizziness, insomnia, affected my impulse control, increased appetite, headache.",1 +Weaned off over a period of 2 months.,0 +This drug is the devil.,0 +"Due to various causes, I went a week without my prescription and had terrible vertigo, insomnia, nausea and irritability.",0 +"A little after I began noticing this, I started stuttering, and my stutter got worse as I kept taking the medicine, as did all my other side effects.",1 +"I TRIED SUICIDE, BUT WHEN THAT DIDN'T WORK, I FELL COMPLETELY APART.",0 +I have been off work for 8 months.,1 +"Lack of feeling for anything, just lived day by day.",1 +Did gain some weight but after being on the drug for 9 months that seems to have settled down.,1 +"), 5) Weak muscles 6) Cant catch breath 7) Listless 8) Unmotivated 9) Difficulty getting moving 10) Reaction time slowed, [as in Put your hand on your solar plexus (Huh?",1 +I started on on a low dose and gradually increased to 150 mg.,0 +so far just tight neck and head muscles.,1 +I have learned how to raise and lower the dosage with the seasons/ light changes here in the north.,0 +Should I pull out now before I have to worry abot withdrawl?,0 +"napping many times a day for extended periods, night sweating.",1 +I had waited 7 years for a baby.,0 +don't start this med!,0 +"Having said that also, it saved my life as I was so bad before taking the drugs all I wanted to do was die to stop the dark depression and pain, so I think I have done well.",0 +"I liked the feeling I had while taking it, but what made me quit was the sexual side effects and a 15 pound weight gain in 3 months.",1 +"My emotions feel muted, and my former compulsiveness is replaced with listlessness.",1 +"Only side effect could be lack of libido but not sure I can blame it on drug as I am post menopausal, o",0 +It saved my life - BUT - if you have never taken street drugs before.,0 +"Cymbalta changed my whole thought process, I felt like I was in some sort of hell and couldn't escape.",1 +"I am having ""brain shivers"", ""watermelon head"", weight gain, etc I was taking 75mg for almost 2 years.",0 +My love life suffers due to the lack of sex but it lets me focus on other areas.,1 +"Loss of appetite, weight loss, a bit of a headache about an hour after taking it.",1 +"I suggest that if you decide to take the Effexor, having the xanax on hand for the first few days will help.",0 +which is 150 mgs per day taken with cookies.,0 +I will continue on Cymbalta.,0 +"My emotional range might be a little muted (I don't cry nearly as much), but I still feel like myself.",1 +COLD TURKEY.,0 +"I may drink more than I did before, but still nothing serious, I do get a buzz quicker, but still would never have more than 1 drink through the week, or 2 or 3 on a Friday evening.",0 +Lightheadedness.,1 +"I became more tired, cold and weak after about 6 weeks so I had to discontinue.",1 +"mild insomnia, poor interactions with alcohol.",1 +"Dry mouth,nausea and mild memory loss.",1 +"Some mild effects on discontinuation but nothing too severe, although I did come off it slowly over two or three months.",0 +"It's ruining my relationship, and so I'd really like to get off it but am terrified due to the side effects, and not knowing what I'll be like when I'm off it.",1 +started at 5mg and am now at 15mg after about a month.,0 +"weight gain, spaced-out/zombie-like/""dream""-like feeling, sweating, increased appetite, sleep too deep.",1 +Even things at home that I used to find enjoyable before.,0 +I have been on almost the whole array of psychiatric drugs and withdrawal from this one is the worst I have ever encountered.,0 +Paxcil was the worst.,0 +"sweating, severe tremors, chest pain, Withdrawl side effects: brain flashes, emotional, irrational, aggressive, angry, diahhorea, stomach cramps, vomiting, unable to relax or sleep- these got better after about 2 weeks, but still hanging around.",1 +I just feel like my self (something I never expected to return fully).,0 +I'm too worried about the side effects I'm having.,1 +The first couple days are hard for me to even remember what went on.,1 +Horrible.,0 +Of course my own research proved her theory patently untrue.,0 +"Reality is I became a zombie, robot.",1 +Never again with that drug.,0 +"Immediately gave relief of peace, loss of depression, no more sadness, and overall terrible body pain disappeared.",0 +"I've been on and off of zoloft for a lot of years, and it has helped fairly well.",0 +"This medicine has helped me so much, My anxiety, depression, and panic attacks are gone.",0 +I am the biggest I have ever been.,1 +The increased sexual pleasure only lasted for a couple weaks.,0 +THIS STUFF MADE ME SOOOOOOO TIRED AND I CANT EVEN GET AN ORGASM!,1 +Yea it helped during the time I took it.,0 +"My sex drive seems a little low, but it has not been that active for a couple ye",1 +i thought about suicide and was VERY scared to continue any other sort of SSRI.,1 +it seems to be uneffective to me.,0 +Totally horse tranq knocked out for 12hrs within 2hrs of tasking it couldn't focus on anything laid down and stayed there all day apart from running to the toilet with diarrhoea a few times.,1 +non-existent sex drive. ,1 +"Despite the side effects, I have found Zoloft helpful in keeping my moods moderated, especially when I feel low (though, on the other hand, I also don't really ever feel extremely happy on it either).",0 +"Also, it used to regulate my sleep cycle to something more normal (like getting tired around 11 or 12).",0 +"If I was single, my only choice would be the best for me, Zoloft.",0 +If you can tough it out for the first couple of weeks with the side effects.,0 +Cymbalta has changed my life.,0 +I feel less needy and fearful of abandonment.,0 +"Improvement in my morale has been great, I feel like my old self again!",0 +"In the beginning, I was drousy and had dry mouth.",1 +"Extreme fatigue, difficulty waking up, emotional numbness/detachment, inability to concentrate, forgetfulness, lack of interest in ANYTHING except sleep, inability to reach orgasm with a partner, weakness, excessive urination, dizziness.",1 +I fell 4 1/2 years ago and broke my right ankle in 3 places and I ended up with RSD.,0 +I practically had a nervous breakdown on it.,1 +Have gained back all of the weight I lost and have a big appetite.,1 +"""Cold"" sweat, flu-like symptoms.",1 +I've been taking it for 12 years for suicidal depression.,0 +"In a constant fog, inability to concentrate, no libido, memory loss, night sweats and vivid nightmares(in the first month, stopped eventually).",1 +The research done for med is better than most by far!,0 +"I really wanted this to work and I do think it mellowed me out a bit, I wasn't so on edge, so jumpy and moody and irritable.",1 +"It's simply a cover up your feelings drug,seriously, don't take it!",1 +"heart palpitations, chronic constipation, legs weak and heavy, trembling, crying jags, irritability, once or twice a ""rage"" reaction, very low self esteem, feeling unsafe and insecure, unhappy and scared.",1 +"Side effects were apparent almost immediately (except weight gain which happened gradually, but drastically accumulated-never been this heavy before in my life).",1 +It has not helped my hypersomnia - I can still sleep for up to 14 hours a day.,0 +I just really want to be done with this.,0 +I have NO sex drive and am always tired.,1 +It nearly ruined my life.,0 +"My stomach is on fire, and feels like i drank draino.",1 +"night sweats, yawning, vivid dreams (but not bad ones); the first week felt dizzy; slightly reduced libido but more difficulty in reaching orgasm.",1 +"insomnia for the first few weeks, slight loss of sex drive, reduced appetite, mild weight loss, jaw clenching.",1 +Hmmm.,0 +Hitting the wall with too many life problems resulted in the discontinuation of Effexor and immediately on to Cymbalta.,0 +"suicidal thoughts, constipation, dry mouth, lost of short term memory, etc.",1 +I started 37.5mg and in a week Ill be jumping to 75mg I was so scared to take it that I delayed it because I read all the comments on this site.,0 +"Lethargy, low libido, dont want to do anything.",1 +I cut off all my hair and took the remaining 40 pills after taking about 10 pills as prescribed so it did not take long for me to get into this semi-suicidal state.,1 +"So, I will stick with it and see how it works out.",0 +zomby-like emotionlessness.,1 +"Dry mouth, nausea,no sex drive, and RLS worsened.",1 +Not many.,0 +"Unfortunately, those symptoms have not improved.",0 +I think I may have to have my dosage up'd to the next level because the bad dreams and sudden outbursts are coming back I've noticed.,0 +I've heard horror stories out there about that one too.,0 +"I am bi-polar, and have also taken Lamictal 100 mg once per day on and off in the past.",0 +withdrawal is HORRIBLE!,0 +I was hoping it would eventually go away so I continued to take it and after the 6th day of the same intense side effects I finally had to just chunk them in the trash.,1 +By far the best antidepressant/antianxiety medication I've tried.,0 +I cant go on like this another day.,0 +I haven't fainted but I started to see black spots.,1 +Anything over and it does not help(but I see many take it at higher dosage and my psych.,0 +The most immediate side-effect noticed was extreme stomach discomfort.,1 +"sweating,dizziness, severe dry mouth (coughing all night,can't talk without choking),itchy scalp,insomnia, constipation, hard stool, gas, racing thoughts, teeth grinding, agitation, severe loss of short term memory, moments of enhanced colors,tired all the time, blurry vision, extreme sensitivity to light and sound, insomnia and drunk feeling caused weak immune system, brief speedy moments periodically followed by extreme fatigue, one good day followed by three days of needing to sleep 15 hours, light headedness, loss of balance, complete loss of sex drive, void of emotion (And I am a singer songwriter, painter.)",1 +can't cry. ,1 +I took 5mg for three days and when my Dr. heard what it was doing to me she said to stop it immediately.,0 +Mild headaches.,1 +I think people are more inclined to post on these sites when they've had a bad time with a drug than when things are going well.,0 +ended up in the hospital for 5 days.,0 +when i first started taking cymbalta i started at 30 mg and i took that for a month.,0 +Hopefully this forum of exchange will be a step forward in reaching the cure all miracle drug.,0 +My only symptom now is sweating (clammy feeling).,1 +"Felt calmer, but also had less energy.",0 +I'm now taking Wellbutrin SR and this seems to be doing the trick for me.,0 +I'm really glad I did.,0 +"Started w/ 50MG to build up to 100/day and during first week period experienced horrible side effects; tremors, nausea, etc After that week, no side effects whatsoever.",1 +Gained 40 pounds.,1 +Cymbalta has been literally a miracle drug for me.,0 +"I started low, 25 mg's the first 7 days, then increased to 50) The first couple of days were rough with the insomnia but when that cleared up I felt fine, like I wasn't taking anything.",1 +"Feel disconnected from my emotions, apathetic, no creativity or motivation, can't focus, Extremely tired, loss of appetite, slight twitching, agitated, slight abdominal pain.",1 +"You will end up with a light headed feeling and what I call ""trailers' meaning that it takes your eyes a second to catch up with your focus. ",1 +Feeling this out of control is scary. ,1 +I was a ZOMBIE!,1 +clenching came on right after taking the dose and would gradually wear off .,1 +"I want to get off of it, but I fear feeling the way I did prior to taking any antidepressant, which was horrible.",0 +I just hope these side effects subside after taking it for awhile.,0 +It's totally changed my life.,0 +"Long term: extremely graphic nightmares, night sweats(especially in winter), 30 lb.",1 +"My heart was racing, skin tingling, and even oddly numb.",1 +I began to have terrible nightmares which would keep me up,0 +"i am type A personality and am in the public eye alot, but since on this i do not want to go out anywhere and i surely don't want to do my job, so i must get off of this and try something else.",0 +I felt weird on this medicine and wanted to die.,1 +Please DO NOT TAKE THIS DRUG!,0 +"Dizzy, lightheaded, tired.",0 +Trying to come off of the medication is very difficult.,0 +"This drug is horrible at first, but you HAVE to stick with it.",0 +"BIG TIME BRAIN ZAPS, DRY MOUTH ,WEIGHT GAIN ,SUICIDE THOUGHTS , LEG AND ARM TINGLING, HAIR LOSS, CHEST PAINS, GAS, YOU NAME IT I FELT ALMOST ALL SIDE EFFECTS.",1 +I feel like im on a seesaw teetering between anxious and depressed.,0 +"Feelings of a band around my head, memory loss.",1 +"it only somewhat works,i still need to take buspar to help relieve residual anxiety",0 +"I have vivid dreams, but I always had them & I enjoy them.",1 +Please be carefull with missing a dose with this drug!,0 +"In the beginning, I could not stop sleeping.",1 +Both my children started laughing at her.,0 +Libido is decreased.,1 +Have felt no effects at 25mg/day week one and 50mg/day week two.,0 +"One day, after a weekend of not having it, I couldn't get out of bed because I felt so bad.",0 +"for 2 years, I've suffered from something called lymphocytic colitis (my white blood cells attack my colon), causing severe diarrhea.",1 +"When i took lexapro i walked around in a ""zombie"" like state because i would never be happy about anything, but never really sad.",1 +"extreme nervousness, uncontrollable urge for innappropriate laughter,emotional numbness, profuse sweating, the list goes on and on.",1 +But the side effects I am experiencing are bothersome.,1 +"I could hardly eat, and just sat on the couch everyday staring at the tv.",1 +That's just my opinion.,0 +I have been on anti-depressants since 1986) I have been on this since Jan of this year and to my knowledge have no side effects.,0 +I find that at night I have a harder time falling asleep and then durring the day im exhausted.,1 +I simply don't understand how the FDA could allow this medicine on the market.,0 +Intensified anxiety.,1 +"always tired but cannot sleep at night, i wake up every hour.",1 +Muscle pain from fibromalgia is reduced.,0 +Had a headache too.,1 +At no point was I warned that my personality would change and I would loose my social network.,1 +"not good due to weight gain, when coming off of it you feel OUT OF IT- sometimes I am even scared to drive a car because I feel so off.",1 +"Slight nausea and somnolence, 2ND Time .",1 +My sister was so proud of me she got us a beautiful oceanfront room.,0 +Had to take Zopiclone to get any more sleep than one or two hours of shallow sleep but the combination of the two gave me hallucinations.,0 +I will think of something that I need to do and less than a minute later I have forgotten what it was that I needed to do.,1 +Nothing else has ever relieved it.,0 +I had a very bad experience with Celexa so my Dr suggested Lexapro as it's better tolerated.,0 +Today I start Celexa since it has less sexual side effects.,0 +Although if it wasn't for the hair loss and sexual side effects I would of stayed on it.,1 +Lexapro has given me my life back.,0 +Withdrawal (if w/o for more than 3 days).,0 +in the past i have been on several medications and nothing worked as well as cymbalta,0 +"As I am reading this forum, I noticed one or two (maybe same person) people using bad language & ""dissing"" the use of Zoloft.",0 +They vary greatly in how effective they are.,0 +"To compound the problem, I was put on Diovan 160 mg for high blood pressure at the same time.",0 +I just can't go on indefinitely feeling like I was going to fall over or vomit all day.,1 +"I miss orgasms, but I like the person I am now a lot better than I was.",1 +"When trying to decrease dose gradually, dizziness, migraines, head spinning, brain zaps, body weakness, nightmares.",0 +What am I doing?),0 +I was taken off Cymbalta 6 weeks ago (per my request) and placed on another more affordable medication.,0 +I noticed that almost from day one.,0 +"Extreme irritability, weight gain and sleepless are just a few side effects of this horrible drug.",1 +2nd time on med in 1999 it seemed to not even touch my anxiety/depression.,0 +"tremors,dizziness,headaches,anger,fits of rage, electrical shocks throughout whole body.",1 +Decrease in Libido.,1 +"I will accept the annoying side affects if cymbalta continues to keep the grim reaper, depression and anxiety, OUT of lifejourney.",1 +It was horrible.,0 +"I took it this morning at 8am and by 10 I was feeling off, by 1pm I had to go home.",1 +"Since taking Effexor, my life has been miserable, Can't sleep when I want to, can't stay awake when I want to, lethargic, dizzy, blurred vision, extreme fatigue, extreme increase in appetite.",1 +"I was diagnosed with ""double depression"".Started on 37.5 mg for about 2 weeks, no change, only very sleepy, missed worked, switched to taking at night, uppped to 75mg for a week or two, helped a little bit, I was at an extremely depressed point in my life before I started and it got me back to my ""regular"" state of derpression.",1 +"It makes me feel normal again, and I suffer from extremely severe depression.",0 +"It took me 6 months to get the correct dosage, which for me is 300mg My psychiatrist specialises in using this drug, so was not afraid to carry me up to this level.",0 +"For the entire time I've been taking Lexapro, I've had no sex drive, erectile dysfunction, and only three orgasms during intercourse.",1 +Binge eating like I haven't done since I was a child!,0 +"If I could go back, there's no way I'd let a doctor push me into taking this drug.",0 +Does anyone know?,0 +"Overall, the drug gave me a bad feeling.",1 +I could barely move or get out of bed.,1 +I gradually worked up to 30 mg a day.,0 +I just dont like the brain fog and detached feeling.,0 +"brain zaps,excellerated heart rate,bad dreams,night sweating, tingling of hands and feet,weight gain (feeling hungry all the time).",1 +"If this drug is still going to be prescribed, a more appropriate taper method needs to be developed!",0 +"There's help out there, and millions of people like us who know what we're all going through.",0 +"Neck stiffness and pain, Headache, Muscle pain in legs and lower back, Difficult sleep.",1 +"Am weaning off, and is going well.",0 +"Definitely have more energy, but still not enough.",0 +Able to handle stress better and to look at the bigger picture before I would just jump off the deep end.,0 +Has anyone gone off Effexor and then gone back on?,0 +Some pretty odd things began happening.,0 +"But now you see where once I took 1 med for mood, I now need 3 .",0 +"Help with anxiety and depression (bipolar related) Had dry mouth for a month when first starting it, None",1 +"That subsided around 10am, That's when I noticed how much of a space cadet I was feeling.",1 +Just curious of how dangerous this drug is and if I'm the only one with these problems.,0 +This drug worked very well for anxiety and mild depression.,0 +"i hate feeling out of control, detached.",1 +Since the doctor said I shouldn't expect a difference for 2+ weeks.,0 +I wish I did not take this drug. ,0 +I was not sure if meds were contributing to this.,0 +After the third day on 30 mg of this drug I felt like I was in a fog.,1 +I often contemplate suicide Not sure whether I'll overcome that.,0 +Ihave only taken cympalta for 5 days and already I feel like a new person.,0 +"I've been on Zoloft for years, and we tried Cymbalta because my doctor felt I had gotten too used to Zoloft and it wasn't helping as much.",0 +I would rather be depressed than feel like this-at least depression is predictable and I know it will end.,0 +"Muscle spasms, muscle twitching, muscle soreness, insomnia, mental confusion, flush, brain zaps.",1 +"Don't like that feeling of not caring about anything, though, good or bad.",1 +At 12 1/2 weeks pregnant.,0 +"suicidal thoughts, mood swings, difficulty to concentrate.",1 +"The first week, I went from 60mg to 30mg - I almost divorced my husband of 8 years.",0 +"I had to go to three pharmacies before I could find one that did not cause serious side effects, Again, please be very careful when changing over to the generic of Lexapro.",0 +Cymbalta works better than anything I have tried.,0 +I feel like I want to go run or jump up and down or something to get rid of this excess energy.,1 +"First Month: Insomnia, Constipation, Nausea, Exhaustion, Severe Withdrawal with missed dose.",1 +Am on 30 mg - wondering if I should be on 60 mg?,0 +I had low blood pressure for about 2 weeks after I stopped taking it which caused me to have fainting spells.,0 +I sweat a little more and my sex drive has decreased somewhat.,1 +Inability to orgasm on dosages higher than 75mg a day.,1 +"Weight gain, increased appetite.",1 +"but at the same time felt completely ""flat"" emotionally.",1 +Keep an open mind.,0 +"I still feel dizzy and nauseated, and my hands and feet are tingling.",1 +Cymbalta did not solve my sleepiness and just added many uncomfortable side effects.,1 +"After reading other posts, will try taking in a divided dose or in the am to combat the insomnia.",0 +"About a week later, however, the withdrawal hit and it was HORRIBLE.",0 +"Reduced my anxiety and depression by at least 80%, Love it,",0 +I felt happy for the first time in more years than I could remember.,0 +Depression returned so I went back on at 75MG /day and instantly felt better.,0 +"Anyway, my life is on track, I have nothing to be depressed or sad about.",0 +Switched to Zoloft because Paxil didn't work anymore.,0 +Of all the antidepressants I've been prescribed.,0 +But I've gotten better ever since.,0 +Sleep.,1 +I don't explode when something stressful happens .,0 +"I would NOT recommend this med to anyone, especially those who have an active social life.",0 +The disheartening thing is that the people who are most likely to post on sites like this are the few that have had bad side effects.,0 +It gave me horrible nightmares and I kept waking up.,1 +IT WAS HORRIBLE!,0 +"I also feel very, very groggy in the mornings and have to force myself out of bed, but once I'm up, the grogginess fades pretty quickly and I actually have energy throughout the day.",1 +"I will also get the brain zaps, electrical shocks if I'm just lying in bed.",1 +I seem to have a more positive outlook.,0 +The worst part is that I began to gain a lot of weight once I went without medicine for two weeks.,0 +The side effects have been terrible.,1 +This adversely affected every aspect of my life - personal & financial.,1 +"I have way more energy, actually crave social situations, when before I preferred solitude, I have a sex drive, and more confidence.",0 +under statement of the year SEXUAL PROBLEMS!,1 +I went to a shrink and they increased the dose to 90 mg.,0 +I started at 5mg for 4 weeks and just recently increased to 10mg.,0 +I had a previous bad experience with Zoloft 10 yrs ago when a dr. misdiagnosed my hypothryroidism for depresssion instead.,0 +Lost 10 pounds.,1 +I'm taking 10mg at night before I go to bed.,0 +I'm going to go cold turkey today.,0 +BEWARE.,0 +"Was on this for several years, had back surgery and wanted to quit Effexor because I was no longer depressed or in pain.",0 +No longer on an emotional rollercoaster.,0 +"mosy of my side effects were in the first week or so starting effexor xr and whenever the dosage is raised, i experienced extreme headaches was extremely tired, very nausous, no appetite,a mild ""high"" feeling no sex drive mainly because i was way to tired.",1 +loss of appetite.,1 +Went back to see a therapist.,0 +"I think anyone contemplating using this should be very cautious, o",0 +"lost feelings of joy,could not focus,weight loss,no cares for anything I used to love.",1 +"Normally my waist is 10-12 inches smaller than my hips, but now it is about 5 inches smaller.",1 +"I will go back on them if I have to, as they did keep my super sad thoughts at bay.",0 +"It has helped my depression, but I hate the weight gain, and I have a constant feeling/need to eat.",1 +probably not a good idea?,0 +"I wish I would have never started taking this horrible, horrible drug.",0 +Brain shocks in the beginning with insomnia.,1 +I started