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Experiences with Escitalopram? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Recently got prescribed 10MG by my doctor because he thinks my anxiety is affecting my hypertension. Been about a month now and it seems like it's maybe working, my BP is down. So far no side affects, my Doc said it could affect my libido or even give me ED, but so far I can still... uhhh... do the deed just fine. Also no weight gain, if anything I've lost a few pounds.

Idk just curious people experiences.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Been on 20mg for depression for a few years now. Never heard of it being used for BP, but it's been good for my mental health I think. I definitely get brain zaps if I miss more than a day in a row tho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well it's more that my anxiety causes BP issues.

Wtf are brain zaps?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

When you stop a lot of antidepressants, some people will feel like an uncomfortable shock going through your head randomly. Depends on the person and medication tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very unpleasant side effect of going off some antidepressants. It feels more or less exactly how it sounds. Its like the feeling you get when you hear someone scrape a fork across their teeth when they're eating (that might just be me)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I had a bad time with escitalopram and the prescribing doctor was doing a terrible job of supervising how I was responding to meds.

He kept incresing the dose to ever-worsening side effects to the point that I suspect I had a mixed manic state or that something really screwy was going on.

Got to the point where I couldn't bear the thought of another day on it so I stopped cold turkey because the doctor wasn't listening to my issues with it.

It was a long time ago but I had about a week of the most intense brain zaps and then a very, very long time of them gradually reducing. Even the slightest movement of my eyes would bring on another attack. I imagine that's what torture must feel like.

Don't do what I did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Never heard of it being used for BP

I could be wrong, but @[email protected] may be using BP to mean blood pressure, not bipolar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's what I understood BP as.

I'm bp2 also and have lamotrigine for that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Should have made that clear, yeah I have hypertension.