Escitalopram side-effects?

[Babybear]

Hi everyone,

I don't post very often but i do lurk quite a bit....with three kids I don't find much time to comment!:blush:

Anyway, I started on escitalopram three weeks ago after first being on Cymbalta.I had to stop that after two weeks as I wasn't sleeping at all.

I've been given it for post-natal depression and panic/anxiety which I've had for well over two years now after a period of six months in my life which were so traumatic with bad things happening, one after the other that in the end I couldn't even leave the house.I'm still an anxious person and somehow claustrophobic ( where that's come from I'll never know!) but I'm a million times better than I was.

I'm currently on 10mg of escitalopram and the side effects haven't been that bad......the one thing that's persisting though ( if it IS a side effect that is ) is I sweat profusely at night....is this normal?Does anyone else have this problem?I'm seeing my GP next week, what reasons would she have to up my dose if I'm feeling a little better?

Hope I'm making sense!!

Love, Sherilyn xx

[joannap]

hi sherilyn

i have been on citalopram (same drug i think) for 2.5 weeks and i always wake up really sweaty! x 20mg is the standard dose so she may put you up 10mg. some doc's start you off on a lower dose to lessen the side effects. i didn;t really sleep on mine for 2 weeks either but that is starting to pass now.

[soggypops]

Hi
Im on this tablet too. I was on 5mg for 6 weeks then on 10mg and every night i get so hot that i fling the quilt off me and have to open the window. I have been having alot of palpatations since upping my tablets , but hopefully it wont last too long ?
Anyway stick with it and i hope you feel a littlwe better soon.
Hugs
Elly
x

[Miss Ellen]

bad things happening, one after the other



funny how that happens. It started with my mum getting ill and dying, then bad weight gain, money problems, and awful relationship with a cheating pervert, an awful boss at work followed by unemployment, then death of a deeply-loved pet. All in under 2 years, now i am in major rut of lonely severe depression laced with panic.

I've been on no tablets for 8 months to try and getmy figure back, but need anti-d's