feeling better around the fifth day.,0 +I took 10mg for the first time last night before bed and I could barely sleep.,1 +in more ways than one!,0 +"naseua, lower sex drive, extreme fatigue.",1 +This medicine works wonderfully for it's intended purpose.,0 +I couldn't survive without it.,0 +I have found I sweat more on Effexor.,1 +If not for the numbness this would be a great drug.,1 +"Honestly, I get nervous about feeling good on this medication and almost believe too-good-to-be-true, but I t",0 +"I had a few emotional side effects, but they went away very quickly.",1 +I was carrying out 'risky' behaviours and after 4 weeks of taking it I ended up in the emergency department of the hospital twice in 4 days for over-dosing.,1 +"Cymbalta makes me very tired and listless,which in turn made me gain weight, which in turn made me feel more depressed.",1 +"gained 5lbs, decreased sexual desire.",1 +"10 lb weight gain, increased amt panic attacks, anxiety. ",1 +"There was no improvement in the level of my anxiety, depression, or OCD.",0 +"Had dry mouth for a few days, it might have aggravated a stomach problem I already had but I'm not sure.",1 +"My weight has stablised and I am seven pounds heavier than I used to be, but I have a decreased appetite.",1 +I also just felt.,0 +I havent had any bad side effects.,0 +"distrust of all include myself, insomnia, dizziness, lose weight, anxiety, panic attack, swoon.",1 +"Loss of libido, Difficulty reaching orgasm, fatigue I feel tired most of the time, yawning, dry mouth,weight gain.",1 +This drug should not be given to anyone.,0 +you must must must gradually lower the dose by a month at a time or you will suffer TERRIBLE consequences.,0 +"No side effects, no results.",0 +Coming off this drug after 10 yrs is HELL!,0 +So 40 seems to work best for me.,0 +"I find myself able to fully concentrate, despite the slight dizziness and brainfog it gives.",1 +I LOVE IT!,0 +Lost the love of my life because of it.,0 +"Took Fri afternoon, nauseous and dizzy immediately, spaced out, went to bed for 2 hrs, got up, couldn't even make dinner, stumbling/spacey.",1 +"I was prescribed this medicine to help with depression and anxiety, but the side effects are awful.",1 +"Made me really forgettful, weakness so bad it was a struggle just to comb my hair.",1 +I believe if i took this drug any longer I would most likely gain 30+lbs real fast.,0 +I'm on 225mg a day now.,0 +This occurs almost exclusively when I am over-tired.,1 +"Loss of appetite (good side effect) weird, lucid dreams, night sweats.",1 +took 150mg of Zoloft with 300mg of Wellbutrin together.,0 +Works great other than side effects,0 +It leveled me out and made coping with circumstances manageable.,0 +I wake up about every two hours and am very restless throughout the night.,1 +Paxil seemed to calm me down so much.,0 +was taking it for multiple failed fertility treatment's and devastating experience with failed IVF.,0 +Mild itching and headaches.,1 +"Day One - spacey, Day Two - nauseous, tight neck and head muscles, internal hot flushing accompanied by weakness and trembling, Day Three - nauseous, increased heart rate, warmer than usual, increased anxiety, Day Four - nauseous, digestive upsets, tight neck and jaw, prickling & tingling on skin, flushing, increased anxiety, experiencing zaps when falling asleep, woke in the middle of the night very hot, anxious, prickly, got scared, didn't take the med on Day 5, now decided I will try to tough it out, Day 6 - took it an hour ago.",1 +"After a few weeks that ended as well as my crying spells, my hate for life, and my suicidal thoughts.",0 +"Fainting, nervousness, nausea, insomnia, sweating.",1 +These disappeared after a few weeks.,0 +"I have tried to quit cold turkey and have experienced what some call ""brain shivers"".",0 +"My pharmacist convinced me that it was safe for me to use along with my topamax, and encouraged me to try it.",0 +"But I still have bad pain in my right arm, legs and feet, the pain is heaviness and electic shocks.",1 +My mood and energy are better than they have been in months.,0 +Brain zaps; grinding my teeth; night sweats; constant shaking of my hands and limbs; not being able to stop my Head going into tremours; insomnia; constant fatigue; headaches; hair falling out; forgetfulness; sore jaw etc - you name it I got them all badly !,1 +Dry mouth and weightloss.,1 +I wouldn't give up this drug for anything but you have to understand that small improvements occur across several months and you have to hang in there for the long haul.,0 +"I got so depressed on it that I swollowed the whole bottle hoping to end my life, but luckilly Iam still here",1 +"not worth the loss of sex drive or ability to have an orgasm, ever!",1 +The reason is weight gain.,1 +No bad side effects.,0 +Made me even more suicidal.,1 +"It was getting quite debilitating because my work requires driving to different places at times, Now, for the 10 months I've been taking Lexapro, I've only had three instances where I could feel myself going into a panic attack .",0 +I was on Zoloft for about a year.,0 +I have been very satisfied.,0 +Trouble Staying asleep for more than 2hrs at a time.,1 +"right now, what I'm dealing with is the inability to climax.",1 +knowing what i know now.,0 +"sleeplessness, 'fuzzy thinking', lack of concentration, lack of memory, unrational behvaviour, extreme anger/agitation, oh ya, sweats too .",1 +"Initial-brain zaps, headache, fatigue: all went away after 2 weeks Later-Weight gain.",1 +"Fatique (hard to get out of bed in morning), difficulty (but not impossible) to have orgasm and weight gain.",1 +dr says that it can take up to 8 weeks .,0 +The worst AD withdrawals I have ever experienced and I've tried heaps.,0 +It's called PSSD: post-SSRI sexual dysfunction.,1 +"then I lost it, The hospital told my husband I was functioning at 28% consciousness, I wrote all over my body, talked to the walls, cried HARD, and screamed ""dont touch me!""",1 +"The ""speed"" side effect was very unusual, and I could see it casuing addiction in some people.",1 +nausea at first only.,1 +Absolutely no libido! ,1 +Stay away from Cymbalta.,0 +After about 4 days on this med I n oticed a definite uplift in my mood and my anxiety was a little lower.,0 +Cybalta definitely helped with my depression but the side effects really took a toll on me after only a week.,1 +Now questioning if I should start tapering off and slowly transition to edible medical cannabis.,0 +Not a good look!,0 +This is a TERRIBLE drug and definitely should not be prescribed for elderly patients or anyone for that matter.,0 +I seem to be quite fortunate.,0 +"I had hand shakes,warmness in my body,very energized,mood was alot better,sweating,pretty bad insomnia which i did not like.",1 +"insomnia, loss of appetite*.",1 +"Fatigue, dizziness, apathy, muscle jerks, jaw clenching, interfered with Thyroid replacement medicine, insomnia.",1 +Drowsy during the day.,1 +Obviously not the SSRI for me.,0 +"Put on a huge amount of weight, Constantly constipated, Not motivation.",1 +When I forget to take my medication I get vertigo immediately after I miss my dose and often I get massive headaches.,0 +This drug is worse than any medication I have ever heard of.,0 +"Very severe withdrawl after only one day of not taking the drug, which include disorientation, vertigo, nausea and what they (weblog which supports users coming off Cymbalta) call 'brain-zaps' where you experience some kind of electrical shock type feeling in your brain.",0 +"I not only lost the ability to orgasm, but stopped having even the slightest feelings of arousal.",1 +"It's not that I am not depressed anymore, I just don't care.",1 +Hoping that fades or it's time for stimulant!,0 +"I was sleeping at least 9 hours a day and still felt tired upon waking, yawned throughout much of the day, However, over time I felt it was becoming less and less effective.",1 +"I was constantly drinking water and had to have a bottle by my side at all times, it was just incredibly uncomfortable.",1 +"It did, however, fix the seratonin related imbalance, such as excessive crying and worrying.",0 +"Frankly, I have been on Effexor XR so long that it is hard to tell what side effects I do have.",0 +It seems like I've become an alcoholic since starting Zoloft.,1 +"They alter your thinking, and basically just mask the problem.",1 +"Very sleepy, would doze off at work at my desk and during meetings.",1 +The Effexor did work for my depression while taking Lamictal.,0 +more tiredness and irritable when I had to get up.,1 +Twice in less than 8 days.,0 +"My doctor dropped me down to 10mg/day today and I'm taking it at night, DON'T STOP TAKING IT WITHOUT A PLAN.",0 +Huge improvement and almost instant end to leg spasams.,0 +Overall does help my depression.,0 +Now I am on my second interview thanks to Cymbalta,0 +My fiance of 5 years dumped me with no warning and went back to his x-wife.,0 +didnt do much for the depression.,0 +"if you are an othewise phyically healthy human you may risk compromising the proper functioning of the T-cells which may have UKNOWN consequences, the worst being autoimmunce disease which will make you very sick with flu-like symptoms and unable to get better,please beware.",1 +During the first week I could not be around my 4 year old son because of extreme anger!,0 +"Worked really well first six months or so for my depression but after several freaky alcohol incidents where I drank 3-4 glasses of wine and then blacked out completely, I cut down my dosage from 20 to 10 mg and plan to go back on Welbutrin at my next doctor's consult.",1 +"Takes care of the sugar craving - i used to eat vegies lots and hardly any fruit, now it's reversed.",1 +"Coming off Cymbalta does sound scary, but I am trying to just enjoy feeling well for now, will cross that bridge down the road.",0 +"Vertigo, nausea, muscle aches, flu-like symptoms, diarreha.",0 +I was on 60s and did a few days of 30's and quite.,0 +"Also I had a severe inablility to concentrate which made it impossible to do my job,I am a Registered Nurse.",1 +"Its great for depression and anxiety, but I would not recommed it due to the horrible side effects and withdrawl symptoms.",1 +"but I wasn't anything positive either, just BLAH.",1 +"nausea at first, which subsided after a couple of weeks.",1 +I am a cancer survivor.,0 +in the evening and added Wellbutrin 200mg.,0 +Sleepiness Dizziness Constipation Raised blood pressure Fatigue,1 +"others like insomnia, no libido, and sweats appeared prior, with menopause.",1 +I started with 10mg for a few weeks.,0 +You've saved my life and my daughters.,0 +"the usual list of suspects, My mother's side of the family is full of passionate, emotional rage machines, so it is a genetic thing or I am a product of the environment in which I spent my formative years.",0 +I do not mind these as they are not bad enough to be particularly unpleasant.,0 +"This medication definitely stabilizes me, but I'm concerned by how quickly my mood goes out of control with brain zaps when I go even 36 hours without a dose.",0 +I am a homemaker and i have four little girls.,0 +"It works, but the questions is, are you ready to deal with a drug this powerful?",0 +"Insomnia was horrid the first 2-3 days, not sleeping but 2-3 hours each night.",1 +the generics of Lexapro are NOT all the same.,0 +"feeling really weird on it sevre visual disturbances and extreme weakness + +.",1 +none of these side effects bad enough to discontinue drug so far. ,1 +I would normally laugh.,0 +The nightmares make me not want to sleep.,1 +Explained to the doctor it wasn't helping to begin with 1 month after taking it so upped the dose on me and its done nothing to really help pick me up at all.,0 +"Some typical antidepressant side effects, but nothing too serious.",1 +"Lexapro has been great as far as balancing out my mood, and making me feel much less anxious and happy overall, However, the drowsiness is becoming a pretty big problem, especially when I am sleeping an average of 12 hours a day (mostly in 4-5 hour naps).",1 +I feel like I don't need it any more.,0 +"Until I woke up nauseous, as soon as I ate I was fine, 2nd day: no side effects.",1 +"I have had nightmares about my car wrecking, drowning, not being able to move, my husband having an affair with my best friend, and a lot more.",1 +Ive only been on it for 1 day and was a little naucious this morning and my jaw has been wanting to clench down.,1 +"decreased appetite, nausea (went away after a few days), some sudden dizzy spells (last a few seconds to a minute or two), constipation, gas.",1 +Think menopause is a huge factor in this.,0 +"From the sounds of the other posts, it doesn't have this effect on everyone.",0 +I have FINALLY figured out that I am having an extreme allergic reaction to Cymbalta.,1 +I can make friends.,0 +Sleeping more did not affect my sleep schedule.,1 +should I up the dose or go off it?,0 +"LIKE 24/7, & I HAVE PUT ON AT LEAST 30 LBS IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS, ALTHOUGH I HAVE NOT CHANGED MY EATING HABITS.",1 +"I started out taking 300 mg of Effexor and am now down to 150 mg At 300, I had very bothersome night sweats.",1 +I am taking 25 mg a day.,0 +some weight gain.,1 +"Typical with effexor XR- Dizzy, jaw tight, teeth grinding.",1 +"Doubling the I felt emotionally flat, no emotion.",1 +"Cry, irritable, then I start to have untimely jerkiness.",0 +When I started with the medicine it was pretty new and I guess they did not know about the withdrawal side effects.,0 +I would usually leave class early because being around others gave such horrible panic attacks.,0 +"Suicidal thoughts and attempts, Dreadful withdrawal-nearly ruined my life and continues to be a huge problem.",1 +i would not recomend anyone take this medication for any reason.,0 +"A nurse at the emergency room that checked me vitals, was the only person I remember, beside my two children.",0 +"For the first two weeks I felt very spacey and drugged, a feeling similar to taking extasy.",1 +"initial side effects lasted a week or so - bug eyed, dizzy, nausea - just like with any anti-Dep.",1 +scary.,0 +Right now I don't have any.,0 +"Took the med for only 3 days and the first night, I think I got a total of 2 hours of sleep.",1 +"Almost no libido at all, Utterly useless.",1 +I'm jittery and feel like I'm going to jump out of my skin after taking my dose.,1 +"Unlike the other people on here, I haven't really experienced that many side effects, or really any that are any sort of bother to me.",1 +I don't see how someone like a truck driver could ever take this drug.,0 +Loss of appetite.,1 +"I felt an almost instant change with this drug, but ended up spending a lot of time in bed feeling tired and indifferent instead of going to class.",1 +I was just weaning off Lexapro after 2 1/2 months because Lexapro stopped working and caused fatigue and my doc switched me to cymbalta.,0 +"I have read the side effects of coming off the cymbalta, sounds really scary.",0 +This has been a god send for me.,0 +"For perimenopause, at first it seemed to help reduce the emotional over-reacting.",0 +nothing was funny and nothing made me too upset either.,1 +TODAY I'd like to know if my recent muscular twitches are related to this medicine.,0 +My experience with Lexapro has been extremely positive.,0 +It makes you look like a crazy person when your labs are normal and you still complain of pain.,1 +"None at first, but over time I realized 1) I had gained 50 lbs in the last 3 years, 2) I had anxiety attacks that I previously never had , 3) Restless Leg Syndrome, 4) Sweaty and HOT nearly all of the time.",1 +The symptoms are not slight.,0 +It's six days now and the obsessive endless thoughts about a bad event in my life are already subsiding.,0 +"Diarrhea, which can be extremely annoying, but I am figuring ways to minimize it (taking it on a full stomach is helping).",1 +to start as weird side effects ranging from head aches to 'whirring brain' effects and restlessness.,1 +"Once the Med had firmly taken hold of me, my life turned from one full of anxiety, fear and depression, too one of absolute fulfillment and happiness.",0 +If it wasn't for Efexor Xr i wouldn't be here today .,0 +"Impossible to concentrate, no desire to do anything.",1 +Please email me as long as you have something good to say.,0 +i have stopped taking sertraline for 4 days now and the side effects haven't worn off yet.,1 +"I was only on 20MG and it worked mentally but to this day, my gastro-intestinal system is screwed up.",1 +Please contact me if you also have cold symptoms and you think it's from the cymbalta.,0 +I was previously on Paxil which was not effective.,0 +"Overall I'm glad I'm on it, have been for around 4-5 years now.",0 +"About four hours after my dose it's like I went downhill, my head got very heavy, and that was the foggy state.",1 +Well except for my boyfriend.,0 +It really works great on depression.,0 +"Felt numb, robot-like.",1 +"Zoloft worked quickly and effectively at first, but eventually the weight gain it caused led to more depression (not to mention other health problems!)",1 +"Severe diarrhea, which caused bad abdominal cramping.",1 +Severe teeth clenching/TMJ which caused excruciating headaches .,1 +suidical feelings.,1 +But I,0 +"I have been dizzy and now as I progress into withdrawal, I am becoming more agitated, negative and morose.",0 +don't know if my problems were because I wasn't depressed (I was misdiagnosed with depression when my problems were Claritin side effects).,0 +This is consistent every month.,0 +Yesterday I started taking 25mg and I feel horrible.,0 +My advice to anyone considering taking the drug is don't stress out when reading the side effects.,0 +Equilibrium problems at 50 mg. dropped by to 25 mg solved problem,1 +The worst side affect is that it takes a long time to achieve orgasm if I can at all.,1 +"Felt like on an LSD badtrip, but way worse.",1 +"Sometimes feel JOY - dancing around the house, energetic, feel good about myself, most times just feel balanced, calm.",0 +"Basically I anise these tablets no end and take up to 800-1000mg hence all the side effects, but because I abused them so heavily at the start a normal dose now gives me withdrawal which gives all the above side effects.",0 +"When I told my doctor that he most likely misunderstoof and thought I was exhibiting schizophreniform symptoms, when in reality, I didn't believe in any of it, it was merely the only way I could describe the sensation.",0 +"With 300 mg, insomnia.",1 +"helps me in my job which is high energy and high stress, headaches can be debilitating and twice I had to be picked up from work because the headaches came on so strong I couldn't drive myself home",1 +"I do sweat like a pig at night, am very flat emiotionally and have zero sex drive, which is good, because it also keeps my johnson from working very well.",1 +I 'submitted' to my therapists advice and tried Lexipro- to no avail.,0 +trouble sleeping-still depressed.,1 +"swelling of legs and ankles, eventually entire body, bloating, constipation, loss of ""caring"".",1 +Weight loss.,1 +I am concerned about side effects that I will have when I stop taking it.,0 +"Headaches, mood swings, grinding teeth, feeling low, loss of concentration,anger, suicidal and omicidal thoughts.",1 +Ugh!,0 +The dr. says losing all that nervous energy has slowed my metabolism(?).,0 +"weight gain, sweating, loss of libido, crave carbs - see additonal comments.",1 +It's GREAT!,0 +I highly recomment it to anyone.,0 +soon and I will share this with my doctor.,0 +"Dry Mouth,. ",1 +"Changed my primary care Dr, had tests on my heart, ultra sound in legs, so now I have fast heart rate,poor circulation.",1 +"So, if the depression doesn't eventually cripple you, the costs will.",0 +"Also, these where the side effects while I was on the drug as well.",1 +The 5-HTP is great for mild serotonin disorders.,0 +I dont like feeling like that.,0 +"I am sleeping better than ever before, no pounding heart.",0 +I am hoping that my experience with this med continues and that it gets more effective as time goes on.,0 +"I went from 75mg to 37.5 mg for a week, then 37.5mg every other day for 2 weeks .",0 +It is a big problem i think in the economy.,0 +I had the best sleep I'd had in months.,0 +"weight gain that I cannot shake, but other than that it is much easier staying on an even keel in my PM week, and my family doesn't have to tolerate an anxious B**** who wants nothing but to run away during that week. ",1 +"Once body is adjusted, only side affect is rapid weight gain.",1 +I could not function.,1 +"Everyone is different, but for me Lexapro was like some kind of torture device, Can't wait for it to leave my system.",1 +"Lack of ability to obtain erection (before taking, it was almost as if I could just think about something sexual to obtain erection, now my girlfriend and I both need about 10 minutes of heavy passionate kissing to even get horny (she is also on Zoloft now), Ejaculating problems, mainly sexual side effects.",1 +If I forget even a single day of this medicine I feel completely gone the next.,0 +"I am taking 5 mg. Can orgasm easily so far (I've been checking), If anything, my appetite's diminished, But it's only been 6 days, and I expect things will change.",1 +"I have been losing handfuls of hair every time I brush, wash or run my fingers through it.",1 +none.,0 +I am tapering off pazil.,0 +Helped not only with the issues I was immediately experiencing (extreme panic and hypochondria) but long-standing social anxiety and obsessive thoughts have also been relieved.,0 +However the inability to orgasm has been addressed by use of a prostate massager which works well despite being embarrassing.,1 +My weight at 140 lbs made me sad.,1 +you'll read and re-read the same paragraph over and over again!,0 +then I quit altogether.,0 +"i suffer from upset stomach, headache (always over my lft eye) terrible highs and lows and hot flashes.",0 +"Other than that, I'm staying with Effexor XR.",0 +I will never ever recommend this drug to anyone.,0 +Lexapro has helped me immensely.,0 +"I am very healthy and physically fit, Just started-only 2 37,5 mg. doses into it.",0 +COMPLETELY DESTROYED SEXUALLY FUNCTIONING .,1 +"Withdraw symptoms of drug lasted 3 weeks and included Nausea, jolts of dizziness which included when i moved my eyes from side to side or looked at close things then afar.",0 +"There are down sides to it, but this medication helped me through a very, very tough time in my life.",0 +it's no better than placebo at treating any mental health condition.,0 +"Severe stomach cramps, upset stomach, dizziness, spacey.",1 +Change in personality .,1 +"It certainly works for what I'm taking it for, but sometimes it can be very hard to handle the side effects I experience with it.",1 +"I also found that after the initial period of appetite & weight loss, my appetite went back to normal & I have since gained quite a bit of weight.",1 +THE WITH DRAWS OF THE MED IS SO INTENCE.,0 +"weight gain, sexual side effects, extremely unhappy with all of these side effects.",1 +Just kind of existing day by day.,1 +It DOES get better!,0 +I was on a different AD before this and the doctor switched it to this.,0 +not good.,0 +Duno but i need my brain back!,1 +I am still feeling head pressure which is causing my moodiness but the doctor doesn't believe me.,1 +"I have to say so far, so good, well GREAT.",0 +It is only recently I am trying to change to Wellbutrin because of the weight gain.,1 +"If I have any of the issues I've read here, you bet I'll be back to let you know.",0 +no sex drive at all.,1 +"the last three weeks I haven't been able to watch TV since it makes me feel nauseus, and I haven't been outside in two weeks due to the dizziness!",1 +I have to take an additional medication for anxiety.,0 +I cant stay home being stoned and exausted over this medicine.,1 +I always have to start off on very low dosages.,0 +I cant say that Ive had any negative side effects from taking this medication.,0 +"I've always had somewhat of a sweet tooth, but now I crave peanut butter cups with a vengance- it is the only thing that still tastes good to me, But, I am also eating like