User Reviews for escitalopram oxalate oral

The medicine started working within 15 days.It was accompanied first by clonazepam and buspirone. Then clonazepam was reduced and stopped. Now I am taking one tablet of Escitalopram in evening. Two buspirone in evening and one buspirone in morning. I am regaining the interest in work and feel my mood elevated with this drug. I do not have any side effect so far. I have been taking it for about 7 months and doc says she will continue for about 7 to 8 months more.

All it does is make me sleepy, told to take it in morning, however, my day to day activities were at a stand still, no desire to do anything, switched from wellbutrin 75 mg to cipralex 10mg - just feel lousy, no sex drive since 2004, hate this!

I am feeling a little vacant in my head, still able to function just fine, I have taken pills for almost 1 week. Thanks

Taken for GAD and depression. I gained about 15-20 lbs, however, I did have eating disorder issues that have mainly disapeared which could be the reason for the weight gain. Major loss of sex drive, extreme night sweats and nightmares when missing a doses, as well I had SSRI discontinuation syndrome so bad that I felt suicidal. I am supposed to be on 1 1/2 pill dose but found I was sleeping constantly (my brother is also taking this and experiences extreme fatigue as well). Consistency is definitly key when taking this medication as it is highly effective but has undesirable side effects when you miss does or try to stop taking it. I experienced electric shock sensation, vertigo, as well as extreme anxiety and irritability when I attempted to discontinue. Read More Read Less

I was suffering from anxiety for the past 30-years. I have been on regular treatment of one or the other medicine. I had nervous breakdown 3-times. Thanks to this medicine, I have great improvement in my personality after I have started this medicine. I am taking 10-mg per day in the night. All other medicines are stopped. Had I got this earlier in my life, my life would have changed for better.

I was on it for quite a while a couple years ago, and it really helped my depression and anxiety. I found more at ease and I wasn't as irritable.

Has stopped my remembering having night terrors

The only medication that has worked for me.

I have been using for 5 months. Disiness, insomnia and slight excitation I have experienced. In the mean time anxiety was resolved... Dose: 20 mg/day now. But still I did not completely recovered. % 80 better..

Headache,affects my eyes, feel unsteady. shaky inside, makes me cold.Gives me pain in my soft tissue in my butt, and gout. cold head. freezing.

I have been taking this medicine for about 3 years. I have taken up to like 100mg or something from the lowest dosage. It did work for awhile and then i just had to keep upping the dosage and currently I got of the med to change over to a different one.

i feel better exceptfor the loss of sex drive

I have BPD and severe mood disorder, not to mention depression, suicidal ideation and PMDD. After I tried Zoloft for more than 2 month, I still had unbearable nausea. Shrink stopped me on Zoloft and put me on this. I felt great in the first week without the uncontrollable crazy mood and nauseous feeling...just a bit of insomnia and huge lost interest in sex. OK with hubby as he doesn't want me to kill myself than just losing sex drive.

I suffered with really bad panic and anxiety attacks and depession it was brilliant for the anxiety and panic but not withthe depession.

I started taking this medication 5 yrs ago. It has worked fine until lately, I started having severe anxiety attacks again.