Hello Everyone,
I posted a while ago about trying to get off Lexapro...I have been on anti-depressants on and off, mostly on, since 1988. Anyway, not sure if all of you know but trying to get off this stuff is HELL. I have researched a lot and it seems that docs don't believe there is any problem with withdrawal, etc. But the internet is full of stories of the hell that people have gone through, even when they taper slowly. Well, I tried it for a month, and even took supplements to help me. I got down to like a crumb of a pill, maybe 1 mg, and still had the brain zaps, restless legs, lost my appetite (can't afford to lose any weight), light headedness, and also moody, snappy, irritated...Then my digestive system got all out of whack. They say that most of the serotonin in our bodies is in our gut, so I was wondering if that was part of it. I just would go from not "going" to going a lot, and not hungry, feeling strange...scary for me.

Sooo, needless to say, I guess I'm gonna go back to maybe 2.5 or 5 mg. But I wonder what this stuff does to your brain if you can't get off it without terrible withdrawals. And I didn't even get off completely. People say that you can have withdrawals for months after. So I am chicken, and can't tolerate feeling all that. And is it okay to take it forever? Also, there is evidence of what is called "poop out," where the stuff just stops working. I am just frustrated that I need to be on this forever it seems.

What do you all think? Please advise me all you who are taking "drugs."