Any good feedback from people on Cipralex ??

Treatment and medication
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Hi Damom,

It sounds like you have found the dosage that works for you without so many effects. I wish the doctor would encourage you to stay at the 10 mg dose for a while longer before upping it again to 20 mg. You sound so good, and the holiday obivously has been very positive.

You are the olny person living in your body and experiencing the symptons. Would it be such a big deal to stay on the 10 mg dose for awhile, until you feel ready to try another  increase? You have experienced so many negative symptons with the Cipralex at the higher dose. We are each so different when it comes to medications is it possible that you  might flourish on the 10 mg dosage and 20mg is too much for you? (for now at any rate?) 

I can't tell you how happy I am to hear that you are feeling calmer, you had a rough go with the medication.  Sorry I've been off the site. I 'm back in Canada after going south to care for my 95 year old mother. Traveling usually wipes me out for a while and I'm just getting my feet back on the ground. 

Enjoy this weekend, in spite of the cold weather you are experiencing. Remember that this can be the 

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Hi Karin

Thanks for your support as always. I hope things are better with your Grandmother. Where do you live in Canada ? I live in Montreal. Maybe we are neighbors, lol.

Unfortunately as I said about the 10 mg. I have gotten through the side affects, but the good feeling and calmness is very small. Hence why my Doc wants me to go again to the 20mg and ride it through. I do agree with you about everyone being different and maybe I would do well on just the 10mg. But as I said, there is not enough of a tranquility in my body yet on the 10mg. And the whole purpose and goal and decision I made to be on this medication was so that I would have a quality of life and no anxiety. So I feel I am not there yet. Not in a happy zone yet, but getting there.

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Hi Kate,

Wow !!! Those things you did are amazing progress....you should be proud. And don't call yourself stupid because you are far from stupid. You are strong and courageous, because you are throwing yourself in the "fight and battle" to get better and that is something that takes courage. And don't think for a minute that anyone can do this, because your wrong. Alot alot of people choose the easy road because of the fear to jump in the darkness. I am proud of you for what you did. And going to the cinema and that alone being so hard and you did it. I remember how proud I was of myself when I went to a Restaurant and ate a meal by myself......

I still get the racing heart, in it this morning. Had periods of it last week as well. Not as much as before, so its getting better. I know exactly how you are feeling. So many of us are in the same symptoms. So stick it through Kate, your almost there.....

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That made me cry such a lovely message thank you, I feel so alone in this alone in my thoughts, my partner is amazing and was up with me at 5 this morning as I was so anxious,

I know it's early days but I had hoped it would of all calmed down now but the higher the anxiety when starting them the longer it takes.

Spent 4 hrs playing with my 5 yr old earlier and felt I couldn't breathe was so anxious because I had to sit still and concentrate but I

did it.

I need to stop taking my pulse rate as much as I don't think it helps.

That is great going to a restaurant and eating it's on my list to just not planning when as it makes it worse.

My anxiety is also causing me stomach issues and my IBS is bad so just feel like I am battling every day, I have to go up to 10mg but am soooo worried to as its hard enough as it is xx

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I'm scared as well to raise mine to 20 mg in fear of side affects.. But I think I need the 20 as I still have bouts of health anxiety.. Good luck to both of you.. ❌❌❌

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Hi Kate,

You are definitely not alone....there are zillion amazing, creative, unique and special people like us......so NEVER feel alone. Just having this wonderful site to go to when you do have your moments of doubt and fear, that alone helps me so much.

I don't know how old you are as I am 59, but you sound so much like me. See you are not alone, because as much as you sound like my carbon copy, there are many more carbon copies like us.

It has taken me a long time to accept my anxiety and my somewhat craziness over my health, etc. but slowly even at my age I am finally coming to terms that this is who I am, a wonderful, sensitive, creative, unique woman and the more I realize this and work on myself the more easier it gets to come to acceptance of everything about me. Loving yourself with all the stuff attached to us. With Menopause I came crashing to a high anxiety state again, and turning 60 this year has really kicked me in the ass to let it all go, accept, and move on to another transition in my life. Deciding to go on Cipralex was huge for me as I had never taken anything like this my whole life. But, I need something to get me through all this, to take off the edge and give me some calm to work on the hard stuff to get to the good stuff.