crazy.",1 +I'm sorry this is more about not taking it than about side effects of taking it.,1 +"At no point was I informed that it *was* addictive in humans, despite non-human testing showing otherwise.",1 +These side effects are slowly letting up.,1 +"After initial side effects of the 75mg dose wore off, moved to 150mg.",0 +"Tension headaches, nausea, jittery feeling.",1 +Also had the side effect of irritability and just feeling grumpy too often along with jumpiness.,0 +"i suppose if i had not been on the effexor, i would have been clear-headed enough to know not to take anything else, but i couldn't form a coherent thought for the life of me .",1 +"I would also wake up in the mornings drained out feeling dizzy, making it real hard for me to get ready and go to work.",1 +THE ONLY SIDE EFFECTS I EXPERIENCED WAS PROBLEMS REACHING ORGASM.,1 +I feel like a person.,0 +It has really helped with my depression and my ability to handle things.,0 +this drug didnt really work that well for me to come off this hard.,0 +Taking cymbalta was the worse day of my life! ,0 +The main benefits for me are the reduction of anxiety and the improvement in my energy levels.,0 +I take 78mg per day every morning and I like myself on this drug.,0 +The 'broken sleep' however is frustrating.,1 +I am currently in week 5 of my detoxing and it has not gotten better.,0 +head felt completely detached from body and feeling suicidal.,1 +"Be very careful about this drug, but it helped me immensely the first time, Be wary, but don't be completely close-minded either.",0 +I couldn't even remember acting this way.,0 +Clenching my jaw has gotten worse since I've been on it.,1 +"I have had a loss of sex drive, Also.",1 +"Sleep issues, also I now have a harsh edge to my inter-action with others.",1 +I can sit for hours day in and day out with no interest in usual pastimes.,1 +"BUT, hated the physical side effects, I took valerian (okayed by doctor) to offset the insomina - but weirdest was I realized only after I went off it how it affected my eating habits - I put on weight - around 10 lbs - in the 2.5 months on it - no impulse control and ""munchy"" syndrome - this was counterproductive as I had lost a lot and putting it on made me depressed!",1 +Killed my sex drive.,1 +been great for depression.,0 +I continued to take effexor until I found the information about the,0 +Stayed on 10 for 9 mos then went up to 20mg.,0 +Even with all the side effects I really think Lexapro is the right choice for me.,1 +"Lethargic, body aches, migranes, Dr. prescribed 20mg daily.",1 +"I was near 300 mg a day, and made the decision about a week ago to discontinue this drug, it was not worth all the side effects.",0 +Occasional dryness of mouth & constipation at first.,1 +I called my dr. office they told me to drop it down to 2.5 until they could see me.,0 +I suffered from a mental brake down after 5 weeks of being on the Seroquel and when I had to stay at a mental facility they put me back on Zoloft and increased my dose to 150mg.,0 +I'm already at 120mg and would like to go even higher.,0 +"I am only on 25 mgs, but I feel it is working for me.",0 +I am detoxing from Lexapro now.,0 +I can live with a few side effects as long as it cures my depression.,1 +"I truly felt ""normal"".",0 +"Yes, it did take the anxiety away, but it's making mashed potatoes out of my brain.",1 +"dizziness, nausea, extreme loss of appetite, diarrhoea, lethargy, tingling in fingers, sleeplessness, low blood sugar from loss of appetite.",1 +I vomited for three days straight.,1 +I'm hoping to be able to stay on the 75 mgs for as long as possible.,0 +loss of feelings.,1 +"Since then, I have had moderate insomnia.",1 +"drowsiness, delirium, constipation, fatigue, weakness, listlessness, insomnia.",1 +Really quite amazing.,0 +Felt like I was sitting in a chair watching the world go by.,1 +This was my first antidepressant and it worked great for a while.,0 +"Overall stoned feeling, tingly sensations, confused, could not stop crying, dizzy and disoriented.",1 +music doesn't sound as good.,0 +By the second week when I went to the 60 mg I felt like a different person.,0 +I have tried almost all classes of anti depressants and so far this works the best.,0 +I am not going to take anymore.,0 +"First few weeks: fatigue, dry mouth, jaw clenching, night sweats, always feeling too warm, vivid dreams, What's still with me today?",1 +"It is a wonderful drug, although.",0 +"After much thought, I decided that the benefits of nursing outweighed the negligable risks of the meds, And, to not treat the depression would have been plain stupid.",0 +Effexor has been very effective in calming me in situations (even insignificant ones) where I would normally,0 +I get so irritable and aggressive when I don't take it.,0 +"This drug works wonders, can feel it working immediately.",0 +"I had impulsivity, I think just to see if I could get some feeling.",1 +I take 10mg per day.,0 +Made me gain a quick 15 pounds.,1 +My depression was gone until after about 5 months then the Zoloft just stopped working.,0 +But my overall mood has been much better which I guess is a good thing.,0 +"I'm not really thrilled with the Lexapro, but I will keep you posted.",0 +"If that werent enough, it increases anxiety and thus has less value as an anti-depressant.",1 +I eventually weaned off by opening capsules and pouring about half out.,0 +"I had multiple recurrent thoughts of suicide, the worst self harm I have ever done, all culminating in an overdose on the drugs, leading to an overnight hospital stay.",1 +I didn't have bad withdrawal.,0 +Woke up this morning with jitters.,1 +Facing the possibility of a lifetime with no sexual enjoyment (and the impaired relationships this implies) has been devastating.,1 +I was initially scared of ANY anti depressant after my experience with the Z.,0 +very hard to separate all these things out but generally I loved my EffexorXR at $187/month.,0 +"very low libido, no sex drive, intensified affects of alcohol tremendously, it relieved crying episodes, it helped me get my life back as far as enjoying things. ",1 +"mild, a little dizzy at first!",1 +"cant sleep, sweating, feel sick and dizzy, feel like im zoning out all the time inbetween feeling sick and dizzy of course.",1 +I know the pain is real.,1 +Had a massive marriage breakdown 3 years ago and my illness was untreated until.,0 +"Initially, some insomnia which subsided.",1 +"After a month some of the anxiety and self-destructive urges returned, but I feel more able to manage these episodes and they are less crushing.",0 +I've tried to wean myself a few times and it's terrible.,0 +"to the point where school was becoming arduous, Then, when I got worse, they put me back on it, That time, however, was the most horrendous experience of my life.",0 +Initially helped with depression but after a while just felt spaced out and tired all the time.,1 +"Loose stool, loss of sex drive, headaches.",1 +I had been on just about every antidepressant out there and none worked.,0 +I also notice not worrying so much anymore about things .,0 +"If you have the time and inclination to become an artist however, this may be the drug for you.",0 +WEIGHT GAIN first two weeks a little dizzy.,1 +weight gain.,1 +I am slowly getting my life back from severe depression.,0 +It also killed sex drive.,1 +For the 1st.,0 +"scattered brain, and inability to focus.",1 +is there a higher dosage of zoloft that brings you back to life after 200mg that my doc.,0 +"I deal with massive exhaustion from FMS, pmdd, shingles, and EDS, and this has made it worse, though I'm making it through work.",0 +"dry mouth, increased sweating, sexual problems (libido and ability).",1 +Zoloft was prescribed to me to help with depression and if I knew that there were reported cases that this anti-depressant could increase the risk of suicide I NEVER would have agreed to take the medication.,0 +"I no longer carry the feeling that I am worthless and useless (despite having a ph,d.and a good career) and the world would be a better place without me.",0 +"I began to cut,and attempted suicide several times,I've been self harming since I was a kid.",0 +I completely had to change med to stay well al least of my real state.,0 +"All of the sudden a hot flash shot throughout my body, my heart skipped several beats, and I felt like I was going to die for a minute.",1 +Delayed orgasm.,1 +I have to take a nap every day.,1 +Started so long ago.,0 +The side effects of coming off this drug are hell.,0 +I have never been a physical person and I do not think twice to hit someone if I am really hurt.,1 +Since then I have been in a power chair and I can do almost nothing by myself.,0 +Heart palpitations for 2 weeks.,1 +I felt suicidal.,0 +Can't we treat our depression and still have an orgasm?,0 +"- Loved this drug, but if you don't like the feeling of uninterrupted calm.",0 +I had pain all over my body!,1 +"good, much better than the effexor I was on.",0 +"Decrease in Sex Drive, Flat Mood, Sleeplessness.",1 +"I have to say, after reading this site's and others about Cymbalta, I'm a bit freaked out in switching from Zoloft.",0 +Oh sex no problem.,0 +"Only fatigue and sexual side effects while taking it, during withdrawal I have shortness of breath, dizziness, light headedness, brain zaps, bouts of nausia, sweating, very strange dreams, some nightmares, mood swings, and lots of drowsiness.",1 +"Jittery, clenching/grinding teeth, insomnia, lack of libido.",1 +Emotionally I feel great now but went through HELL withdrawal.,0 +"Bad head ache next day, but after that OK. After 4 more days on 3/4 dose, took 1/2 beads out and had no side effects.",0 +Despite the many side effects I love this drug.,1 +I woke up at least 5 or 6 times every night.,1 +I would not recommend taking this at all.,0 +"I feel like I finally know what it's like to be normal, and I'm so happy.",0 +"Before Zoloft I was easily confused, now I can think clearly and control my thoughts.",0 +Some people even claim that the first day of taking the pill it was either aweful or amazing.,0 +"I'm stepping down slowly and even doing that, I've experienced dizzyness, headaches.",0 +I found on the regular Effexor that I didn't have any of these symptoms because it wears off. ,0 +Finally my Dr. switched me to Lexapro.,0 +"Since switching to Cymbalta, my depression & anxiety are very well managed.",0 +Feel good for the first time in 20 years.,0 +Effexor XR makes being alone perfectly fine and combined with the low sex drive I feel little need to meet people which is not good.,1 +Started feeling the effects after 5 days or so .,0 +"The sexual side effects were supposed to be countered by the Welly, Didn't happen.",1 +"ABOUT 7 MONTHS AGO, MY REGULAR DOCTOR CHANGED OUT THE ZOLOFT FOR CYMBALTA.",0 + ,0 +nausea/ weight loss the first month.,1 +But this is the only one that does the trick.,0 +"After 2 weeks I had terrible acid reflux which I NEVER had before, constipation, stomach ache 24/7, then rectal bleeding which scared the heck out of me.",1 +I can tell I get less angry at things and sometimes less sad - the only complaint is not being able to express sadness.,1 +"Increased fatigue, insomnia accompanied by increased nighttime anxiety, brain zaps, crying spells.",1 +This medicine has saved my social life.,0 +Having trouble falling asleep and staying asleep already.,1 +I love Zoloft because of the very few side effects and its effectiveness in treating my anxiety and depression.,1 +"It was mild enough that I could switch the dosages when I had a bad ""phase"" (maybe SAD?)",0 +I have not had to increase my dosage as of yet.,0 +I felt dead on this stuff.,1 +Irritability.,1 +Just make sure you consider whether or not they are worth it for you.,0 +"sexual side effects, nausea, drowsiness, ""brain zaps"", dizziness, weight gain.",1 +"This can all be reversed in about three hours by taking an EffexorXR (150), But.",0 +I think it is the worst thing I have ever taken - for almost a year I have tried to take it hinking it would help or blaming my body for the effects and now I have come to realise it is this drug / poison.,0 +"I experienced minor headaches, dizzienes and nausea for about 3 weeks period after my final 5mg.",0 +I'm going to continue taking it in hopes that I will see improvement over the next 3 to 4 weeks.,0 +It has worked for my depression but the Dr. told me that it would help my RLS.,0 +I have aches and pains as if I have the flu.,1 +Sleepless nights also with vivid dreams in the first week as well.,1 +"Insomnia, irregular heartbeat, anxiety times 1000, suicidal depression.",1 +"night sweats, very cool sexy vivid dreams, dizziness if I miss a dose, nothing serious compared to the good feeling I have when I take it regularly.",1 +Lets all remeber to pray for our country and the economy.,0 +"He seemed reluctant, but went along with it.",0 +Take 150mg in the am.,0 +The improvement in mood and outlook feels perfectly natural.,0 +"all those side effects went away though after a couple weeks and now it just makes me really gassy and i think my vision has become a little more blurry, the gas is very innoying though even at night when im in bed with my boyfriend its really uncomfortable but i took an over the counter pill for gas relief and it seemed to work.",1 +"I could not even lift my head up because of how depressed I felt, and it scared me.",0 +"unfortunatly, it lost its effect after 9 yrs, and i am searching for something else that will be as effective.",0 +I have been taking meds for 6 years to treat anxiety and depression.,0 +"after taking just 2nd low dose sent my anxiety through the roofracing thoughts,didnt sleep on it plus a volcano of negative emotions racing inside me.",1 +For me this had the lowest side effect profile of any medication I have ever had.,1 +I asked doctor about supplementing Zoloft with Trazadone(antidepressant) and he agreed.,0 +"Nausea, a lil.",1 +Weight gain.,1 +Started Effexor two years later and Dr. warned if stopped it might not work again.,0 +"Yawning, which subsided after a few weeks.",1 +"Also, headache,crying, insomnia, and I can't tell you all the side effects.",1 +this is a huge decrease.,0 +It's like not having emotions at all.,1 +"Weight gain, fuzzy head.",1 +I lost 25 lbs in 3 wks.,1 +Before taking effexor I had severe depression & anxiety.,0 +Crying bouts resume at the slightest provocation (Ask my family about the time I started crying over the breakfast tabl.,0 +"i have noticed increases in my headaches, the front of my brain burns and i've noticed an increase in suicidal thoughts and anxiety.",1 +By the way withdrawing is A BAAAAAD.,0 +This medication works wonderful for me.,0 +It took about 14 days for the drug to kick in.,0 +it probably saved me.,0 +Absolutely no libido or orgasms.,1 +Clumsy and at first gave me tons of energy but I think that was the increased anxiety.,1 +At no point did it do anything to stableise or elevate my mood.,0 +"After a month I was upped to 60 mg. A week later I started getting agitated easily, my hair is shedding way more than usual.",1 +"Tried paxil, celexa, buspar, and depakote.",0 +lol,0 +Finally the third Cardiologist said it was the Zoloft and took me off.,0 +Reduced dose now to 30 mg and already feel myself coming alive.,0 +"My anxiety levels are down,I'm calm,mental clutter is gone,sleeping better.",0 +since i started taking cymbalta i've found that no food sounds desirable and i keep waking up in the middle of the night.,1 +difficult sexual arousal. ,1 +"I waited until the weekend to start, just in case problems arise, glad I did.",0 +"Now I can think and read, and that's everything.",0 +Vivid dreams but not nightmares.,1 +"Let me tell you, _do your research first_.",0 +Has been helpful for the most part.,0 +I took Cymbalta because I was out of Lexapro.,0 +I have actually woke up and wanted to cry.,1 +"Sweating,Heart Papitations, Headache,dizziness,sore throat,very cold,Major flushing feelings in my head,Dizzy feeling,Flue like symptoms,High degree of shaking and nervousness ,bleeding in stool,throwing up.",1 +I have a problem with insomnia anyway so I haven't made a decision to start taking it in the morning yet.,1 +I wouldnt put this drug aside because of what you hear.,0 +My dosage was increased earlier this year after a traumatic episode and I found the dizziness to be worse.,1 +"tremor (especially in hands), zombie feeling at too high a dosage, tiredness, lack of energy, numbing.",1 +Initially constipation but it went away after a few weeks.,1 +I am glad I did not give up when the first meds failed.,0 +I am better an ever and so is my mood.,0 +"This is a very powerful drug and anyone that takes it needs to decide what is important, the drug works but it is a seriously strong drug and has many many crazy side effects.",1 +The side effects were like living a second version of my personal hell.,1 +"I'd rather be normal sized and anxious than overweight, taking BP meds and insulin medication!",1 +"Early on, naseau and sleeplessness.",1 +"On the whole, this drug has helped very much.",0 +I was completely depleted of all energy.,1 +Withdrawal is difficult and unpleasant.,0 +Was on Prozac 20mg and it was making me more depressed.,0 +"bruise easily, terrible joint pain, still have days that I have no desire to get out of bed.",1 +Note that this happened at the onset of taking effexor and I had no warning of this type of side effect.,0 +I could sleep two days straight and still feel tired.,1 +"Due to my depression, I am always fatigued so that part doesn't bother me.",0 +ago.,0 +This month I did not even know I was about to start!,0 +I am pushing the people who I am closest to away.,1 +Really I only wash my hands like 100x a day now.,0 +"Even with the side effects, which aren't too bad and more just annoying, I can deal.",1 +I took Lexapro for 3 days in 10mg doses and had severe side effects immediately.,1 +It took months to settle in with this drug but it was so worth it.,0 +"I initially had exacerbation of restless legs, which went away over time as I adjusted to Cymbalta.",1 +otherwise changed my life but cannot live fat!,0 +"I have been on Avanza (60mg) for about 18 months, and the doctor recently recommended adding 75mg of Efexor in the morning, and reducing the Avanza to 30mg at night, First day (Wednesday) was fine, second day (Thursday) i started getting anxiety attacks every couple of hours, leading up to around lunchtime when i found myself to be extremely agitated and in a permanent state of anxiety, the likes of which i have never experienced before .",1 +"Sweating, clenched jaw, teeth grinding, sleep disorder (fall asleep quickly, sometime insomnia, Nausea.",1 +"Started at 10 pmg, Felt better within a week.",0 +"dry mouth, slight rash, headaches early on, slight fatigue, delayed ejaculation.",1 +Really worked great on my general pain & depression.,0 +"I would recommend Lexapro, o",0 +I also have a lack of motivation.,1 +WEIGHT GAIN!,1 +I screamed at her when the microwave oven blasted the scrambled egg!,0 +When I went down to taking none the withdrawl effects were so bad.,0 +"Extremely hard to climax during sex, Severe Depression.",1 +Sweating at night.,1 +My brain is at a standstill.,1 +now that i am feeling bad again i wonder if it would be a good time to try going off because the drop might be less than if i were feeling great.,0 +Am using yoga and chanting to help relax as well.,0 +"Difficulty achieving orgasm, less intense orgasm.",1 +"While motivation rose, I found myself too tired to do anything.",1 +i wish i had been smart enough to do research on effexor BEFORE i went on it .,0 +I have been completely off of Effexor for about 2 weeks now.,0 +"Increased dose from 50 to 75 mg, maybe will increase to 100 mg.",0 +It makes me think it works i guess but I hate the withdrawals.,0 +Shame on the medical community for putting people through this type of misery!,0 +Finally came across Lexapro.,0 +my moods changed i didn't care if i ever got out of bed and i was down right miserable!,1 +"only took it 2 days; had horrible migraine, dizziness, nausea and ringing in the ears.",1 +I haven't been 45 mins.,0 +"sleeping a lot, low energy, sometimes hungry sometimes not, jaw grinding quite a bit, feeling ok then really down unexpectedly, sometimes not able to sleep until 4am, not much feeling down below, want to express myself and cry but can't, dry mouth sometimes, cigarettes don't taste as good, alchohol cravings sometimes, zombie like feeling but this improved on taking med at night.",1 +"At first, all the usual (dry mouth, dry eyes, tight jaw, dizziness, stoned feeling, nausea) but they went away after a month.",1 +Switched to taking it right before bed so will sleep through the tired phase.,0 +"I mean, literally, nothing.",0 +"Felt flat and no interest in life, Didn't make me any happier or less anxious.",1 +"Prior to taking this, I was a trembling, sappy mess who could not think about holding a job.",0 +"first day or two- felt ""out of it"", extreme fatigue, Currently (3 wks), I am having bruising, hair loss, fatigue, can't sleep through the night, increased anxiety when I wake, jaw clenching, and difficulty having orgasm.",1 +If I you have any questions what so ever dont hesitate to e-mail me.,0 +Drowsiness.,1 +Sweating for the first 7-8 months was AWFUL.,1 +Which sucks because it was working really good.,0 +None.,0 +"After taking Cymbalta for about 8 weeks, I felt a lot better mentally.",0 +"extreme dry mouth, to the point where I constantly felt as if something was stuck in my throat which would in turn cause me to have an anxiety/panic attack, decreased appetite, severe insomnia.",1 +I was never one to take any kind of drugs.,0 +It made my anxiety worse and I was quicker to anger than usual.,1 +"I would say my feelings are slightly muted, but in the normal range.",1 +I have been taking zoloft for the past 12 years no side effects changed my life!,0 +I weaned slowly from 150mg to 75 to 37.5 and off.,0 +"Effexor has made a huge difference in my life and when and if I have to come off it, if I experience any withdrawals, well, so be it.",0 +I am more social and have a more positive attitude towards life.,0 +"sleeplessness, vivid dreams, hallucinations, tiredness, muscle aches, fluctuating blood pressure, zoned out, Don't take it.",1 +Quitting this drug was horrible.,0 +I started at 10mg.,0 +I am planning to switch back to Wellbutrin SR as soon as I can get to my doctor.,0 +"Headache still and completely useless, Coffee & tylenol so far- not helping much.",1 +"shaky, weak, felt like I was going to faint if I stood at all.",1 +"Lexapro has helped with my depression, but not so much the anxiety.",0 +"I am also so fatigued that I am sleeping several times during the day, as well as 8-9 hours at night.",1 +The first day I was extremely nauseous and almost fainted when lifting a heavy object.,1 +"since taking cymbalta i av gained 14lbs which i CANT loose no matter how hard i try,im also craving carbs & binge eating which iv neva done b4) i av also found that when training @ gym my joints r weaker & i av 2 wear supports.",1 +"My mood is better, the anxiety is gone.",0 +"Now I get mild headaches, head buzzing or light headedness if I miss a dose.",0 +"Also, spells of dizziness not associated with a change in position (randomly while sitting down or walking, not just upon standing up).",1 +So mostly the weight issue is a big deal.,1 +I already had all the gastro symptoms and hot flashes others have mentioned.,1 +"I've taken Prozac in the past, but the side effects were too much to handle.",0 +I do feel Lexapro helped me recover from the severe episode.,0 +Cymbalta helped my life.,0 +"i quit taking the Cymbalta 3 days ago and I was able to titer myself off the Prednisone and my rash,itching and swelling is so much worse than ever!",0 +I liked that it made me seem emotionally detached events happened that would normally make me burst into tears but with Cymbalta I was emotionally free.,1 +allot of weight gain.,1 +"wight gain, water retention, vivd dreams/ nightmares, crying, shaking, brain tremors or shocks, ( iseriously do not know how to adequtly describe it but it is debilitating), leg twitching, arm twitching, blurred vision, eye strain, think things hapened