Monday will be week 4 on escitalopram, still have anxiety, on 5mg, I am 58 year old and menopausal, should I updose, would like to hear from people, thanks
Hey Susan,
It might be worth going back to your doctor and asking. I was on 10mg of escitalopram for 4 weeks and I was still feeling horrible so my doctor upped my dose to 20mg. I've been on that for 2 weeks now and have actually felt better! I had weird brain fog that made me yawn all the time for the first 4 days but since then I have been feeling better in myself. My head has stopped spinning which is always one of my bad anxiety symptoms so I'm happy about that. I have been feeling a little weird today but it's coming up to that time of the month and I always feel weird a couple of days before I'm due.
Hope this helped a bit sorry for rambling!
Hope you feel better soon!
I started on 20mg citalopram for anxiety , it took 3 weeks for it to kick it but when it did it was worth it because i had bad migraines . But then on month 8 they took me down to 10mg and that was over a year ago . It doesn’t fully rid of anxiety but instead of being anxious 24/7 i get episodes every other day