So for starters I have GAD, and I’m currently on Lexapro for it.
I’m 5 months postpartum. I started getting these bad headaches in November and since January, after I gave birth I went through PPD and was put on the Lexapro. Since January my headaches are still here. Litteraly every day. They’re painful, dull and achy and they’re accompanied with horrible pressure and bad dizziness. I wear contacts also and I feel like I may need a new prescription and maybe that would be the cause of my dizziness and headaches but I don’t know. I’m gonna list my symptoms. Please let me know if anyone else experienced/experiences this and reassure me that I’m okay. I’m only 22 and I hate feeling so bad every single day. 
- Headaches-Chronic
-Head Pressure/Eye pressure
-Dizziness and Lightheadedness constant.
-Extreme brain fog
-Feeling spaced out all the time
- Faint feeling everytime I stand
- Nausea
-Head feels tight and heavy
I had all of that postpartum except the headaches but have heard of many other women who get them. Maybe lexapro isn’t working for you as good as it should maybe you need to tell your doctor and maybe try something different.
You sound just like me! I will be 5 months postpartum the 9th and just like you have experienced all of those symptoms! It all started when I was pregnant with the headaches, dizziness, heart palpitations, feeling faint and spaced out! Got to the point where after the baby I was in a terrible place! I didn’t sleep for over a month from the constant worry and was running back and forth to the hospital convinced I had a brain tumor or something! I’m now on Zoloft but it’s taken me a very long time to realize all of this is anxiety. I try to ignore it now and not think about it as much as possible. The headaches still come and go but I try to deal with them the best I can and keep a positive outlook. I’m 22 as well, you really sound just like me!! I totally understand 😭😭
Thank goodness someone understands! 😩
I swear my pregnancy was litterally perfect up until I was about 30 weeks then, everything went downhill. I was induced at 38 weeks because my blood pressure was going up because of ANXIETY and they kept saying it wasn’t Preeclampsia... 🙄 Which it wasnt. I spent the first two weeks after birth on my couch couldn’t move or walk or even eat. It was miserable now all of these stupid symptoms make me feel like I have a brain tumor or something and it drives me nuts.
Same here! Im having these headaches and dull aches in my head. I dont know if its my bliod pressure or my anxiety. I just had my babygirl on 5/21 and my entire pregnancy my blood pressure was fine, during my cesarean my pressure went up then returned to normal up until i was discharged from the hospital. Then the first full day at home my pressure shot up out of the blue very high i believe it was my anxiety so they kept me and gave me blood pressure meds and a mag drip through the iv. And all my labs came back good they tried to say its preeclampsia im not going for it. But these headaches are sending my anxiety THROUGH the roof