that really din not!, believe dreams to be true the next day, crying, memory loss, confusion, my husband has no compassion to my withdrawal symptoms.",1 +I really like this drug but am trying to decide if I can put up with the itching. ,1 +It's been so long I can't remember.,0 +Greatly improved my depression in a month or so after fluoxetine only gave a slight improvement.,0 +"Then additional side effects of ""erratic behaviour"" Suicide was successful.",1 +"Zoloft helped balance my mood after about a month, but the mania made my life more difficult.",1 +"not really my self sex drive gone sad things can happen and my tears arent there,my weight gain over the years (5 yrs) 60 lbs now im dibetic and my cholestrol is high in part from being so lazy now from taking this med tried to wean off and i cant do it the side effects are horrible dizzy,my eyes dont work right, nausea.",1 +"After that, just teeth grinding.",1 +"Nightmares, Dizziness, Dry Mouth,Suicide thoughts, Hot flushes,Addictive.",1 +"Have had absolutely no sex drive whatsoever, am completely dead from the waist down, feel like it has ruined my sex drive for life, as even now i have not had it for 5 days, i still feel nothing whatsoever.",1 +"Automatic anxiety occasions (elevator rides, big crowds) now don't trigger automatic responses, which helps a ton.",0 +"I sweated like crazy, I felt even more depressed than ever , I became anti social and my anxiety worsened.",1 +I was hit with a lot of side effects of Cymbalta.,1 +So far so good.,0 +Love.,0 +The biggest complaint I have is the fatigue and loss of sex drive/orgasm and weight gain.,1 +I would NOT recommend taking this medication.,0 +"had a very strange reaction to this drug, one which some people also seem to experience.",1 +"Ever since I have been on it, I have not had one good night sleep.",1 +"This is a hard drug to stick with, I was REALLY sick at first.",1 +I wish it didn't make me sweat more but it's a side effect I'll live with.,1 +"constipation, drastic mood swings, 100% helped my anxiety and panic.",1 +I have gained weight and find it very difficult to lose it.,1 +"I have taken Lexapro successfully in the past and I am thinking about trying that again, regardless of the cost.",0 +"lethargic, unusual dreams, yawning, difficulty reaching orgasm.",1 +"Very sleepy, unable to concentrate, no motivation, apathetic, sexual problems.",1 +"I have a feeling of wellness and contentment; no anxiety attacks, no weight gain, no night sweats - i just feel like my old self - optimistic and upbeat.",0 +Was switched to Cymbalta.,0 +"Dry mouth, sweating, light headedness, but most of these went away after a few weeks.",1 +"For the first couple of weeks, I'd get headaches and have mild nausea after taking the pill.",1 +Emotionally and sexually flat-lined.,1 +This is a great drug with minimal side effects.,1 +Increased suicidality and suicidal ideation.,1 +no over the counter facial lotions washes worked. ,0 +"I was prescribed Cymbalta as a possible alternative to Klonopin, which I have taken for over ten years.",0 +"So after all is said and done, I still have fibromyalgia pain, now even worse it seems, and have a shit load of ER bills.",0 +Haven't started.,0 +"Jaw Clenching, Headache-seems to be fading, Worse Brain Fog than fibromyalgia alone, More Extreme Fatigue, loss of appetite control, seems no help with fibro pain, dry mouth, heart palpitations, urine retention?, edema.",1 +Slightly delayed orgasm and some strange dreams.,1 +Does not happen much and is not noticable.,0 +"nausea at first and clenching teeth,if i am a couple of hours late taking a dose i feel terrible ,sick,faint,shakey,really awful. ",1 +But I have to say that taking the Effexor has made me feel so much better.,0 +Night sweats which I still get occasionally as well as very vivid dreams.,1 +The risks/side effects are not worth the inital relief.,1 +"I see hope for my future, am more social than ever and feel happy for the first time in years.",0 +but now on the brand and hoping it will end some of these affects as my dr. said alot of people cannot take this in other than the brand name so we shall see,0 +Also helped me gain over 40 lbs that won't come off no matter what I do.,1 +"The side effects were most severe going on and coming off the drug, with all but the headaches and nausea staying with me throughout the entire experience.",0 +but i am going down to 10mg again.,0 +"I've lost weight, and feel all my emotions, but don't get into negative spirals anymore.",0 +all was fine (taking it for almost 3 months) but recently noticed I was gaining weight!,1 +"Severe insomnia first week, almost constant nausea, migraines, intense panic first couple nights.",1 +Lexapro is a good drug for anxiety.,0 +"This is a BAD drug, they should have better warnings about the side effects.",0 +"Night terrors, Vivid dreams, Nightmares.",1 +I feel that I don't have passion about anything in my life.,1 +slight nausea and shakiness and feeling very anxious particularly in the morning.,1 +It's potency and side effects can be a nasty surprise for anyone who is taking it for mild depression.,1 +Keep in mind.,0 +I wanted to do nothing but sleep and sleep and sleep.,0 +Have had to increase dosage to 150 mg/day.,0 +then you can open it and remove some beads.,0 +When I first started I loved it!,0 +This gets rid of nausea and lessens the insomnia and dry mouth.,1 +Lost all of my energy.,1 +but that could be due to the depression.,0 +FEEL NUMB ALL THE TIME.,1 +"I know this drug has helped some people, but I only hope you know about the withdrawal before you go on it.",0 +The withdrawal I heard was also a pain.,0 +Total crap.,0 +"Blood pressure is back to normal, cut down on the inderal to 20 mg a day.",0 +"severe migraines, extremely low sex drive, mania, excitability, difficulty sleeping, weight gain, rapid thinking.",1 +"Better than wanting to OD, I suppose.",0 +"Suicidal ideation, weight gain, suicidal tendencies, tingling fingers, dizzy, tremor, insomnia.",1 +"Started off with a low dose, and had to up the dosage til we found what works for me.",0 +Right after i started it my crying spells stopped and suicidal thoughts were gone.,0 +Side effects were terrible.,1 +The Lexapro alone actually seemed to increase my desire to just do nothing and want to be left alone.,1 +Very bad side effects.,1 +"1) Strong headaches for the first 1-2 months, 2) Interest in sex has decreased significantly (50-75%).",1 +Very negative experience.,0 +I have never had stomacal problems prior to efexor until now so I am goin to stop taking it but taping it down I let you know how I recover from my ulcer and the other side effects.,1 +Wellbutrin helped immediately to let me think entire thoughts again (without interruptions in my thinking because I felt so sad.),0 +This med.,0 +This is the worst drug on the market!,0 +I have a long history of depression and anxiety.,0 +The amount of side effects sure made life even less fun than it already was.,1 +Had to have me b/f pick me up and take me to ER.,1 +"Dialated pupils after a few weeks of taking, to the point of blurred vision.",1 +I started at 5 mg and after a week moved up to 10 mg. ,0 +then went suicidal.,1 +I was never clinically diagnosed with depression or anything.,0 +"After taking zoloft, I no longer had an urge to go out and get drunk all of the time.",0 +The help that it has done for me along with counselling out weighs the side effects by far.,0 +I feel really strange but am hoping I even out some after being on it for awhile.,1 +"developed Shortness of breath, fibromyalgia type pain, arthritis pain.",1 +"If zoloft isn't working for you, you should try another anti depressant.",0 +I didnt take cymbalta for long because it was turning me into a worse basket case than I already was.,0 +stayed awake for the first week or so.,1 +Withdrawal is unbearable.,0 +"unable to have orgasm, loss of all emotion, insomnia, forgetfulness, loss of appetite which I don't need.",1 +My head was in an unbelievable fog.,1 +"I have a friend whose husband takes this drug for fibromyalgia and tried to get off it because they can't afford this medicine, but the withdrawal was so bad for him.",0 +"The psychiatrist prescribed Lexapro because I was also having severe mood swings and rage along with the depression, completely stressed out and unhappy.",0 +Quite simply this medication has destroyed my life.,0 +I hope this goes away.,0 +Didn't have depression under control until I added Lithium 300 mg as adjunct.,0 +"I think it worth trying, because everyone is different.",0 +I had never previously carried out any risky suicidal behaviours until after taking zoloft for 3 weeks.,1 +I sat with my head over the toilet vomiting whilst slurring random words and throwing toiletries at the people who surounded me.,1 +It's been about 4 years and I truly feel like a new person.,0 +I'm feeling much more muyself.,0 +the irritablility is less than the irritability I had from PMS before taking zoloft.,0 +not sure on a decrease.,0 +"jittery, disconnected feelings, suicidal thoughts, unable to function.",1 +It has very mild side effects when starting or stopping.,1 +The cravings for sweets are annoying.,1 +I continue to lose weight right now I have lost thirty pounds in about 8 months.,1 +"I am tapering off the drug as I type this, 5mg every other day now and m",0 +I'm just afraid it will eventually render me apathetic and flat the way Prozac eventually did.,0 +"The first 3 weeks of Zoloft (25mg), the anxiety had pretty much subsided (the clenched feeling in my chest was gone!",0 +"I felt instantly calmer from Day 1, and had improvement of bladder urgency/frequency/spasm.",0 +"Over last 6 months: difficulty reaching orgasm (F), loss of impulse control resulting in financial debt, increase in risky behavior, mania, lack of empathy, lack of emotional reactivity (haven't shed a single tear in over 6 months).",1 +"When I first starting retaking it, I had no appetite for about 2 months, but that went away.",1 +"suicidal thoughts, no sexual satisfaction, horrible drug.",1 +I would like to get off but the withdrawl symptoms stop me.,0 +1) After two to three hours vomit 2) Stiff muscles (Lack of oxygen?),1 +this has been a nightmare .,0 +"(of course, the problems i was having were causing those anyways) Now no side effects , occasonal headaches, and jitters, but mostly I feel much much better.",1 +I have been off of Effexor for about nine months and I still experience withdrawl effects atleast once a week.,0 +If you suspect depression.,0 +I have developed an ulcer given the medication is very hard on your stomach and recently had my eyes checked and now I have developed glaucoma (another lovely side effect of this drug) Never did get my sex drive back.,1 +"It may have been placebo effect, but I felt relief from anxiety after my second pill.",0 +"While I have been on Effexor, I have identified side effects like asexuality - also, other sexual side effects; including: Ejaculation problems, and reduced climax intensity.",1 +I feel better!,0 +I have no idea when I'll get back to 'normal'.,0 +I think the Lexapro helps a lot but it seems like something is still lacking in my mental/emotional state.,0 +I still have a hard time getting up in the morning.,0 +"for you to really feel the effects, so try and be patient! ",0 +"When I told her what it did to me, she insisted it could NOT be the drug, insultingly suggesting it was my imagination.",0 +Also lack of sex drive.,1 +"By the way, my counselor says that anxiety can be an inherited trait (my grandmother is on Paxil and my mom NEEDS to be on something).",0 +"no sex drive, weight gain, o",1 +It seems side effects people report depend on the reason they are taking the medication.,0 +"By the end of the day, however, I crash.",0 +"Night Sweats, decreased sex drive, headaches, weight gain, fatigue, jaw clenching.",1 +More easy going.,0 +"Today is my first day of from the medication after my doctor took it away, I feel human again!",0 +"The first week or so I felt a little weird but once the medication kicked in, it was great.",1 +i have not started taking this yet.,0 +I am only on 37.5 mg of Effexor XR and have taken it for 6 days.,0 +"felt like i was inside screaming and nobody could hear me, teeth grinding, sweating like mad, hot hot hot, weight gain, headaches and general feeling of tiredness.",1 +"it caused some insominia, i also felt like i was haviing brain buzz and ringing in my ears.",1 +I was shaky and could not sleep.,1 +I was so excited to start it as I was on Effexor for years but it had negative effects on my BP.,1 +"Oh, and did I mention the vivid dreams and nightmares.",1 +"First 10 days were HORRIBLE, like a looong panic attack with anxiety/nausea.",1 +I'm on 225mg a day and this drug is the only one that has ever worked for me.,0 +Anxiety is gone but still feel down. ,0 +"Constipation, get some strange feeling in the head at times like nothing ever experienced, fatigue, weight gain.",1 +"It took me a day and a half to finally sleep, and I couldn't eat or drink anything until around 9:00 this evening (juice and some crackers).",1 +I stopped taking it because I missed having orgasms and was sick of the weight gain and fatigue.,1 +"(Also, I am now on Elavil and it has helped me more than anything my doctor's have ever tried.)",0 +No nausea/dizziness like I experienced yesterday and the 7 days prior.,1 +"My wife can tell when I am off of it, as little things will drive me nuts: barking dogs, annoying habits of others, other drivers, belligerent children.",0 +I disagree.,0 +"I have the opposite of the ""weight gain"" problems as I seem to be losing weight now.",1 +I tried to go to work but could not.,1 +It increases the effect of alcohol and caffeine so I have to be careful with those.,1 +"The loss of appetite I wasn't sure to attritube to the Cymbalta because I'm a finicky eater anyway, but I couldn't function with only 5 hours of sleep in 10 days.",1 +I am having strong flu like symtoms but I am coming off of effexor and that has always been hardcore.,1 +"Extreme dry mouth, unable to reach orgasm.",1 +Exausted too!,1 +My hair started falling out by the handful.,1 +"I also have increased sex drive, more pronounced PMS, and odd sleep patterns.",1 +I want to feel even if it is depression.,1 +"Cymbalta is a living nightmare, avoid it.",0 +I'm not sure how many days I could take of this.,0 +This is nasty-nasty stuff and I would not recommend it to anyone.,0 +Woozy feeling when I miss dosing.,0 +"increased anxiety, nausea, loss of appetite and weight,heartburn, diarrhea, eye twitching, jaw clenching, insomnia, have to take xanax in order to take Zoloft.",1 +"Then I just couldn't handle the headaches it caused, so my doctor lowered my dose gradually over the last two years or so.",1 +"no sex drive, insane sweating, dizzyness, heart palpatations.",1 +"The pros far outweigh the cons, and I've found this drug to be very good for a drug-sensitive person like myself.",0 +"Mild constipation, difficulty maintaining an erection and delayed orgasm.",1 +i have tried many times to slowly come off it with no success.,0 +Also had no sexual desire.,1 +I have been off this drug for almost 3 years and I still feel like this!,1 +The only side effects I get is night sweats.,1 +I also have had a lot of gas and some constipation.,1 +"And while I am now very slow to anger, I am slow very slow to excite.",1 +"The excessive sweating seems to have stopped about a week ago, sex drive has been as great as always, and right now at 5mg Lex with 1 1/2 mg of Alprazolam a day.",1 +AVOID IT AT ANY COST!,0 +"When I whent fron efexor xr 75 to 150 inmeditely i start feeling very warm in the stomag and sleppless in about three weeks after I en up in the emmergency room with 57 of hemoglobin concentration out of 135 they have to give me 4 bags of blood and I stayed there for three days, during those days I did not take the efexor but on the fourth day when I came out of the hospital I was feeling very dizzy so I took the efexor again with food in the morning and later I eat two kiwis and I felt so much pain in the ulcer caused by efexor that I had to drink a lot of milk to calm down the horrible pain.",1 +After that came a week or two of nail biting and jitters (like when you drink a quad shot of Starbucks coffee) No negative sexual side effect - delayed ejaculation like every one else.,1 +"I also take trazadone with the cymbalta, does anyone have experience with these two drugs together?",0 +"Decreased appetite, weight loss, sexual side effects (inability to orgasm), insomnia.",1 +"My mom tried taking it and she broke out in hives, or hive-like bumps all over her body.",0 +"The side effects that I experienced were not debilitating, the only one that bothers me is the waking through the night but I think that's improving now.",1 +I haven't had this much confidence and self esteem in so long.,0 +I need something that helps me with all those things.,0 +I have a general feeling of malaise; I also had some insomnia when I first started taking it (that was resolved by taking in the morning instead of the evening).,1 +Heart burn.,1 +"I have had positive comments from family and co-workers about my overall improvement in attitude, patience, moods etc",0 +"There's no doubt that Effexor XR saved my life, however long-term use is not the best.",0 +"it would be worth your while to do some research about neurotransmitters, etc I have found that medical trends fail to recognize how dangerous these medications can be; the medical community is saturated by mass loads of marketing by pharmecutical companies, which I think is sad because any seller WILL MOST LIKELY NOT state side effects, in an effort to sell the drug.",0 +"Another thing that bothered me, well a lot, was I was unable to orgasm.",1 +showering at night became useless.,0 +"Nauseaus and racy heart, Blurred vision.",1 +But it works great for my depression,0 +"Night sweats, constipation, taking longer to climax during sexual intercourse.",1 +i also get crazy drunk with less alcohol.,1 +"I do not see the point of taking Lexapro-type SSRI's for anxiety, which was my primary issue for taking it.",0 +"hot flashes, drowsy all of the time, brain fog, inability to concentrate, loss of sex drive, weight gain, constipation, muscle cramps, eye floaters.",1 +high blood pressure and high pulse.,1 +so sleepy on 60mg 1x/day.,1 +Constipation was awful with a large weight gain that put me out of all clothes save sweats.,1 +"When I have gone off the medication, the depression and anxiety is so awful.",0 +I started S/I again for the first time in years while on Effexor.,1 +barely any anxiety or major depression symptoms which has made it easier to deal with the physical side effects.,1 +Also feel like I'm in a cloud allthe time.,1 +awful awful medication.,0 +I have gained about 15 lbs in 6 months.,1 +"THEN, I STARTED NOTICING THINGS HAPPENING ALL AT ONCE.",0 +"Vivid dreams, which can be rather interesting.",1 +I now know why there is a black box warning on these meds.,0 +My benefits definitely outweigh the side effects,1 +Withdrawal symptoms always happened within 24 hours of missed dose.,0 +"blurred vision, sweating, shaking, nausea, vomiting, brief paralysis, tingling in extremities, fainting, heart palpitations, insomnia, severe abdominal pain, auditory/visual hallucinations, dizziness.",1 +Stopped and started again and now experienced this dryness.,1 +I tried to kill myself witch mad no sense since I LOVE MY LIFE!,1 +but am now on celexa (which has way less side effects) and clonezipam for panic attacks.,0 +Really has helped my depression and know that I am a much happier person taking it but I HATE the weight gain and constipation.,1 +Decreased appetite.,1 +"WEIGHT Gain, complete loss of libido.",1 +"It works well with both the OCD and the depression, but I feel numb: nothing seems to affect my mood in good or bad ways.",1 +Have gone back on Eff after 6 month break.,0 +I made a suicide attempt while on it and it is my opinion it was the cause that pushed me over the edge.,1 +"fuzzy ""high"" feeling, sleepy, can't stop yawning.",1 +"Oh, sex life; try a roller coaster ride to work you up to it .",1 +So he bumped me up to 15) That was the magic number.,0 +"I become very irritable, not to mention I experience brain zaps similar to paxil withdrawal.",0 +"nausea, gases, diarrhea, eructation, o",1 +"After 3 months on Lexapro and therapy, I will be switching to something else .",0 +I felt like I was going through heroin withdrawls (not like I know what that is like).,0 +"Constipation, vivid dreams and restless sleep patterns.",1 +I kept getting fired.,1 +"soon after take it, knocked out feeling, extreme yawning, foggy brain, and absolutely no sleep at 3 consecutive nights even with sleep aid!",1 +"Since starting Lexapro about a month ago, have found myself extremely constipated, which I am assuming is a side effect.",1 +it's the FIRST antiDep i've tried where there's a POSITIVE difference!,0 +This has worked very well for me.,0 +Yawning every minute or two.,1 +Freaky dreams for a few months after starting it.,1 +I now have to brush my hair outside by the trashcan and I only wash it twice a week.,0 +It worked well but then I decided to try and get off of it .,0 +I dare you!,0 +completely destroyed what was left of my sex drive (and almost my marriage).,1 +"However, my sex drive is still Ok. No notable weight gain, as I have pushed myself to work out still.",0 +"I was the 'old', good me again and I have been better ever since.",0 +"At one point I was certain that I was having heart failure, because my entire body seized up and I could not move or speak.",1 +"used to be so depressed and anxious, that I didn't want to leave the How.",0 +"agitation; hostility; suicidial thoughts; increased pain; increased depression; muscle spasams in legs and feet; dry eye; increased blood pressure; heart palpitations; increased anxiety, etc Switched to Cymbalta because of claims that it helps with pain.",1 +"It helped my depression tremendously, but sexual side effects are severe in my case.",1 +I wasn't able to sleep at night because I always felt like I was going crazy.,0 +a little sleepy in the afternoon in the first few weeks.,1 +"I've always had bouts of depression, I have a history of major anxiety to the point of it being physically painful, and developed OCD over time.",0 +"Sexual dysfunction is always better than death, though, so it's been no contest for me, DON'T QUIT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE SIDE EFFECTS.",1 +"I sleep at night, no nightmares and my dreams are , REALLY VIVID as I am a VISUAL ARTIST.",1 +First day nausea.,1 +I would not suggest taking this medication.,0 +Now I take a small dose of Lexapro and feel much happier and normal than I used to in addition to having little to no side effects.,0 +Anxiety is still there.,0 +"Delayed ejaculation, vivid dreams.",1 +"increased sleepiness, intense weight gain.",1 +"Possible side affect was reduced sexual desire, but my doctor said this could be just from the depression and stress itself.",1 +"i started at 5 mgs, felt like i was on speed for the first few days.",1 +"It was brilliant for 2 weeks, except for some queasiness.",1 +"fatigue and sleeping around 15 hours a night and still tired, Loss of sex drive and erection problems when medication doubled from 75mg to 150) eye site deteriated to the point I thought i needed glasses but once I took myself off the drug eye site returned to normal.",1 +"Restlessness, anxiety, persistent thoughts of death and suicide.",1 +Weight Gain.,1 +"HOrrible migraines but i have had migraines since early childhood,This medicine just caused more frequency and higher degree of pain with headaches,Best medicine for depression that i had ever taken and worked instantly.",1 +Headaches for a couple of days of withdrawal.,0 +i've not even been taking it for a week but i dont know if i can deal with the side effects.,1 +very sleepy the first week and the first week of increased dose.,1 +"Yesterday, I went in to my doc & said please, please dear God, put me back on Zoloft.",0 +Also eat less meat - kind of grosses me out now .,0 +Moved up to 50mg.,0 +It's like a narcotic.,0 +"Diarrhea, inability to orgasm, loss