mlondon
07-01-09, 15:55
Hi
I find it really helps to share experiences of being on or/and starting Escitalopram. This is my experience, if anyone has had anything similar or in deed different please write. I think my experience can't be solely due to the meds, I went on holiday 3 days after starting them, then it was christmas, then i went away again and now I am back at work, I am moving to Australia in a month, so all these things are exciting, fun and daunting.
Week 1: 2.5MG
Day 1: I had a vivd nightmare and fitful sleep. Felt sick and spent most of day thinking about nightmare and being scared of it. For the rest of the week these symptoms got less.
Week 2 and 3: 5GM
I take the meds in the evening, I began taking 5mg when I was in the Canary Islands with my mum. I would feel wierd just after taking them, had a headache, felt sick, head felt like it was shaking inside it that makes sense, felt on edge. When felt very anxious (getting plane home) felt like I was going mad and thought of nightmare images again which scared me.
I continued to take 5mg over xmas and new year, generally felt ok. Spaced out feeling which I had before started taking meds cleared up and began to feel a bit better though still anxious.
Week 4: - 10MG
Day 1 (saturday night just gone): Felt ok, bit shakey but then I was starting work then next day again so attributed it to that. Funny taste in mouth and dry throat.
Day 2: (Sunday) Dry throat, taste in mouth, couldn't sleep until 6am and then got up for work at 8am, felt on edge.
Day 3: (Monday)Felt on edge again as though going mad. Slept about 5 hours.
Day 4: (Tuesday)Still felt on edge. Exhausted , feel asleep in evening and woke feeling very strange, not really here or trapped, a bit in a daze. Slept 5 hours.
Day 5: (Wednesday) Today I feel very spaced out and tired. I had a panic attack in a work meeting and almost called my mum to come and meet me, I felt detached, short of breath and unable to speak. Still feeling quite spaced out.
I find it really helps to share experiences of being on or/and starting Escitalopram. This is my experience, if anyone has had anything similar or in deed different please write. I think my experience can't be solely due to the meds, I went on holiday 3 days after starting them, then it was christmas, then i went away again and now I am back at work, I am moving to Australia in a month, so all these things are exciting, fun and daunting.
Week 1: 2.5MG
Day 1: I had a vivd nightmare and fitful sleep. Felt sick and spent most of day thinking about nightmare and being scared of it. For the rest of the week these symptoms got less.
Week 2 and 3: 5GM
I take the meds in the evening, I began taking 5mg when I was in the Canary Islands with my mum. I would feel wierd just after taking them, had a headache, felt sick, head felt like it was shaking inside it that makes sense, felt on edge. When felt very anxious (getting plane home) felt like I was going mad and thought of nightmare images again which scared me.
I continued to take 5mg over xmas and new year, generally felt ok. Spaced out feeling which I had before started taking meds cleared up and began to feel a bit better though still anxious.
Week 4: - 10MG
Day 1 (saturday night just gone): Felt ok, bit shakey but then I was starting work then next day again so attributed it to that. Funny taste in mouth and dry throat.
Day 2: (Sunday) Dry throat, taste in mouth, couldn't sleep until 6am and then got up for work at 8am, felt on edge.
Day 3: (Monday)Felt on edge again as though going mad. Slept about 5 hours.
Day 4: (Tuesday)Still felt on edge. Exhausted , feel asleep in evening and woke feeling very strange, not really here or trapped, a bit in a daze. Slept 5 hours.
Day 5: (Wednesday) Today I feel very spaced out and tired. I had a panic attack in a work meeting and almost called my mum to come and meet me, I felt detached, short of breath and unable to speak. Still feeling quite spaced out.