So Kate, you sound younger as you mentioned you have a 5 year old (btw, enjoy this time with your baby as it certainly flys by way too quick). I have a 23 year old girl, love love her, she is my light. Kate, accept that you are having this anxiety, and don't stop taking your pulse, lol, that is the uniqueness of ourselves. But try to find a medium because I know how obssessed we can get with our health.

These crazy symptoms will pass, I thought they never would as well, but they have. Tomorrow I go back to the 20mg and I too will start getting back those uncomfortable symptoms, but I know they will pass as well.....

I am here if you need me......as well as everyone else. You are not alone, and you are special......xo

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When do you take your cipralax?

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Hi Tonya I have health anxiety 😞 so hard and Tiring on top of normal anxiety to x

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Dear Damom, I have been on anti depressants for a long time but nothing worked like Cipralex. When I started it I had the same side effects as you mentioned but those were actually the illness itself and not the cipralex. So the anxities peaked as I started and within a few weeks everything subsided. Its been close to 2 years now and I feel so much better. Just give it sometime to work...

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Oh btw I live in Toronto amidst lots of hustle and bustle. I fear solitary. The sights and sounds of the chaotic life is working wonders too. Sometimes I m so pre occupied noticing the diverese crowd that I forget myself...lol

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Hi Karim 

I am feel luck to see such a good forum, i also started the Cipralax since june 2015. i can feel very drastic chnage in mood , anxirty , i wonder how lonng it take to use it . in you case 5.5 y seems long to me . in aidtion i also use Revotril drop when i have panic attack 

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Hello I just started ciprlex 10 I take it at night. I have been on a week now, my jaw has started to shake or vibrate like when your cold .. also I clench my teeth really hard all the time. It's very uncomfortable, anyone have anything happen like this. Can you shed some light on this for me please. Thank you so much Chantelle

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Hi had this my teeth would chatter so don't worry it will pass

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Thank you. Good to know

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I had so many side effects literally the whole list had muscle spasms to oh so many mine started tailing off at around 4-6 weeks having been on and off these tablets for about 10 yrs I can say the side effects r worth the result I am only 5 mg and it takes all the edge of my anxiety

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I have been on Cipralex for 2 years noand it literally changed my life for the better. I had been battling Panic Disorder for many many years and white-knuckling my way through life until I finally couldn't do it anymore. My Doctor said I tried hard enough and now to try some medication. I went on 5 mp of Cipralex and it took about 3 weeks to fully kick in. I used to drink quite a bit to ease my anxiety but for the first 3 weeks I didn't want to drink alcohol and I lost my appetite so I Iost 20 lbs which was great because I needed it. Slowly over those 3 weeks my anxiety lessened and I began to feel that for the first time in a long time I might be "normal" again. By the end of the 3 weeks I was much improved and by the end of the 1st month Is back to "Normal", back to my teenage years before the Panic Disorder evr took hold of me. It was and still is the best thing I have ever done and wish I had found it sooner. My only complaint is short term memory loss but I keep mentally active (I work in Computers) and I do crossword puzzles and read alot. Don't be afraid to try it and stick with it, it could be the best thing you have ever done. Good Luck 

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I just started on lexapro. What was a sign for you that it started working

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Hi Julie,

I knew my Cipraex was working right away because on Day 3 I received some very bad news that my sister was in the hospital as she had tried to take her ow life. Needless to say I was terrified but I called my other sister and said we must go the hospital now and this is something I wouldn't have been able to handle before the meds. I was able to go to the hospital still a bit nervous but no where near the panic I would have been in had I not been on the meds. I also had to tell my parents the awful news as my other sister couldn't do it and I was able to tell them without falling apart and having a huge panic attack. Thank god my sister is fine now but I have to say the timing of it all is eerily coincidental. If I hadn't been on the meds I wouldn't have been able to be there for my sister. I had my sister come live with me for 2 years so I could take care of her and I wouldn't have been able to do that either as I didn't like people in my house, it was my safe place. We healed eachother and every day further with the meds I felt more and more comfortable. I haven't had a panic attack since I started Cipralex and my life is forever changed. I suspect I will be on them the rest of my life but I'm OK with that, it's the price I pay to feel "normal".Hope this helps and offers you some encouragement to stick with it and speak to yor doctor if you aren't feeling the benefits as you may need to adjust your dose.

Alison

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Hi Kate, iv had my teeth chattering all the time for a week.

Did your symptoms pass?

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Yes it did pass and it will for you to keep going