of sexual pleasure, significant weight gain, withdrawal was not pleasant.",1 +I don't recommend this pill,0 +"my ONLY side effects have been listed, but mainly unusual vivid dreams.",1 +"I felt like as if i am watching my life from outside, unbearable pressure and headaches in the evening, non stop nausea, no appetite, hot flashes and shivering, clamsy hands, tingling on arms and legs,electric shocks, disorientated,loss of concious memory, nigtmares, fatigue, more depressed than ever,no sex drive,i felt like a zombie in hell.",1 +I'm very thankfull that there is help like zoloft out there.,0 +I went from 60mg to 120mg and there was no lift.,0 +"For the 1st 2 weeks, I had pulsating headaches, and had nausea.",0 +"I am now trying to cut back and on top of all those symptoms I am very itchy, shaky and miserable.",1 +I have been on this medication for 11 weeks today and my mood began to dip about two weeks ago.,0 +Help?,0 +"Lilly knew, failed to disclose, and lied about the number of patients reporting adverse effects upon stopping.",0 +It has helped me so much and the depression and anxiety are gone.,0 +"Sometimes ringing in my ear, or lightheadedness.",1 +insomnia!,1 +I took zoloft for years with no problems.,0 +everything I mentioned to the point where I can't function.,0 +When I first started Cymbalta (30mg) I had a major decrease in my appetite and a lot of trouble sleeping.,1 +My boss is checking on me.,0 +My weight has been the same during the entire time I have been on Cymbalta.,0 +Day 6 I went to 10mg.,0 +"Reduced sex drive, insomnia,.",1 +"that was ok for about 3 days then i started having constant panic/anxiety, as well as crying a lot at innappropriate times.",1 +I have recently switched to Cymbalta but I would go back to Lexapro if need be.,0 +Dropped to 37.5 mg but having trouble coming completely off.,0 +Worst side effect of this med is insomnia.,1 +Dry mouth.,1 +"I am down to 37,5mg/day and hope to be completely off in about a month.",0 +The withdrawal was awful.,0 +Really I haven't noticed any side effects when taking it but a bit of sleepiness initially.,1 +I started on 10mg and continued to have anxiety so the dosage was increased.,0 +"It has made my life bearable, but introduced new problems which I never had before.",1 +weight gain and sleepiness .,1 +Severe palpitations and irregular heartbeat.,1 +While I have read that it has helped many people.,0 +"Kind of a relief from racing thoughts, but scary because I might as well be in a coma.",1 +dizziness when standing after bending down.,1 +Saved my life.,0 +"It causes heartburn if I take it and lay down, I find that I prefer to take it in the morning anyway for best results with me.",1 +I don't recommend it.,0 +"Increased sex drive, reduced appetite,neck pain.",1 +I felt like I existed- monotone.,1 +"However, I felt no better in regards to my depression.",0 +"But in the past month, things have a taken a turn.",0 +"The depression lifted a bit but the anxiety, head pressure, dizziness, insomnia were unbearable.",1 +It has worked wonders for me.,0 +"I knew there was something wrong with that, so I spoke to a psychologist and he prescribed me lexapro.",0 +"the emotional numbness as affected me most as im @ risk of losing my partner who as bin there 4me thru it all but i just av no feelings & i dont seem 2 care how much i hurt him,i also feel like ill lose my friends & family if im not careful.",1 +I have been on and off Zoloft for 5 years and found that staying at a dose of 25mg each morning is the best.,0 +I chose the opposite path: I tapered off both Lexapro and Wellbutrin and am focusing on nutrition and exercise to keep my mood steady and generally positive.,0 +"I can get tired and spacey in the afternoon when it kicks in, but I gladly take the med because it has given me my life back.",1 +I am trying some different approaches to the thinning hair and hope I can solve it.,0 +It has started to affect my job as there are days I just sit and stare at my computer and don't feel like doing anything and just can not think.,1 +"Cymbalta has helped with depression, but I've had better success with much less, unpleasant side effects from other medications, and soon I will be switching back.",1 +One P doc has told me this may be because I had Dysthmia and SAD.,0 +But that part has to come from me.,0 +i would suggest zoloft to anyone who has been diagnosed with depression,0 +"Tired, tinnitus, restless legs.",1 +"good day, bad day, good day, etc.",0 +Thankfully I have a wonderful husband who helped me past this and now sex is just as good or better than it ever was.,0 +Trazadone puts me to sleep in 20 minutes.,0 +intense increase in anxiety and agitation.,1 +Before I would have had a STROKE!,0 +"Initial side effects included period tremors, mainly in my hands, that went away after I had been on the med for a few weeks.",1 +The side effects were almost immediate.,1 +"anyone else having these effects, if so, what was your outcome or did the symptoms go away?",0 +I had less headaches I hate that I had a reaction to it and my doctor took me off of it.,1 +The side effects are worse than the benefits.,1 +"Irritability, extreme hosility if I went up on higher doses.",1 +"4-5 weeks into 60 mg I started to have extreme numbness & tingling on my right hand, arm, side, shoulder blade.",1 +Instead most seem to be getting worse.,0 +had been terribly tired for months.,1 +I've only had a slight reduction in my ability to concentrate.,1 +"No one seems to understand why this happens, so embarrassing, even family mystified.",0 +"My knees shake a bit and my dexterity seem a little impacted going down stairs, but it's worth feeling normal again.",1 +"Then again, with Xanax and Lexapro, I suppose anyone would be.",0 +Had descended to an all time low in self-loathing.,0 +and reassembling the capsule.,0 +I lost a job spiraled into depression and anxiety.,0 +Is it worth it?,0 +Other than that it has helped enormounsly with my depression.,0 +"I think it did make me sleepy because I was constantly napping, but that may also partly have been carried over from when I was depressed and unmedicated (I slept to avoid how I was feeling).",1 +"Dizziness, nausea, headache, buzzing noise in head.",1 +Lack of interest in sex ruined my marriage.,1 +"I have missed so much work because I can't even drive most days, let alone function in an office.",0 +My appetite has lowered significantly since being on higher dose.,1 +This medication does more harm then good.,1 +PLEASE I MEAN PLEASE BEWARE OF THIS MED.,0 +"I began to get twitches that felt like bodily electricity, which was not only startling and uncomfortable, but also led to me developing an incapacitating social anxiety that used to be only nominal, and i still retain a modified form of the latter two side effects to this day (it's been a year and a half).",1 +i started on 75mg and made my way up to 150) i may have gone too fast though becuase i got numb in my face and hands with tingles that sometimes would move up my arms and shoulders.,1 +It almost made me feel like a care-free kid again.,0 +I feel that a lot of the side effects that I have are from the RSD not the Effexor XR.,0 +"nausea, tremor. ",1 +Each time I switched drugs I had to stop completely to start the other.,0 +"2 weeks later the anxiety had increased into panic, the Dr. had me skip a day then start back at 2.5 mgs daily.",1 +I have been on pazil for 7 yrs.,0 +so I take Trazadone at night to help me fall and stay asleep.,0 +These subsided for me after about a week previous times i've been on it.,0 +Follow your doctor's instructions for reducing and hope for the best on this one.,0 +"so far, seems to be helping keep my mood more stable but I do notice a kind of deadening of emotions- I know that was a concern of mine before when I took it.",1 +No sexual side effects!,0 +Horrible Horrible Horrible,0 +"5'3"" - was 125 now 100 even.",0 +"Also, a marked reduction in sexual response and sensation.",1 +I am trying to get back into counselling now.,0 +"I still sometimes feel unmotivated on waking up in the morning, but I don't want to increase the dose above 75mg because of the anorgasmia, and the potential difficulties in eventually quitting the drug.",1 +Initially experienced loss of appetite & weight loss.,1 +"Cymbalta did what I needed it to, for the most part-it gave me concentration, the ability to stay awake, and improved my mood greatly.",0 +"A floor under my feet beneath which I shall not sink This means that I'll still have good days and bad, but I know i have the security of an emotional ""floor"" beneath my feet.",0 +It's a very good drug.,0 +"I have had some weight gain,however my weight normally changes based on the time of year.",1 +"I feel calmer, That's all good.",0 +I was really affraid to take zoloft even though I took it before but good think I did.,0 +"I had never experienced a fatigue like that before, and it can be very dibilitating.",1 +"When I'm happy, I'm fantastic.",0 +I'm starting Effexor now and I hope that will help.,0 +"Weight gain, decreased enthusiam/energy to do things.",1 +Took 1 50mg tab at 10pm and woke at 1am feeling weird.,1 +"Bad: Nauseated and jittery for the first few days, like a sugar crash or a caffeine high, Good: I am sleeping like a baby for the first time in years.",1 +"After a few weeks on Zoloft it was amazing to me the way I felt (that is , not constantly depressed).",0 +"Much less pain, a little headache now and then.",1 +I took Lexapro once and it majorly screwed me up.,0 +Be careful of taking this if you have bipolar disorder!,0 +"jaw-lock, muscle tightness, dehydration and dry mouth.",1 +I have also had night sweats on a few occasions.,1 +lower doses helped me more than higher doses,0 +I believe that this medication saved my life. ,0 +no orgasm during sex.,1 +"No discernible effect on the depression after 8 weeks at recommended therapeutic dosage of 60 mg/day, at which point we decided that due to the already-present undesirable side effects, it would be a bad idea to try increasing the dose further.",1 +Hard time focusing and if I miss dose look out.,1 +I have never in my life had such a hard time getting motivated (even with anxiety and depression).,1 +I stopped taking Zoloft because I was still having several months out of the year when I felt like it wasn't helping - I had no motivation and just wanted to sleep all day.,1 +At one point I wanted to kill myself.,1 +i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.,0 +But about a year later I tried others and could tolerate them much better (Such as Lexapro and Prozac.).,0 +"Well, like I said, it's getting a little better everyday.",0 +I had terrible panic and anxiety.,1 +"I feel like right side of my brain is numb, neck hurts horribly, and I'm short winded.",1 +Currently 50mg Zoloft and 125mg Trazadone.,0 +I couldn't keep my head up walking down the street because I though,0 +"for the first 2 weeks, ""jittery"", and tired in the day, but these went away totally, still sexual dysfunction.",1 +"weight gain mostly and i think my dose is too high, when i was first put on it it was just 75mg and i have gradually increased it to 300mg sometimes - now i think this high dose has caused me to have an excessive appetitte.",1 +"Not sure if Lexapro really helped with my depression and anxiety, fortunately have a good therapist and positive environmental changes.",0 +"I stuck with it, and I am very glad I did.",0 +"I thought this was supposed to help depression, I think it made it worse!",0 +My only worry is about weight gain.,1 +"It's not exactly a pleasant feeling and I hope that it'll pass, as I am not interested in remaining a semi-zombie-there are lots of things I want and need to do in my life.",1 +"Now I feel I am paying too high of a price in terms of my health and future, and I am going to discontinue taking it, very slowly.",0 +"Here- sometimes I felt more depressed, lethargic, and would get upset at things that normally wouldnt upset me, or felt too ""whatever happens is fine"" Went back down to 50mg 2x a week, 25mg5x a week.",0 +Disturbed about the major joint discomfort in my wrists.,1 +I have noticed that alcohol has a stronger effect on me now.,1 +Within 45 days of starting Zoloft I gained 50+ lbs I started having sever chest pains.,1 +"Low dose (20 mg) One weird side effect I had was an occasional feeling of heaviness in my calves that gradually increased and became painful, almost like the blood was pooling in my legs.",1 +"Irratability,severe depression,crying a lot,dramatic mood swings.",0 +stopped using lexapro for 4 months or so and became extremely depressed again.,0 +"First three days nausea, mild trembling feeling, no appetite.",1 +If life was better off the meds than perhaps you didn't need them as bad as others do.,0 +Without it I would still be counting every single footstep and rechecking EVERYTHING in my apartment.,0 +"I feel that it IS still working for the joint pain and somewhat for the depression, however, not as well as it was and I'd rather not increase the dosage.",0 +"The sweating stopped, I still have diarreha, and nausea and pain all over my body.",1 +Pain in left arm as well makes me nervous.,1 +"I firmly believe that it should not be approved for medical use unless some method of effective test is made to make sure that it won't worsen your state while you're on it, but even more importantly, after you get off of it.",0 +no lose of sex drive.,0 +"it is alot easier for anxious/depressed people, like most of us on this sight are/were to some degree, to report negative feedback.",0 +i either wanna go out or stay in bed.,1 +"Sleepy, constipated, unable to orgasm, felt ""out of body"" most of the time.",1 +"I know your not suppose to drink when on these meds, but I honestly feel the dull boring mood this drug created for me drove me to.",1 +"the first time i used effexor was 4 years ago and it caused me to lose about 10 pounds, but i became pregnant and switched to zoloft.",1 +You should start with a smaller dose and work your way up to avoid more profound side effects.,0 +"If I was able to finally get to sleep, the sleep was not good.",1 +I recommend this drug to anyone who needs help dealing with depression.,0 +Enjoy life however you can with whatever aid you need! ,0 +for some it is different.,0 +"Drowsiness, anorgasmia (which may cause me to add or switch to Welbutrin).",1 +"Wanted to kill myself several times while on this drug, when I hadn't been suicidal before.",1 +My lips become numb.,0 +I do however feel a blunting of my emotional life and I wish that were not the case.,1 +Said it was side effects of med.,0 +"now i either leave them alone, or take them outside to a spot i think they would like - i said it was weird!",0 +Some stomach discomfort occasionally for a few minutes right after taking it.,1 +"Bizarre sensations of profound guilt and regret about incidents from the past (childhood to adult), were constantly re-lived and extremely inflated to say the least.",1 +"I am still having aches, pains, pins and needles throughout my entire body after being off of the Lexapro for a few days.",1 +"NO libido, fo anything/anyone.",1 +This literally saved my life.,0 +I was worried about coming off it so I timed it so I had a week booked off work for it.,0 +I took this because I began to have severe panic attacks and issues with depression.,0 +Gained 50 pounds when I have never been overweight in my life.,1 +Side effects only lasted for a week.,1 +"high cholesterol, sweating, decreased appetite. ",1 +This stuff is like rat poison!,0 +"If the side effects are worse than the depression, you're on the wrong drug.",0 +"After 1 year of taking this drug, I stopped it cold turkey.",0 +I am only on Day 2 of Lexapro and taking 10mg/day.,0 +"Started at 30mg and increased to 60mg Very bad fatigue Week#1 then a little less during Week#2, especially in afternoons.",1 +I tried it because my bipolar manifests as depression for the winter months.,0 +i felt as if i needed to be doing something all of the time.,1 +All medicines have side effects!,0 +They ran entire body scans and told me I was the healthiest person ever.,0 +Woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep.,1 +was sleepy had alot of stomach problems first week.,1 +Every person physiologically is different and processes meds such as Cymbalta differently.,0 +"It's not particularly painful, but it is frequent and uncomfortable.",0 +"Have a support system- family, friends- to help you when you are down.",0 +On day 3 I tried to exercise and began sweating profusely after about 10 minutes.,1 +It seems to be helping for anxiety as well but I also take .5mg of Klonopin twice a day.,0 +Insomnia no appetite anger mania crying spells anxiety.,1 +"i stopped taking the lexapro, the anxiety has lightened a little bit, but the crying hasn't.",1 +then I began to have problems sleeping and started crying easily for no reason.,1 +"I have finally left my marriage, regained my confidence and will to live.",0 +"My fatigue and down time is still present, no suicide thoughts but just NO enjoyment in anything.",1 +Nausea; vomiting; suicidal thoughts; slight schizophrenia; tremors; increased anxiety; agitation resulting in violent thoughts; psychosis.,1 +Had 5 friends pass away from December 2014 to May of 2015 started getting depressed.,0 +"constipation, aching muscles in both legs and fatigue. ",1 +"spaced out, difficulty sleeping, headaches(shocks), night sweats.",1 +"Brain zaps constantly, the shakes, sweating, nightmares, anxiety, muscle spasms, and crying spells, Don't take effexor its not worth the risk of a horrible withdrawal.",0 +and never went insain either.,0 +"I also, agree that if I stop taking the Cymbalta I feel those ""brain zings"" and fuziness,that is withdraw symptoms.",0 +but this is the one i choose since i have to.,0 +like I drank one too many cups of coffee.,0 +"This is a strange med, and I've been on a lot! ",0 +But when I came off it was the WORST experience I felt like I was in withdrawal from a hardcore drug.,0 +Profuse sweating.,1 +BAD sweating!,1 +PLEASE,0 +"Cymbalta, however, has decreased ability to orgasm much less than Effexor or Zoloft, Paxil caused much worse (totally intolerable) headaches.",1 +For those people who do not understand why anyone would take these drugs with all the side effects YOU HAVE NEVER SUFFERED REAL DEPRESSION.,0 +"I was on Paxil for 12 years, but THOUGHT it was wearing off.",0 +"nausea, loss of appetite, trouble sleeping.",1 +teeth grinding trouble sleeping.,1 +Can hardly even read and feel like I'm in a fog or that I'm stoned.,1 +I went from being a disfunctional depressed person to moderatly happy.,0 +Works great for me,0 +Would not recommend quitting cold turkey.,0 +"Needless to say I was discouraged, very fearful and skeptical to try Zoloft for my first time.",0 +their designed to be taken ( WHILE YOU ARE IN THERAPY) not just for casual everday drugs .,0 +"My mood improved but I became ""flat"" and became a recluse.",1 +"Uncontrolable crying, dark thoughts, exploded at anyone who looked at me wrong, gained 40+ pounds within 4 months.",1 +It was a horrible experience.,0 +From what I understand getting off this drug is horrible.,0 +"After the first two weeks, I felt like a new person entirely.",0 +"but i crave pecans, almonds etcIncreased mood SUBSTANTIALLY - although still very reactive around menstruation.",0 +where do i start?,0 +"Night sweating happens about twice a week, and is a pretty small side effect.",1 +To avoid poop-out I have a day off a week.,0 +Doctors did not tell me that I needed to increase my Thyroid medicine as recommended by the manufacturer of the thyroid medicine.,0 +Close monitoring of patient during initial phase of taking drug is vital.,0 +"If you have any of the symptoms above, contact your physician immediately.",0 +"I almost lost everyone in my life that I loved and cared for simply because I let the pain of depression eat away at me and my relationships with others, This medicine's side effects are not as bad as living a life filled with doubt.",1 +"I can feel horribly sick, even just a couple hours late.",0 +Nausea & yawning for 1st month .,1 +"I had a very bad reaction to this, though it does appear to help some, Don't be afraid to tell your doctor what it is doing to you and don't just go along with their ""the side effects will go away.""",1 +difficult in reaching orgasm.,1 +"Mood swings,extreme anger,leg pain just to name a few.",1 +Will try another anti-depressant medication.,0 +it is a blockbuster that will need augmentation with a stronger DRI in order to reach its fullest potential with my unique chemistry.,0 +Then the doctor increased it to 150 mg which made the head pressure worse so I slowly got back down to 100mg.,1 +After 6 weeks or so my sex drive vanished completely.,1 +i recommend the cookies.,0 +"upset stomach, head was foggy but went away after few weeks , nights sweats, loss of memory seems to be ongoing (short term memory).",1 +"In addition, I am more able to cope with life's blows without sinking into the abyss.",0 +"I was unable to carry on a conversation, racing thoughts, room spinning, looked like a zombie, emotionally numb.",0 +"After being hospitalized, my new doctor put me back on the previous AD which I can honestly say saved my life.",1 +no seriously noticeable side effects at 300 mg daily several years.,0 +No real side effects besides a little more lethargy/sleepiness than usual.,1 +"I have insisted on stopping the effexor, and now the doctor is pushing pristiq (the ""new and improved"" effexor).",0 +"Got fat, hated life.",1 +love Cymbalta.,0 +"Lethargy, significant effects on short-term memory to the point it was affecting my ability to work efficiently.",1 +"I was without Cymbalta for about 4 days, and I felt horrible.",0 +What can you live with?,0 +"The first few days felt really great,mood wise.",0 +The first week was hell.,0 +"Inability to gain an erection without significant physical stimulation from partner; even then, orgasm was infrequent.",1 +I would yawn constantly and uncontrollably.,1 +I was suprised to read through the comments and no one elses experienced hairloss.,1 +anxiety. ,1 +for the first few weeks it helped me feel better.,0 +I am waking up every night absolutely soaked in sweat (I can wring out my t-shirt and have drops of sweat coming out).,1 +The user comments for withdrawal were enough to stop me after four days.,0 +"Then I got lazy and wasn't consistent about taking it and whenever I tried to take it again I'd deal with horrible nausea, so I weaned off.",1 +"Tiredness a few hours after taking, ""the munchies"" -> some weight gain, dulled emotions (though this improved with time), slight sexual side effects.",1 +"Before Effexor XR, I tried: paxil, citalopram, sertraline and trazadone.",0 +"I have been experiencing insomnia due to it, but with 25mg of Trazodone, that's evened out wonderfully.",1 +She always had plenty of samples to give out.,0 +"less libido, tired always, sleep a lot, 15 mg, doesnt do much, little more relaxed about problems, maybee I go up to 17,5 mg or 20 mg and I will give it a try the next 2 months.",1 +"extreme fatigue, lack of motivation, wanting to sleep/rest all the time, sweating, hot flashes, weight gain, headaches, short term memory lapses electric shock/brain zap feelings with even 1 missed dose.",1 +"All that changed was that I got fat and unable to poop, neither a known depression cure.",1 +"But again, that stopped after about two weeks.",0 +"I have only been taking it for 6 months on my second bout, but I took it for two years before, and it did wonders.",0 +"dry mouth, anorgasmic At first, strange dreams, meaning very vivid and colorful.",1 +"I am unable to drive on the freeway because of panic attacks while driving, Also, my body fat has been redistributed to my abdomen.",1 +"I stuck with it, and now I am realizing what a sad, pathetic, lonley, afraid, antisocial, hermit I used to be.",0 +Constant bad headaches and nauseau.,1 +"The only complaint I have is that I found myself eating more than usual which caused some weight gain, but none that can't be managed without increasing exercise and eating healthier.",1 +I found this page just now and after reading many comments I had to post my own.,0 +"I wish I had never started taking it, Terrible fatigue, malaise, asthma, lump in lower intestinal wall, sinus problems, muscles bones and joints so sore I cry.",1 +"Sometimes I think the vivid dreaming keeps you from getting quality sleep, However, this medicine has been great-I had anxiety from divorce, new home, new job and dealing with a severely depressed ex-spouse (who is now on Effexor).",1 +"then fine must take in AM, keeps me awake at night, love it, amazing.",1 +"took me three days to figure out the connection, during which I was laying in a darkened room with a migraine.",1 +doctor typically prescribes at much higher dosages to patients.,0 +I went on Cymbalta for my Depression/Fibromyalgia.,0 +"I was social, but that night woke up at 2:15 sweating and in a terrible panic attack(not from a dream) but heart racing, swallowed breath, felt emotionally traumatized.",1 +"At 15 mg, nothing, but depression was not completely under control.",0 +I have not had sex for 6 months which is putting a strain on the relationship.,1 +I take Effexor with the combination of YAZ for PMDD and it has worked for the best.,0 +"I cannot go shopping, people in the store are ""too close to me"" and I become very fight or flight.",0 +"vaginal dryness, decreased libido.",1 +I'm one of those believers who thinks that everyone should take Zoloft.,0 +"Short term: dizziness,nausea,confusion, and headaches for about 10 days or so.",1 +again I'm depressed and ho-hum not to mention I've gained 20lbs I wholeheartedly blame on the zoloft.,1 +My legs were the worst and my left leg felt like it was on fire!,1 +"initial nausea, eventual lack of emotion (both positive and negative). ",1 +that is increased anxiety.,1 +"The side effects I have experienced when MISSING a dose or more are: jittery-ness, dizziness and vertigo, nausea, swells in mood, overall awful feeling.",0 +"nervousness/shakiness, occasional ""electrical zaps"" that so many people report with SSRI's, diahrrea and constipation, the urge to drink more alcohol.",1 +maybe it never will but Im hopeful.,0 +My mood is better I now get excited about things that are good.,0 +I was on this pill at 30mg a day for 7 days before the Dr. told me to take 60mg a day.,0 +"totally constipated, i mean big time.",1 +"So I had to start doing group therapy, and that didn't work.",0 +"Slight headache, upset stomach, decreased libidio but able to climax, slight increase in anxiety in the begining, increased dreaming.",1 +"Discontinued medication, using Motrin to pre-empt headaches.",0 +"Lost some weight, keeps me from eating like I was.",1 +"Also, affects sleep patterns, I'm exhausted earlier, but can't sleep well.",1 +"Now that I've been on it for a while, I get random tics when at rest that aren't severe enough to really bother me.",1 +This medicine is not a magic cure .,0 +"No appetite I went 3 days without eating and didn't realise until my partner was ramming a sandwich down me, now just a smaller appetite and still forget to eat.",1 +"Also feel very happy, confident and a general sense of wellbeing.",0 +"Wake up feeling like I've sustained a beating and feel like a bad case of the flu is coming on, And, those ""zaps"".electric shocks that make me feel like my brain quivers in the forward position for a few seconds longer than my skull does when I turn my head.",0 +takes much longer to climax.,1 +"nausea, headache.",1 +"The diarrhea and sweating really bugged me, though, Surprisingly, this strengthened my libido and orgasms.",1 +just wouldn't go away.,0 +I am tapering off and wished I would have just worked out more at the gym rather than taking an AD.,0 +Extreme Weight Gain 30 pounds.,1 +I had headaches the first few days but those have already gone away.,1 +"As far as the liver problems, the Dr. told me I had a fatty liver.",0 +"This drug has worked really well for my depression, and I feel is worth the side effects.",1 +I am also in cognitive behavioral therapy and I strongly recommend therapy in addition to medication.,0 +seem to have more breakthrough symptoms after 10 years.,0 +It seemed to stop severe depression and helped my mood enough so that with counselling and support I could eventually get on with my life.,0 +shortened attention span.,1 +"Loss of appetite, metal taste in mouth, weightloss, headache, disoriented.",1 +Possibly tiredness/sleepiness (though I've felt that way long before starting Cymbalta).,1 +"I've increased my fiber through my diet -lots of fresh fruit and veggies, that seems to help.",0 +"Rarely do I ever think of suicide, but after two days the thought was almost constant.",1 +They were so bad I would involuntarily turn my head.,1 +Insomnia for the first few days.,1 +Apparently there is a limit!,0 +Only major side effect was inability to achieve orgasm which I personally found intolerable.,1 +"Meth was no problem to quit, Effexor, well, we'll see.",0 +Take it as prescribed and it is your best friend.,0 +"Three years later, I wanted wean off the drug with the help of my neurologist.",0 +I will be asking my doctor to try something else on my next appointment.,0 +not sure if this is going to work.,0 +"I still have down days, and am frequently moody, But, life is better with it than without it.",0 +"Went to 20mg after some really tough life circumstances, Side-effects were unmanageable!",1 +Weird but true.,0 +"Apparently I refused help because I thought they (my parents, and later, the nurses at ER) were trying to poison me.",0 +Thought most side effects would be gone.,1 +But I feel I can say that this drug is VERY ADDICTIVE.,0 +Weight gain; supressed sex drive; lots of sleeping.,1 +"Sexually, I'm stronger then ever.",0 +"Before, I was starting to drink a glass or 2 of wine at night to reduce my anxiety.",0 +"My mind raced at 100 miles a minute, but my body was exhausted, so sleep was slim.",1 +"The first year was great, other than a decreased sex drive.",1 +This really kicked me out of the doldrums quite quickly.,0 +"I'm now in the last stage of withdrawal, and I'm still experiencing the fatigue and dizziness and sexual apathy.",1 +As of today I'm switching to Lexapro.,0 +It worked for my anxiety for a year and then it stopped.,0 +I also had a pleural effusion and was hospitalized for over a day.,1 +TOLD DOCTOR I WANT OFF THIS.,0 +Because of the bleeding I had to go for a colonoscopy and have my stomach biopsied which showed it cause the lining of my stomach was inflammed.,1 +"For the first two weeks I could not orgasm, but that has also gone away.",0 +When I finally went to the doctor and demanded to be taken off of Effexor she started to slowly decrease the dose.,0 +increased anxiety during the afternoon which i dread.,1 +"I feel sluggish,unmotivated,and still have depression,aniexty and pain.",1 +"The desire to just sleep my life away, but not suicidal.",1 +Used to have severe depression now i dont.,0 +Depression and fatigue still there.,0 +weight loss in the 3 weeks I took it.,1 +"Severe chest pain, huge weight gain, onset of fibromyalgia and horrible arthritis pain.",1 +"None, though maybe decreased sexual drive?",0 +I havent been on this long was taking 100mg but cut it in half.,0 +I am able to socialize with people without any anxiety.,0 +I took my first and ONLY dose of Cymbalta (60 mg) at 8:00 AM yesterday after breakfast.,0 +my slowed mindset has prevented excessive worrying which caused my feeling sad and pessimistic in the first place.,1 +I have been on it for 2 weeks and I have finally seen the light.,0 +Could sleep later without restless legs then slept for another 12hrs.,1 +don't use a shovel when you need a screwdriver!,0 +At first I had constipation and lethargy.,1 +I have since reduced dose to 20 mg per day.,0 +I am on effexor now and I'm not sure I'm going to stay on it.,0 +I feel like the weight of the World has been lifted off my shoulders.,0 +"Gained weight, moodswings, wasn't able to sleep at all.",1 +The vertigo is rendering me unable to function in daily life causing me to lose work.,1 +"HUGE costipation, somnolence, loss of libido.",1 +This is great.,0 +"The side effects got to be too much (headaches everyday, problems sleeping, gained 10 pounds, would lose a handful of hair everyday) and I weaned myself off of it, only to experience strange seizure-like zaps in my brain that would last for just a second but were very distressing.",1 +"Side effects included: First month or so: going back and forth from being quite and calm to being extremaly anxious without a reason especially about two hours after taking the doze, Very vivid, weird dreams, occasional nightmares every night for about 2 months.",1 +Libido is low but orgasm is possible.,1 +I take them at night with Trazadone for insomnia.,1 +Now no side effects.,0 +I couldn't tell.,0 +Never again.,0 +"Works for my form of depression, however it has destroyed my sleeping patterns.",1 +I've gained 15 pounds.,1 +"Before taking Lexapro, I was having panic attacks at least twice a week.",0 +Yet i had vivid nightmares that were really horrible and i started to get night sweats real bad.,1 +"is great for me, except for the sexual side affects.",1 +Increased dosage to 15 mg a month ago.,0 +"I have absolutely NO sex drive, but that didn't happen until about a year ago.",1 +It has been 4.5 months and have had no adverse side effects from Zoloft.,0 +I love it!,0 +"It prevents the mood swings I used to have, without making me feel spacey.",0 +"This medication caused a horrible dopamine imbalance, which current medicine can, but WILL NOT TREAT.",1 +"During the time, my children had both left for new careers and college, hence ""empty nest syndrome"".",0 +"My depression was eleviated but I still wasn't myself, even when I went up to 200 mg.",0 +There are 100's of us already that may never be the same again due to Ely Lily's incompetence.,0 +only had side effects in the beginning few days which were hand tremors and couldnt sleep until I started taking the pill in the morning instead of the evening which corrected that problem.,1 +Started taking it after Prozac and (can't remember the name) made my stomach hurt so bad.,1 +Overall this med helped me with my energy levels and fatigue.,0 +"Went back on it after a couple of years of no meds, and it made almost all of my symptoms worse.",0 +been six days so far.,0 +"Other than that, I can't think of a side effect.",0 +I still feel depressed and have negative thoughts racing through my mind so I don't think 50mg is really enough for me.,0 +"ACCELERATED weight gain, initial night sweats, initial sleepiness.",1 +At 37.5mg my depression is controlled.,0 +The following day had increased anxiety and restlessness.,1 +"No matter what happened, I didnt seem to react.",1 +"when I finally stopped taking this stuff after losing five years of my life to it, I now have joint pain that makes it difficult to do anything.",1 +"sexual, no effect on anxiety, still moods swing, still irritable. ",1 +That has always come and left on its own without meds.,0 +"I didn't really have any negative side effects, or if I did, they were very mild (slight ""loosening of the stools"", which was good because I tend to be, uh, constipated all the time.",1 +Slight nausea after taking the pill but nothing noticable after that.,1 +It just stopped.,0 +looking back when i was on cymbalta before it was the happiest i have been in about 10 years.,0 +"I could hardly get out of bed I would have lost my job, because I had already called in to work a bit and was unable to function before I started lexapro.",0 +"Nausea, Insomnia, Constipation, Crying, Dry Mouth, Sexual, ""Speeding"", Worsening Depression, Thoughts of Suicide, Jaw Clenching, Heart Racing.",1 +"Erectile disfunction, delayed orgasm, lack of libido.",1 +Suggest use for anyone who has anxiety in social environments.,0 +I was always hot.,1 +"I had also noticed that it took more to hold my attention than it used to, and I couldn't remember things that happened or stuff people said five minutes before.",1 +A few days later I was in the hospital with bilateral pulmonary emboli.,0 +Then i realized it was just the kind of drug that stopped working.,0 +"Dizziness, Dry mouth, Yawning.",1 +Horrid hot flashes and sweating at night.,1 +Weight loss of about 10 lbs and I'm not complaining about that.,1 +Alert and Zombie.,0 +Strange itchy rash on my skin-scared for life now.,1 +Felt tired and slow all day.,1 +"Anxiety is now though the roof, hands feet sweating, and my memory sucks.",0 +I have only been on 30mg for 4 days and have the extreme runs.,1 +Zoloft is better.,0 +"Withdrawal symptoms are severe, headaches,muscle pains,nausia,sensory problems like electrical shocks,wobbly vision.",0 +just to name a few.,0 +"I have a high tolerence to meds, I also take 2000-3000 mg lortab per day for pain and it just barely takes the edge off.",0 +"Now I take Paxil CR, Trazadone for sleep, Xanax XR and Effexor XR every day.",0 +If you can't handle a dog get a fish.,0 +When I first started taking it.,0 +Gone after 2 weeks.,0 +"decreased appetite, fatigue, maybe a little ""foggy"".",1 +I also had an irrational fear that this drug was going to cause me to 'lose my mind' or have some other horrible side effect that SOOO many people write about on-line.,1 +The intial dry mouth and headache went away in a few days.,1 +"Horrible headaches, brain ""swishes"" or ""zapping"" when I was even a few hours late for a dose, constipation, horrible crying spells when going through withdrawal.",0 +"For me, i noticed within 2 days that the rumination was all but ceased.",0 +"I have been on Lexapro for a while and my doctor took me off and switched me to Wellbutrin because I had gained 18 pounds in 2 months, BIG MISTAKE.",1 +"Frankly, I've had more luck with Xanax added to my regimen than with trying other meds like Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Prozac.",0 +The first dosage was 50 mg and after that increased to 100mg.,0 +"Hungry all the time, Tired, Can't get out of bed, More irritable.",1 +"Poor short term memory, Low motivation.",1 +I awoke on day 4 with nausea and listlessness.,1 +"Had it not been for the one side effect, I'd likely have continued it indefinitely for Fibro Pain & Depression.",1 +"I had never had difficulty withdrawing from other medications previously, and had never found myself addicted to anything, and was suprised to find such a chan",0 +"I like the overall way I feel - not too pumped up but not depressed, but the lack of sleep has led me to yet another failed medication.",0 +I've got more to talk about!,0 +just shrug my shoulders as my living room curtains caught fire from melted heater wire that sparked.,1 +"The only current side effect I have is the night sweats and I do get ""headshocks"" as I call them, if I forget to take my pill on time.",1 +Really very few side effects-I think it's great.,1 +"This medication caused me, like so many other people with bipolar disorder, to freak out.",1 +"After 2-3 months with the Lexapro, I cut back to just Cymbalta, which has worked better than anything else I've ever tried, with fewer side effects.",0 +I continue to take it because I was diagnosed with clinical depression 9 years ago and I don't plan on stopping.,0 +"The nausea is pretty bad normally, so I may try something else.",1 +But by the end of the day I'd b tired and easliy irritated.,1 +"thirsty at times, no labido.",1 +"I had to have a heart cath, echo, stress echo and several other heart test.",1 +"night sweats, insomnia but when I did fall asleep vivid dreams, teeth clenching, decreased motivation, irratibility.",1 +"This has subsided after a month or so, Constipation .",1 +"I handle my kids much better, and for maybe the first time in decades.",0 +"I think more clearly, sleep well, and am more alert and generally am accomplishing more than I have in several years.",0 +Am returning to lexapro after trying pristiq because of said sexual problems.,0 +My first language is not english so bear with my spell.,0 +I was so sick I thought I would die.,1 +"I am able to sleep at night on this drug, my sexual drive is fine, and I don't seem to eat out of stress.",0 +"Constapation, vivid dreams.",1 +Withdrawal similar to heroin withdrawal.,0 +I have only taken cymbalta twice and am going to stop now before my symptoms get worse.,0 +I've been taking Zoloft for a year.,0 +"If I do not take this drug, I become severely, despondent.",0 +"NEVER, NEVER take this drug.",0 +"Vivid dreams, night sweats, extreme lethargy, decreased interest in sex, feeling emotionless, nausea.",1 +The side effects from coming off of this drug are much worse than the side effects of being on this med.,0 +"AND CALLED 911) I started on 10 and I felt very depressed still, actually worse, panicky and extremely anxious, then the pdoc doubled my dose to 20!",1 +"It did not do a lot for the anxiety initially, but I only took 3) The blood pressure issue, however, was enough to make my psychiatrist encourage me to stop.",1 +I was on 100 mg for 3 1/2 years when it quit working as well as it had been.,0 +"feel wired, feel homicidal/suicidal, agitated, no appetite, confused.",1 +it may as well have been a sugar pill.,0 +"Dosed at 35 to start, have built up to 225) I started out taking Xanax to battle my insominia, but it didn't do much.",1 +"I had some fatigue when first starting the prescription, but I no longer notice it.",1 +However after dealing with this acne I'm going to try another med.,1 +"I am working again, doing all the things I need to do and love to do and able to care for my family.",0 +I was able to stop taking it just a couple weeks ago after being on it for 2 years or so.,0 +Psychiatrist disagrees with my approach and says Lexapro is a drug for life.,0 +I would rather live like this though than be in a fog.,1 +I don't wanna be sad but does life really have to be that boring?,0 +"The one and ONLY complaint is this horrible taste in my mouth- tastes metallic, and bitter, a secretion under my toungue.",1 +none.,0 +"Extreme sedation, inability to move, excessive sleeping.",1 +"Light Headedness, Loss of Appetite, Sleeplessness, Dizzy feeling.",1 +"Have many dreams, usually bad, that sometimes can not determine from reality.",1 +Helpful with anxiety.,0 +"Good drug in terms of lack of side effects, specially when compared to other antidepressants, After awhile, the drug just made me numb, I couldnt really feel anything, and there was a desire in me to look for stimulation elsewhere.",1 +I posted back in July after I went up from 1/4 of a pill to 1/2 of a 10mg.,0 +"For the first few weeks I was on it I had intense dreams, some of them unpleasant.",1 +Agressiveness and short tempered.,1 +"constant numbness on the right side of my body, tingling fingers, unexplained extreme yawning, trouble staying asleep, anxiety, accelerated heart rate in mornings, dry-mouth when working out, new sweating that continues hours after working out, constipation, loss of appetite/cravings.",1 +"Suicidal thoughts when I had NEVER had those thoughts before, Super scary.",1 +"I continue to take Lexapro, as I said I am not as easy going if I miss several doses.",0 +"I love the suggestion where a person opened their capsuals & removed a certain number of ""beads"" every day.",0 +"I gradually calmed down and sweated profusely, That said, Lexy ain't all bad.",1 +"The side effects are easily found on the net, so if you are a first timer, be wary of the side effects.",1 +In the beginning I felt rather numb not happier.,1 +LOL.,0 +"If you think giving a depressed woman who has never had a weight problem, an extra 30 lbs to carry around is a good idea you would be mistaken.",1 +I also cannot deal with the sweating.,1 +"It gets a ""4"" because of weight gain and how long it took to work (2 months).",1 +Made my drinking into raging alcoholism.,1 +Am now on my fifth and final attempt to quit.,0 +I haven't noticed any positive changes and the side effects are horrible.,1 +"it helped with my depression and some with my anxiety, but i gained 35 lbs!",1 +weight loss/maintenance.,1 +Started with 37.5mg and now on 225mg.,0 +I never knew in a million years that I would be afraid of myself.,1 +"I guess that's always better than feeling suicidal, right?",0 +Often get restless legs syndrome with Effexor.,1 +only side effects i go through is if i forget to take the daily dose .,0 +"In the very first years, there was difficulty in achieving orgasm, but no ED at all.",1 +Nausea and stomach cramping the first couple of days; was somewhat better if I ate small amounts of food frequently.,1 +it really hasnt made me much happier though.,0 +It really does get better.,0 +5) Still had several months during the year when I was fatigued and too tired to function.,1 +I'm calling the doctor first thing tomorrow morning.,0 +I also had the desire to drink alcohol heavily and got really drunk really fast.,1 +The side effects got better after 2 months.,1 +I'm still unsure about this med.,0 +"I do feel more relaxed and able to handle life's ups and downs, as well as some serious family issues.",0 +"Inability to focus/concentrate, ",1 +"INTENSE HOT FLASHES, PROFUSE SWEATING, particularly severe with stress and when too hungry - can get to the point of soaking, dripping sweat, soaked clothes, bed, chair, car seat, total embarrassment, happens worst at most inappropriate times.",1 +I was also pregnant in the dream!,0 +very tired.,1 +I was also on 200 mg wellbutrin sr 2x day.,0 +Started at 30 I was fine.,0 +I would love to say Zoloft is a life saver but it only slightly helps me.,0 +Had knee surgery while on Cymbalta where it was discovered I have severe osteoarthritis.,0 +When I first started taking cymbalta I would wake up drenched at night from sweating.,1 +Just existed.,1 +(Monthly insurance costs about the same.,0 +"I had 2 nights where I just couldn't sleep, was slightly nautious and my pupils were MASSIVE!",1 +"didnt feel like myself, irritability.",1 +Question?,0 +"If I could go back, I would have never taken this drug.",0 +"May increase dosage again, but I'm concerned about the wooziness.",1 +"The doctor put me on Effexor after miscarrying in my 5th month of pregnancy, but did not prescribe any kind of Grief Therapy.",0 +I still wake up a lot and am lucky to get 4-5 hours.,0 +I would not take this again.,0 +But my blood pressure (which had always been lo or lo normal) rose to 148/80 so I had to discontinue.,1 +muscle and joint pain.,1 +My only complaints thus far are my lack of sex drive and my mood can be a little flat at times.,1 +I tapered down from 75mg very carefully and slowly.,0 +From what I've been reading it sounds like I have a long horrible road ahead of me.,0 +I am going to go to a psychotrist to see if there is something else that will help me. ,0 +Very scarey thought.,0 +I have tried almost every antidepressant and this is BY FAR the worst.,0 +"Today I am happy, NORMAL and loving life.",0 +Have notfound it to be physically addictive nor experienced any side effects.,0 +"Also, my feeling of being able to trust others improved (guess I had mild paranoia that I didnt know I had).",0 +"If you do not feel like this drug is working, or any other AD please tell your Dr.",0 +"I can still do my work, but I want to SLEEP and I wake up groggy.",1 +I sweat so profusely that it has become embarrassing.,1 +I am seeing a specialist for the vertigo and undergoing testing which now I have been diagnosed with vestibular neurontitis.,1 +"I am currently at 2,5) I tried going up to 3. and after 3 days felt like I couldn't stop moving, but was hard to focus so I did things like wash my kitchen floor etc.",1 +"Have had no negative side effects, glad I tried it.",0 +"nausea and fatigue the first week at 30mg, but went away during next week of 60mg Nervous energy.",1 +"My doctor told me it was an easily tolerated medication, Well, not for me, o",0 +"I took this for two months, hoping that the side effects would ease.",1 +I think Cymbalta has made me extremely angry at everyone and has made my obsessive thoughts worse!,1 + This medication saved my life during life events that were beyond my control.,0 +It has become difficult to concentrate on anything or to get motivated to do anything.,1 +This evil drug will not do you any good .,0 +Sometimes prolongs ability to go to sleep.,1 +I cannot have an orgasm to save my life!,1 +"after all that suffering, the baby died.",0 +"Loose stools, gas, some fatigue soon after dose.",1 +I started with 5mg a day and worked up to 10mg a day after a couple of weeks.,0 +Talk to your doc.,0 +I can't even begin to describe how awful it is.,0 +"Sweating, dry mouth, anxiety, brain zaps, severe brain pain, (different from headaches) dizziness, foggy, anger, no sex drive .",1 +After taking this medication 2.5mg for 2 days my feelings of shock and depression are subsiding and I am feeling better.,0 +"I am tired most of the time, still depressed and very sad.",1 +The first few days were like a fog.,1 +"Emotionally numb, wasn't happy or sad.",1 +It seemed to make me worse rather than better.,0 +This morning my jaw felt tight and then I suddenly was hit with an overwhelming feeling of panic.,1 +For treating major depression.,0 +But the wooziness!,1 +"It definitely alleviated my suicidal thoughts and after 2 months, I felt I was in a grey area rather than deep black.",0 +I drank a lot while on this drug and it made me act kinda crazy.,1 +"I took 10 mg for one month and mainly noticed the fatigue as the biggest side effect, once I was upped to 20 mg though all of the other side effects seemed to take hold of my life.",1 +The industry needs more honesty about Cymbalta side effects-it made my liffe a livng hell for 2 years.,0 +"nonstop headache, constipation, racing thoughts, insomnia, annoying muscle twitches at night, and an all-around lack of well being.",1 +Short term memory loss.,1 +Appetite has improved but not to the point were I am emptying the pantry like their is no tomorrow.,0 +weight gain and jaw clenching.,1 +"My final 3 months I was on 5mg, before whenning myself off completely.",0 +There needs to be a class actiom.,0 +"Uneven temperment, lack of patience if I skip several doses.",0 +"Also, my appetite used to be more ""normal"" when I started, but now is back to more random eating/snacking.",1 +My career was at an all time low!,1 +These I can tolerate.,0 +"Now, after taking it for 9 months or so, I still sleep deeply (this can be both a blessing and a curse).",0 +Not a good experience at all for me.,0 +VIVID DREAMS!,1 +"nausea, light headedness, dry mouth, bad taste in mouth.",1 +This medication has made me more suicidal than I used to be.,1 +it's been a few weeks and still have horrible effects.,0 +"As far as mood goes, i didnt feel any real highs or lows, more of a constant comfortable feeling.",0 +This drug has made me feel really stupid and I find myself at aloss for words quite often - simply because I can't think of the right words to use.,1 +"I've gotten used to the side effects, and am sticking with it.",1 +Didn't cry at my own sister's funeral!,1 +I have been on anti-depressants for about 20 years and this works better than anything else.,0 +I had no adverse withdrawal side effects from either Zoloft or Celexa; however Cymbalta was a different story.,0 +I would like to know what other medications those who have some of the horror stories here are on.,0 +The withdrawal process has been very difficult.,0 +heavy sweating.,1 +"I felt like I was on speed, but after my body adjusted it gave me my life back.",1 +Tobacco cravings were rampant.,1 +Side effects after first four months .,0 +"I take the brand medication zoloft, not the generic.",0 +"Took a few years to figure out right time of day to take it to feel ok, evenings work for me (always been 50mg).",0 +This was 5 years ago and I will never forget her stupidity or condescending face.,0 +"i have taken it for 2 years and feel great, very little to no anxiety at all, some weight gain.",1 +"brain ""zapping"" pressure, restless jaw (teeth wanting to grind) and HAPPINESS.",1 +I missed a couple once and the side effects are the worst I have ever encountered from my many medications I have taken over the course of 30 years with this disorder.,0 +I don't cry as much which is a bonus but I do feel like crying at times during the day and I really hoped to be feeling much much better at the 11 week stage.,0 +At the end of 6 weeks I still felt no difference but my best friend and boyfriend both said they noticed a difference and that I seemed to take things in stride better.,0 +"Yet what was even more profound, I found that I was in a state of emotional upset at all times but wasnt aware of it until I stopped the medication 6 days ago.",1 +If I miss a dose-irritability with long and vivid dreams.,0 +"What I hate most though is the clenching of the jaw, That hasn't gone away, Overall, I'm happy with Lexapro.",1 +"After nearly a year, I started to feel very very weak and easily tired.",1 +"I find that I am constantly clenching my jaw and it feels ""funny"" when I yawn or smile.",1 +"Vivid dreams/nightmares, possibly some tiredness.",1 +"I felt like she was ""bought"" by the drug reps that kept giving her the samples and she was prescibing it for her benefit not mine.",0 +At that dosage I was so tired and irritable.,1 +when i was on cymbalta before i was able to lose weight and not feel hungry all the time.,1 +Originally I was put on it with a view to ceasing after 6 months but I was terrified I'd revisit the horrible depression and anxiety so I stayed on it.,0 +There's a little bit more lack of concentration on my part which can be mistaken for short attention span because this drug puts me in a state of La La land and it's hard to snap out of it bc it's such a nice place.,1 +Constipation .,1 +"The only issues I have, not really side effects, is that its a little harder to get out of bed in the morning, and some constipation.",1 +"Despite helping with anxiety, I just didn't feel like my mood was lifted sufficiently and that I almost didn't feel like myself anymore- almost just too calm (where I like certain of my manic traits).",0 +I don't know if it is related but I lost my job because of it.,1 +"I also had dizziness and exhaustion, but those went away in a couple of days.",1 +"However, I gained 25 pounds on it and this just fueled my depression even more since I was close to being overweight before going on it.",1 +"Took a while to have an effect on mood obviously,but side-effects alarming:sudden migraines which I had had very infrequently before.",1 +"I always tell my doctor, please don't start anyone, because once they get started, they'll never be able to stop.",0 +"I am now on my first complete day with taking no zoloft after slowing decreasing the dose and the withdrawal isn't pleasant but survivable so far, Headache, slight confusion, temperature and feeling very tired are some of the withdrawal symptoms I have so far felt but they are better than what zoloft was doing for me.",0 +Couldn't catch my breath.,1 +Hoping this one is better! ,0 +I know I have to consult my physician.,0 +Have not slept the whole time I have been on the medication.,1 +"As time went on, my sexual sensitivity began to diminish, my weight began to skyrocket (20+ lbs) and the benefits of the drug began to be outweighed by the anxiety and depression caused by getting fat and sexual dysfunction .",1 +I haven't been taking this drug too long and I am stopping because of the dryness it causes in my eyes (swollen) and my scalp (scratching).,1 +Don't ever run out.,0 +"There was a lot of pressure, After that, day four was when I felt great.",1 +"I have gone down to 50 mg a day, and had no withdrawls.",0 +All drugs effect people differently.,0 +I am less self-conscious to the point where I could care less and am comfortable in any social environment.,0 +Vivid dreams/nightmares.,1 +"Overall feelling of ""numb brain"" as I call it, Trouble concentrating.",1 +throwing things across the room in anger .,1 +if you stop taking this the withdrawal is awful.,0 +"He felt I'd been trying so many different meds that didn't work, and that I hadn't been on a high enough dose of Effexor in the past for it to be effective.",0 +"When I went off of it, it was because I had become so angry and irritable I couldn't be around anyone because I would become violent at nothing.",1 +"Fatigue, extreme changes in body temperature (hot to cold), slight headache, insomnia, agitation and anxiousness, fidgeting, food tasting odd and loss of concentration.",1 +When I do get up .,0 +I have been on it for a year now.,0 +Its early days so far but I do think it has taken the edge of my anxiety and obsessing.,0 +It has been over 24 hrs.,0 +This drug should really be banned by the FDA.,0 +"I never took any meds and was scared to death to start/but I did (5mg)/after two days, my feelings improved greatly/bad things just slide off my back/I feel like a new person",0 +I lost weight considerably and shook all the time.,1 +"None work like the SNRI, Effexor XR with me.",0 +"The first month is somewhat an experience, with varing degrees of dizziness, nausea, headaches and a feeling of not-being-right.",1 +I haven't had a good night's sleep in a year because of the night sweats.,1 +"WEIGHT GAIN!, WEIGHT GAIN!, AND WEIGHT GAIN.",1 +"I also gain weight whenever the dose is incerased, and I have TONS of food cravings.",1 +Aloha~,0 +For the past 9 months I have been on Prednisone to keep the swelling and itching at bay.,0 +"Stopped once I went off them, restarted when I restarted them, so it was definitely them causing it.",0 +"I workout 4 - 5 times a week hard, watch my diet, and every other drug has always made me gain.",0 +"I wasn't depressed, or sad, or happy, or angry.",1 +"Even the most innocuous of prescribed pain medication has vastly more therapeutic value, simply because Cymbalta has none.",0 +"some fatigue, some brief episodes of heart fibrulation, decreased sex drive, slightly less appetite.",1 +"I've heard great things about what this drug can do for depression, but the side effects are a real possibility.",1 +"However, these speedy effects completely negate any sexual side effects and if anything will improve your sex life, making it great if you find SSRI's sexual side effects distressing.",0 +"I felt its positive effects within a day or two, and pressed through the initial side effects because I was so encouraged by the anti-depressive features.",0 +He believed the drug rep but not me.,0 +The only way I can sum it up is to say I wish I could be put to sleep for a month or so while this gets out of my system.,0 +"if I take 20mg, then I feel zombie-like.",1 +I am 21 years old and this medicine has worked wonders for me.,0 +20 pounds total in 6 months Appetite increase .,1 +I am not able to leave the house until the meds kick in because I am physically just very sick.,0 +"Night Sweats, Restless Legs, Take 150mg, and that, along with Provigil that I started a bit later, appear to have given my regular epilepy meds a push to stop my seizures, that were previously at 4-5 a day.",1 +"Decreased sex drive (but no problem performing), delayed orgasm (however, orgasms seem a bit more intense), moderate night sweats (primarily legs and groin area), slight tremor in right hand (only briefly and immediately upon waking up).",1 +The nausea subsided but still suffer from the fatigue and horrible night sweats.,1 +The doctor told me that it was the Lexapro's side effects.,0 +"The medication however is only a tool and I have to attend therapy,medication can't fix the abuse I've suffered,or my fear of men ad a resulting factor,that has to be dealt with in other ways and trying to bury it down just ate me up.",0 +My prescribing MD assured that a second increase in dosage was needed.,0 +"poor short-term memory, increased alcohol craving, increased reaction to alcohol/blackouts, vivid dreams, sleep disturbances (talking in sleep), weight gain (15+ lbs) and decreased sex drive.",1 +brain fog memory loss.,1 +"I now have a job I love (OK, like) and do not worry about the future.",0 +Less is more.,0 +"night sweats, dreams, possibly increased appetite.",1 +"No libido whatsoever, Emotionless.",1 +"After putting on even a lot more weight because of the combination of the Cymbalta AND Prednisone, I have plans for stomach surgery within the next 2 months.",1 +"sleeping alot about 12hours a day, coffee doesnt keep me awake anymore.",1 +"The lasting ones: decrease in appetite, change in food cravings - from carbs to sugar - down 2 sizes :) this is a weird one.",1 +10mgs daily Lexapro has helped my anxiety and has chilled me out.,0 +"When I should have been crying, I had no desire.",1 +Inability to orgasm.,1 +"Extremely tired, low motivation and energy.",1 +My mind was in a fog.,1 +I was hitting caffeine everyday on this med Made me extremely tired especially more while weaning off lexapro with the combination of the two drugs.,1 +I've tried quite a few antidepressants and this one seems to be the one that handles my depression and I can live with the side effects.,1 +I advice people go to this webcite ( the link was removed because of privacy protection) and see what TAAT can do.,0 +"4.5 months ago when I was researching Zoloft on-line, it seemed that the only people who wrote comments about Zoloft were those with horrible experiences, or had some other negative thing to say about it.",0 +felt physically ill during the first 3 weeks at 60 mg on this med.,1 +IT IMMEDIATELY TOOK CARE OF THE LEG PROBLEMS & I SLEPT VERY WELL.,0 +Jaw clenching; difficulty achieving orgasm; fatigue.,1 +"intense dreams, loss of sex drive. ",1 +It's signifigant to note that I had been wearing a night guard that was supposed to protect the teeth during this past year.,1 +I'm als,0 +"mostly i felt okay, but i wasn't comfortable taking such a high dosage and not seeing big results.",0 +"suicidal/homicidal hopeless thoughts, irrational broke a tooth grinding them incessantly, erratic menstrual periods, intense dreams that I could not tell from reality and could not wake from.",1 +I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRUG.,0 +"I was taking 200mg every morning, however I now only take 50mg as I am trying to get my sexual problems to improve.",1 +I barely remember the last 3.5 months.,1 +From the moment I swallowed this pill I experienced a dry mouth and dry eyes.,1 +I lost over 50 lbs in the last 6 months just from lack of eating or throwing up what I did eat.,1 +I can go out with friends again without suffering extreme anxiety I can sleep at night easily and naturally Overall it's a very good drug.,0 +"nausea, dizziness, spaciness, lack of coordination, massive headache in morning that lasts all day, feeling generally ""hungover"", lack of energy/motivation, dry mouth, jaw clenching, Dr. prescribed this to ""give me a better outlook, engergy, and be able to face the day"" because of depression related to death of parents/divorce/job cut/ and resulting overwhelming responsibilities related to those factors.",1 +I had no clue it was the side effect from the lexapro.,0 +My dr recommended Cymbalta and said that he's heard great things from his patients that have been on this med.,0 +"I know Zoloft works for a lot of people, but I am breastfeeding and have a 2-year-old to look after, so I can't keep taking it in the hope that the side effects might go away after a week or 2) I need to be able to eat and function.",1 +I was not about to take pill #5.,0 +"I was very suicidal when put on Lexapro and it helped me relax a great deal, I was so much more happy on it but had to stop taking it due to it causing hair loss and it killed my sex drive and feeling.",1 +"It tool about 6 weeks to work, Now I'am driving,shopping,back in church it has really worked.",0 +"im happy with the result, is certainly worth the side affects.",1 +VERY vivid dreams to the point of not really knowing what I dreamt and what really happened.,1 +I recently was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Cymbalta is a terrible choice for PCOS patients as it can raise insulin levels (which causes weight gain and lots of the other side effects that are already PCOS issues).,0 +"increased anxiety was the worst thing for me, but it went way down on day 4 or 5) loose stool for 2 weeks, headache for 5 days, restless legs first 2 weeks.",1 +I was unable to hold my body vertical.,1 +I did not take any of the effexor yesterday as I hope to just take Wellbutrin but I am even having trouble typing these comments because I did not have a dose of effexor in the past 24 hours.,0 +"This information is simply compiled from personal experience and remember that everyone reacts differently to these drugs so you may experience some/all/none ,or have other side effects i didn't mention.",0 +In other words; I was up for less hours at a time.,1 +"Dry mouth in the beginning, decreased sex drive, Didn't do a thing for me, even at the highest dose.",1 +"It comes at a price though; nothing penetrates the surface, i don't care really about anyone for more then a minute.",0 +definatly get real nausious.,1 +in the past two months have had three severe colds that start with flu-like symptoms and then have severe congestion lasting a couple of weeks.,1 +"After a year or so I realized I didn't have much of a libido anymore and after about 2.5 years on Zoloft I finally changed my medication, but if it wasn't for that side effect, I most likely would have stayed on it.",1 +It wasn't until the 3rd week that I started to feel as though I had the flu.,1 +30 mg worked initially then abruptly seemed to stop working after about 6 weeks/now on 60 mg I am happy to say I have not felt this good for years and years.,0 +"Tired, dry mouth, dizziness on occassion.",1 +was initially on Effexor and slowly got up to 100 mg a day.,0 +The withdrawel is quite severe and I went through hell going off this drug!,0 +"It was the time of my exams at university, and unfortunately I was unable to think and concentrate on anything and therefore failed. ",1 +None that were enough to notice until recently.,0 +"Overall, Effexor did very well relieving my depression.",0 +Then side effects made me feel like hell.,1 +"Sexual dysfunction, extreme hunger, carbohydrate cravings, weight gain, insomnia, acid reflux, fatigue, water retention, eating disorder thoughts, spacey thinking.",1 +Shakiness and numbness in fingers which went away after the first few days.,1 +The dry mouth is very insignificant compared to depression.,1 +I can still orgasm it just takes longer.,1 +"extreme nausea, migraines, lethargy, loss of libido, flu-like symptoms.",1 +Really no negative side effects.,0 +I look forward to each step where scientists take one further towards a better life for those who suffer.,0 +"NO SEX DRIVE whatsoever,insomina, no motivation, lack of energy.",1 +Women know this really does work wonders.,0 +was not that effective,0 +"I never tried to hurt myself before this drug, o",1 +I chose to go off the medication for that reason.,0 +Its really to early to tell for me.,0 +"When taking at night, Cymbalta caused insomnia something awful.",1 +"I dont know if I should stay on this or not, i'm only on 25mg for 6 days so far but i cant take much more of this afternoon anxiety.",1 +Nothing moves or excites me.,1 +intese dislike for people who use these forums to use language that clearly idenitfies them as an IDIOT.,0 +"I'm 45 years old,so all it's done for me is swap one problem for another.",0 +"But on second later use it didn't work at 20 mg, so tried Wellbutrin - a very very dangerous disaster for me and quickly stopped it.",0 +"Weight gain, insomnia, heart pains, dizziness, suicidalness, zero sex drive, numbness.",1 +"Excessive yawning, with a euphoric feeling each time I yawned, very spaced out, happy in another world, no withdrawal, no weight gain.",1 +"I've also gained about 60 pounds because I became more depressed and freaked out, leading me to just give up on a healthy lifestyle as well as failing an entire semester at my university.",1 +Vivid dreams and nightmares.,1 +Went back into severe depression.,0 +On 225 mg This stuff just numbs me out.,1 +"I gained an additional 20lbs I am fatigued, have fluid retention, my pain has broken through again and my depression has come back.",1 +"little sleepy at first, then dosage was increased from 30mg to 60 mg after the first week & I felt better.",1 +Unless you want to be a walking zombie,1 +Very difficult to come off.,0 +I will deal with the side effects any day for how Effexor has changed my life for the better.,1 +"However, beware!",0 +"I was ""speeding"" the whole time, but felt no relief or, for that matter, a single positive effect.",1 +"I gave it a 4 out of 5 as it's still early days, but I'm very hopeful; I was in a bad, bad way before Cymbalta.",0 +"Not sleeping, chills and fever, inability to drink alcohol.",1 +"Extreme fatigue, drowsiness and a 5lb weight gain within the first 2 months.",1 +couldn't stop myself from eating sweets.,1 +Can't get over how much better I feel now off of this drug.,0 +do not wean off effexor too soon as i had one very bad day and experienced mild halloucinations,0 +"dry mouth, insomnia if taken late in the day, However.",1 +Wellbutrin worked MUCH better!,0 +Diarrhea for two weeks.,1 +"dry mouth,insomnia,anxiety.",1 +Now I have night sweats and my body temperature has increased.,1 +"Increase in panic attacks / anxiety, weight gain (10lbs), headaches and vivid dreams.",1 +Make sure you are not prescibed more then you should be taking.,0 +There were multiple occurances when I attempted to commit suicide.,0 +"I am, however, TIRED!",1 +"The first dose gave me a ""spaced-out"" feeling that continued for a few more doses.",1 +The side effects go away.,1 +I WANT TO ANY ONE TO PLEASE DO NO TAKE THIS VERY ADDICTING MED.,0 +Less and less libido and sexual function over the years.,1 +"It's been four days since I discontinued, and I'm still wiped out and dizzy with flu-like symptoms.",1 +Emotionally numb.,1 +"I confused the awful side effects for feeling more depressed & more anxious, so my doctor upped my dose.",1 +People look at you strange when you wear short sleeves in 40 degree weather.,1 +"tired all the time, no sex drive, unable to reach orgasm, didn't care about a thing, And, if you think the side effects are hell, just wait until you try and go off it, OMG, the nightmares, the insane DIZZINESS, the brain ""SHOCKS"" .",1 +"In fact, because of Cymbaltas adverse emotional reactions, the inherent inability to get an erection or orgasm that is more the norm in other SSRI medications appears to be even worse with this one.",1 +ALL of the aforementioned side effects plus I feel like I have the flu.,0 +"I was TERRIFIED, felt like I was intoxicated by some horrible drug, they admited me for 5 days, then I quit this drug and started on LAMICTAL which saved my life I now feel content and complete.",1 +"if i missed more than two doses in a row i'd be a total mess, 300mg daily.",0 +"After a few weeks, extreme apathy and lack of initiative/drive/motivation.",1 +sexual appetite went away,1 +"My anxiety improved slightly for a week, but this week seems to be worse than ever.",0 +It also made me very hungry when I first started it and whenever I increased dosage.,1 +"But, I'm still about 10 pounds heavier than I'd like and at this point, I don't think I can blame it on Effexor.",0 +"Shaking, Irritable, Energy, later fatigue, constipation, anxiousness, anxiety attacks, craving sweets, flu like symptoms, ear ache, weak, as if my heart was overly stressed if I done the least little thing.",1 +"You seem to ""miss"" seconds of time.",0 +It's the best anti-depressant I've ever taken.,0 +I did this without doctor supervision .,0 +This is the 4th antidepressant I've tried in the past 6 months & the first to give me any relief from my depression.,0 +but it has been a nightmare for me.,0 +"contact your Dr, and if that doesn't help, get another opinion.",0 +"if you do, please email me!",0 +a horrible mistake as I had a feeling of euphoria for about 3 months.,0 +Sure it helps depression because it makes you not give a rats ass about anything!,1 +"Also, I also just seem mostly numb which is pretty scary.",1 +"If you miss a dose you get dizzy, confused, and have weird dreams.",0 +I am somewhat fragile at this moment.,1 +First month - sleeplessness.,1 +"During the first week I experienced hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia.",1 +I would really caution anyone who wants to begin any drug for depression without first finding out all the facts of this medicine.,0 +I would recommend for anyone to take the Effexor XR.,0 +"Even though I feel slightly numbed out, I notice I'm more relaxed than I have ever been-the brainfog does not interefere with my patient care and safety.",1 +"Extreme fatige,sweating,nightmares and that was just the beginning.",1 +"shakes, very panicky, extremely agitated and nervous, etc.",1 +"On the other hand, I am functioning again.",0 +I guess I'll wait to see if this head pressure will ever go away.,1 +I kind of like having dreams-i never used to have them/remember them.,1 +Pain in minimal though and I feel less anxious and depressed.,0 +Everything seemed to be positive.,0 +Loss sex drive; weight gain; night sweats; nightmares; muscle twitches and jerky when sleeping; ( miss a dose i get depression or panic attack- sometimes withdraw symptoms).,1 +"At first, lots; after a few weeks, only reduced sex drive.",1 +My vertigo has not responded to conservative treatment thus far.,1 +"Nausea, diarrhea, upset stomach, dry mouth, sleepiness.",1 +"Very Sleepy throughout the day,nauseous,pain actually got worse,could not sleep good at night, WITHDRAWEL EFFECTS ONLY AFTER TAKING FOR 10 DAYS!",1 +My energy levels are back to normal.,0 +Initially I felt a little worse (I already felt very wretched) but from past experience I knew that would clear if I could fight through it.,1 +The first few months i was on Zoloft my depression and anxiety were definitely lifted.,0 +At greater then 50 mg experience sexual side effects.,1 +"I am now on 150mg, with hope that is will just get better.",0 +"I have very significant issues with thermo-regulation which leads to a feeling of burning, followed by profuse sweating.",0 +It is now back to 112/72) Lexapro worked great for my depression after only 2 days.,0 +Within a few hours I was trippin from the side effects.,0 +It also made me sweat and feel hot a lot more often. ,1 +"Please take heed,vomiting,muscle twitches,anxiety,bad thumping headache.",0 +Sometimes counseling just isnt enough to battle having little confidence in your self and a depressed attitude about life.,0 +"Prior to taking this medication I was not much of a drinker, and now that Im off it I'm not either.",0 +"The older types worked up to a point, but there was always an underlying feeling that depression would emerge, and sometimes it did.",0 +"Havent noticed the meds working yet, but no pains compared to celexa.",0 +"After trying all others, this drug has given me a sense of calm and feeling of contentedness that I never knew others lived with Unfortunately, I also experienced drastic wieght gain of 25 lbs within 6 months and it is still going.",1 +Yes?,0 +Only had to stop it because the diarrhea never stopped.,1 +Stopped taking it and two weeks later still irregular.,1 +at first some 'hung-over' feeling.,1 +"First two days,no problem.",0 +I'll talk to my Dr. and try to do some research.,0 +BUT I think we all need to remember why we turned to anti-depressants in the first place .,0 +Slept through life and gained weight.,1 +A wonderful drug.,0 +"I've been off for a little over a week, and it's getting a little better.",0 +i still have anxiety; no panic attacks.,0 +"I was tired, and felt extra exhausted all the time.",1 +Cannot get off to sleep although very tired.,1 +I also had some really strange images while trying to go to sleep last night.,1 +"The anxiety I experience is somewhat resistant, however, and Zoloft isn't really helping.",0 +I feel like i have found my light at the end of the tunnel.,0 +i haven't taken the lexapro for over a week.,0 +Anxiety got worse.,1 +"i know it's only my 2nd day, but I am nauseated, and have had a headache since 30 minutes after taking the 1st pill.",1 +I was Determined NOT to remain depressed so I first tried 1/2mg ativan followed by an additional dose of 60 mg of cymbalta.,0 +"I had a really rough year last year which included a fmaily member dying, getting out of a bad relationship, and almost getting kicked out of school.",0 +"increased anxiety, sleeplessness, increased appetite, increased sensitivity, BUT only for first few weeks of upping dosage.",1 +"was fine for the first month, but now I am experiencing severe joint discomfort in my wrists.",1 +Came to hospital and they gave me something to reverse it.,1 +"Took the pill for depression for a year and a half, extreme weight gain, no sex drive, even more depressed",1 +At the moment I can say that I felt better on 100mg.,0 +Initially sick all of the time.,1 +I found that I just did not care about anyone or anything anymore.,1 +I seem to be very sensitive to the SSRI's .,0 +Hot flashes and restless sleep for the first 4 weeks.,1 +One thing I did experience when trying to get off it was mood swings.,0 +I let them in and give a polite wave.,0 +Cannot currently sing due to my arid dry mouth and throat.,1 +Woah what is going on here?,0 +"INTENSE JAW PAIN, TREMORS, INSOMNIA, LACK OF SEXUAL DESIRE, DRY MOUTH, MOOD SWINGS. ",1 +I would take time off work to collect.,1 +Gain weigth & low sexual drive.,1 +"Initially, a loss of appetite, weight loss in first 5 days, spaced out feeling.",1 +"Shakes, sweating, difficulty sleeping, diarrhea, high blood pressure, Increased orgasms.",1 +I also told off an attorney I was working with.,0 +"Itching, which comes and goes.",1 +When I get eight hours.,0 +"loss of sex drive, increase in anxiety.",1 +One thing I learned real quick was not to miss a dose.,0 +Increased craving for alcohol.,1 +Some bouts of sudden depression and anxiety while on it.,1 +I went up to 20mg and found I was putting on a lot of weight.,1 +"So I still get the good feelings, which I like, but unfortunately I also still get the depression.",0 +"Wild, life-like/real dreams; definitely CANNOT skip a dose (wicked headache and dizziness).",1 +"as good as it gets, at a price",0 +"I had intense headaches for the first 3 days of taking Cymbalta, but then the depression ""fog"" cleared and I felt much less weighed down by my thoughts.",1 +Going on it the side effects only lasted about a week.,1 +Decreased Libido.,1 +So far so good.,0 +I felt drugged.,0 +"I am experiencing some of the side effects mentioned elsewhere, dizziness, irritability, upset stomach, although they are fairly mild.",0 +"For example: my 8-year-old spilled a whole glass of coke in my car and my reaction was ""Oh well, let's clean it up.""",0 +"Sex is still enjoyable but it's harder to climax, which is annoying, but I think is getting better with time.",1 +After you threw up 30 minutes after taking your pill.,1 +"After listing all of the side effects, it may sound funny to say this, but I have loved Lexapro.",1 +I'm slowly gaining back weight I struggled very hard to lose and its driving me even more down in the dumps.,1 +Confronted by family about what kind of quality of life I had.,0 +For me it became a question of balance: Lexapro side effects vs. depression and its side effects.,0 +don't experience side affects while on Cymbalta but when I am off.,0 +I am a recovering meth addict and feel exactly as if I am coming off of meth!,0 +I have been on it now for five weeks and feel great.,0 +After about a few weeks it leveled off.,0 +"Lack of sex drive, weight gain, sleep problems.",1 +NO weight gain.,0 +"It has definately helped with my uncontrollable crying and incesant thoughts about death, However, the main reason I take it is for anxiety.",0 +"I've gained 10 lb of pure fat in the past year, Literally FAT.",1 +"Have your blood pressure checked even if like me, you have never had a problem with it you may be in for a nasty surprise!",1 +I HAVE TAKEN THESE MEDS FOR ABOUT 13 YEARS UNTIL I STARTED HAVING LEG ACHES AT NIGHT.,0 +"I came back out into the world, and started to see my friends again.",0 +Lost weight at first.,1 +Difficulty climaxing!,1 +"I do still get the drowsiness about an hour after I take it, so I take it at night.",1 +"i think there are better drugs out there now to treat anxiety and depression, this drug has far too many side effects for anyone to feel comfortable taking it.",1 +"I can deal with all these side effects, but would love to get rid of the fatigue.",1 +My only continuing side effects are total loss of appetite and continuing problems with insomnia.,1 +It seems only a VERY TOXIC drug would have this side effect.,1 +"the med made me more anxious than before , agitation, sleeplessness .",1 +When I came off Cymbalta I had the worst side effects I could've ever imagined.,0 +There were times where it made me feel even more anxious than I already was.,1 +I went to doctor for my acid reflux and as it turned out he prescribed this poison to me without even telling me what this shit is and what does it do to my body.,1 +"tiredness, increase in alcohol abuse/depenence (not near as bad as paxil), slightly decreased sexual desire(again not nearly as bad as paxil), somewhat decrease in energy, occasional euphoria.",1 +"I stoped cold turkey after taking 150 ml 5 days later ended up in the ER for a suicide attempt, next day, paramedics at my house for talking suicidal thoughts, 7th day tried again spent 2 1/2 weeks in phych word.",0 +"weight gain,agitation,hair loss,sleep disturbance. ",1 +No side effects now accept for yawning.,1 +Side effects were sleepiness and excessive sweating.,1 +& I slept 2 hours.,1 +"I've got kids though and if I kept taking Cymbalta, I'ld be living in my van by now and not paying child support.",0 +I'm 29 years old and have been with him for almost 3 years now.,0 +The headaches were unbearable.,1 +but other than that its been good to feel like life is worth living again.,0 +"Unfortunately, the side effects began to be too much for it to be worth it.",1 +"I love the effects of this med, except that now I am noticing weight gain (7lbs in last 2 mo.)",1 +"I have lots of neck problems (DDD, herniation, stenosis, etc) so I thought the severe pain in my hands and arms was the result of that.",1 +I feel tired a lot in the middle of the day but I always have in the winter anyway!,1 +The Dr at hospital said that was a very common effect with Cymbalta. ,0 +The best time for me to take it is around 5pm with a good meal.,0 +I had a little bit of a problem falling asleep last night.,1 +might work for some peeps but didn't work for me.,0 +As of last Sunday I don't take the cymbalta any longer.,0 +I was at 60mg and then dropped to 30mg for 2 weeks then stopped taking it.,0 +"At first i yawned constantly and had dry mouth but over time it stopped, and weight loss.",1 +"Brain zaps, excessive yawning, fatigue, increased appetite, vivid sexual dreams, sexual side effects.",1 +"- Most people don't start on 20mg, it was an emergency.",0 +"The loss of appetite and weight loss was one of the main side effects I had, I am already underweight, and losing weight isn't good for me",1 +It is now 12 hours later and it still feels like LSD but I'm getting more flu like symptoms now.,1 +Very big increase in blood pressure which I had never experienced before.,1 +"Dry mouth the first month and then later bouts of extreme thirst, I think it also gives me headaches and neckaches, but I am not sure because I was diagnosed with migraines previous to this medicine.",1 +"I would like to try a different antidepressant because the loss of motivation and being tired all the time is making me feel lazy, worthless, and almost as depressed as before I started taking it.",1 +I take it at night.,0 +I think the combo makes me itch all over.,0 +I only take 50mg and life is a lot nicer.,0 +I'm in serious pain right now.,1 +"dripping in sweat all the time, extreme fatigue, mucus coming out of my anus, feeling like I have to have a bowel movement several times an hour, constipation, and my depression is the same as when I wasn't on it.",1 +"On the third day at work, I experienced what felt like an 'acid trip' after about an hour of taking the recomended 30 mg dose.",1 +love love love this medicine its made a tremendous difference in my life it doesnt really do anything for my pain but helps alot for my depression and moods.,0 +I found a terrific counselor who prescribed me lexapro after informing her of my previous experiences with prozac and valium.,0 +After the two weeks the neuropathy pain subsided and had a loss of appetite which was a good thing for me.,1 +"it'll ruin your life,im only 19 and i've been on it for 4 years.",0 +I've been on this medication for years.,0 +"I must have developed a tolerance however, as my dosage was increased and now my doc is transitioning me to Lexapro.",0 +"Now I find I have extremely vivid & bizarre dreams- some good, some bad.",1 +"Dry mouth, subsidized sex drive, first few weeks experienced tiredness and felt very foggy.",1 +A few hours later that seems to cease and I become really tired.,1 +"didnt want to eat first two weeks, cant sleep, felt sick when working out/shaking.",1 +"good news: there's a generic coming out, meaning it doesn't cost $10 a pill (before insurance) sometime soon",0 +"Dizziness, ringing of the ears, irritable, anxious, horrible nightmares, feelings of electrical surges in my body.",1 +"When all is said and done, and after taking so many other AD's that have really messed me up, this is by far the best, with the least amount of side effects.",1 +"I do have sleeplessness but, I am willing to deal with that in exchange for the pain, weightlose and the feeling of happiness.",1 +head fog.,1 +"It has calmed my anxiety down alot, before I could hardly bare to be social,social situations just scared me to death.",0 +This drug really didn't help either of my problems at all.,0 +This was my miracle on Christmas day.,0 +"Vivid dreams, and remember them in such great detail !",1 +"slight sexual problems, delayed ejaculation.",1 +There is no way I could work with this and I will not take it again.,0 +Currently in the process of switching over to Wellbutrin XL.,0 +"I like not feeling depressed, but I feel like I am being made to feel happy against my will.",1 +"extreme weight gain, short-term memory loss, hair loss.",1 +I feel so much better emotionally and physically than I did when I was on Celexa.,0 +"You can't do that after being on Effexor a while, it makes you fat, exhausted & feel hopeless!",1 + ,0 +5 lb weight gain initially.,1 +"achiness, tiredness, restlessness, blurry vision, tingling in arms, legs and hands, increased anxiety, high blood pressure, belching, heartburn, loss of appetite, strange taste in mouth, alternating hot and cold spells, headaches, loss of feeling during sex.",1 +"Nausea, Insomnia, Loss of appetite, Dizziness, Dry mouth, Increased sweating, Constipation, Abnormal dreams, Weight loss, High blood pressure, Flushing, Abdominal pain, Twitching, Inability to sit still, A rapid heart rate, Fever, sweating, or shivering, Coughing, Extreme confusion, High cholesterol, Hemorrhoids, Liver problems, A decreased sex drive,, My Dr. tried every medication and nothing worked, until he put me on Effexor XR.",1 +"WEIGHT GAIN DESPITE REDUCED CALORIE INTAKE, frequent nausea, vivid dreams to the point that is difficult to wake from them, head rush that made me think I was having a stroke, disassociation, spaciness, horrible withdrawal symptoms-so NOT quit suddenly or on your own.",1 +My depression is at an all-time low and my anxiety getting better.,0 +"Dry mouth, heightened side effects if more than one day's dose was missed (aggression, agitation, restlessness, mood swings) but not severe enough to quit taking it long term.",0 +Another reviewer above mentioned in his case it took several months.,0 +I have hung in there and now the side effect have gone.,0 +where as I don't really want to do anything now durring the day.,1 +"MY HAIR WAS SHEDDING AT AN UNUSUAL RATE, I WAS HAVING A DULL HEADACHE CONSTANTLY.",1 +This drug has helped me greatly.,0 +Some libido decrease.,1 +"I have taken many, many drugs and this one was a doozy.",0 +"Severe fatigue, problems staying asleep, slight nausea.",1 +The food I used to avoid I LOVE now.,0 +"and I still have occasional heart flutters, a clenched stomach, and the anxiety that goes with that.",1 +This is surprisingly strong stuff.,0 +"I don't lose my temper, go into ranting raging fits anymore.",0 +After seeing every type of doctor AND having every type of blood test/urine test/a fat biopsy about the swelling and itching rash on the inside of my knees and what started on the inside of my ankles.,0 +Both subsided in a couple of weeks.,1 +"It left me just as sad, only bigger and full of poop.",1 +"I think of this time of my life as taking a well needed break, That's what Lexapro is.",0 +"have experinced headaches alot when i wake up mainly, increased appiette, weight gain of course.",1 +this drug worked so well along with therapy.,0 +Effective in reducing anxiety and depression in less than a week.,0 +I would just stay around and do nothing all day.,1 +"I resisted taking this medicine at first, but decided it was for the best when my depression and anxiety started getting in the way of my functioning normally.",0 +I am sleeping better much better.,0 +Now I have an erosive esophagus.,1 +"I initially also experienced extreme night sweats and some jaw clencing at night, but these passed within a week.",1 +"Next day worthless and in a fog, bad headache.",1 +The nightmares and the sickness that goes with it are terrible besides the symptoms you had to begin with.,0 +"nausea about 4 hours after taking the med lasting rest of the day,sweating in the face, severe constipation.",1 +"feels like you have the flu x 100 constantly for 2 weeks now I cant work, cant go to school, can't function.",0 +I have a hot flash type of feeling the first few hours after taking it.,1 +Think I'm gonna call my pshyc.,0 +Coping with these side effects is nothing compared to coping with severe depression.,1 +"Sexual side-effects, insomnia.",1 +I was then put on Prednisone 20 mg a day to subdue the swelling and rash/itching.,0 +For the first two weeks I could not drive and could barely leave my bed.,0 +Six months later and I don't feel any better.,0 +The side effects are far less hassle than being in my dark depression,1 +then i was given 60 mg and i have been taking that for about 3 weeks now and i have highs and lows all the time.,1 +"Weight gain ( 20 pounds in 6 months )adverse sexual side effect, loopy when trying to come off of it, threw up many times a week within an hour of taking med.",1 +Thanks.,0 +Its an antipsychotic with lots of serious side effects (I'm not psychotic).,0 +"Aside from that, it's been all good.",0 +Dry mouth.,1 +I have no sleepiness at all.,0 +Very sleepy all the time.,1 +I'm comfortable with this drug.,0 +Most of these side effects diminished markedly after 2 weeks.,1 +Just eat cereal and fruit if you don't want to gain weight.,0 +Insomnia headaches nightmares.,1 +"Some days constant hunger, other days no appetite at all.",1 +"weight gain, dry mouth, decreased libido.",1 +"initially, I was very tired for the first few weeks; no side effects after that.",1 +"Dilated pupils, sleepiness, dizziness first few days, inability to cry, anxiety.",1 +"I still don't like being on medicine, but I can't deny how much it has helped me.",0 +I also have noticed that I don't get so upset and rattled by other people's rudeness or nasty comments anymore.,0 +"dry mouth, severe thirst, hot flashes all over my body, tightness in my chest, severe diahrea, fuzzy mind, freaquent urination, lost 25 pounds in two weeks, muscle aches, flu like symptons, stomach cramps and tiredness.",1 +Very happy to be on it again.,0 +ALL OF MY PROBLEMS WERE RIGHT HERE WITH SOME OF THE OTHER COMMENTS.,0 +With the approval and supervision of my doctor I am trying to get off of the medication.,0 +is this typical?,0 +"Still living my life with all of the ups and downs, but I feel centered and normal.",0 +The doctor told me that it seems I have a hypersensitivity.,0 +These could be dangerous.,0 +I love it.,0 +They usually smile back at you :) Think of positive thoughts even if you have to make them up.,0 +"When I don't take it, (if I miss my dose) I have difficulty sleeping.",0 +"Withdrawal symptoms are nothing to mess with I ran out of pills over a 4 day holiday weekend, and boy did I feel wierd.",0 +little dry mouth.,1 +"I did things I normally wouldn't do, bought expensive things I couldn't afford.",0 +I was give a doctors sample for 60mg which was probably too high to start out as most seem to start with 30mg.,0 +"At first I had some minor sexual side effects (no problems with erection, but I did have delayed ejaculation), but those side effects disappeared after a few months.",1 +"not cold chills), TMJ (from clenching jaw at night).",1 +feel free to contact me I'm a research junky when it comes to meds!,0 +I took it for 3 months believe that its affect on the mind is indirectly linked to the immune system functioning .,0 +Lack of motivation.,1 +"This drug might have saved my life, it sure saved my sanity.",0 +It is not the true sense of peace that comes from God.,0 +I feel like I've been chemically neutered.,1 +"I feel happier, less ""blue"" I do have problems sleeping thru the night (I'm writing this at 4:30 am) but am hoping with continued dosage, that will subside.",1 +"I'm thinking seriously about going back on, but after reading some of your comments, I'm a bit scared.",0 +Took first dose late yesterday morning after a late breakfast.,0 +"For me, this medication manages my depression if I take it at a low dose.",0 +I'm on the slow decrease.,0 +"Also, hugely improved productivity; I'm unfrozen, However, this is countered by a waning desire to spend quality time with quality people, but I'm forcing myself beyond that because friends are priceless.",0 +"Ive taken several anti depressants and this is the only one that has done anything for me, I just hope it doesnt wear off.",0 +Has anyone been on the cymbalta longer and with the combination of other meds that I am taking.,0 +"Nausea on the first day, nightmares, racing heart, unable to have orgasm.",1 +I was given zoloft from my pyschiatrist and started at 50mg per day and was steadily increased to 100mg.,0 +"My moods are stable, but I'm now mildly and continuously depressed because of the two main side effects - lack of libido and bad night sweats.",1 +"Before starting Effexor, my BP was 120/80, pulse 75.",0 +Difficulty with reaching orgasm.,1 +"The only side effect I have is occasional tremors, mostly in my hands.",1 +agree that it isnt really effective for me either.,0 +could definitely not drive in this state!,1 +"IT HAS RUINED MY LIFE, BEWARE!",0 +No real bad side effects unless I missed a dose then I'd cry a lot.,0 +"To anyone that is trying it and experiencing some of the dizziness and nausea, I encourage you to stick it out.",0 +"I had balance issues, and would get the shakes before my second dose.",1 +No matter what the side effects are it's worth it to get me back on my feet and let me feel good for a change.,0 +"constipation, fatigue, weight gain, blocked tears and sad feelings that still existed inside of me.",1 +effexor works very well.,0 +"For the first couple weeks I was very tired, felt lethargic at times and more anxious at others.",1 +I hope others have better results from this medication but I would recommend trying something different.,0 +Why is this product legal?,0 +The side effects have been manageable compared to lexapro and celexa.,1 +"However, I worry about the day when I decide to go off of them and determine if my depression is more chronic or clinical.",0 +"Dizzy, light headed, foggy brain, just stoned!",1 +Worst drug i've ever had the misfortune to have prescribed to me.,0 +"headache, dizziness, loss of sex drive, insomnia.",1 +"Depression, major nausea, shaking, heart arrhythmia, trouble sleeping, dizziness, fuzzy brain, memory loss, feeling faint.",1 +"My follow through is great, where as I used to be flaky and couldn't be counted on, Lexapro has changed all that - now I'm dependable",0 +yipee.,0 +"Over all I'd say these side effects are much easier go deal with than before & am very happy to be on the route to a steady, happy life!",1 +Doctor mentioned me being on the cymbalta for about a year.,0 +It has only been two weeks since I stopped taking the med.,0 +Elevated blood pressure.,1