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    Re: Just started taking Cipralex 5mg for the first time

    Quote Originally Posted by panic_down_under View Post
    Antidepressants often make anxiety worse at the beginning so if irritability is one of your main anxiety symptoms this will likely worsen too. However, the heightened anxiety is usually short-lived, generally resolving within a couple of weeks, but it may spike again after dose
    Yep I've definitely noticed that I'm still getting that heightened anxiety about 3 to 4 hours after taking my meds (usually about 2-3pm) and I'm still getting nausea and indigestion plus my appetite is very on and off. Its been two weeks since I started the 10mg...wondering if taking them at night might help instead? I wouldn't want to be kept up at night with side effects though especially as poor sleep was one of the first reasons I went on this medication! I feel so low like I'll never feel better without side effects still plaguing me...I'm emetephobic so the nausea makes me especially anxious in public places. The worst feeling is that I my general all round anxiety is decreased but I'm still getting these anxious spikes as you put it.

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    Re: Just started taking Cipralex 5mg for the first time

    Quote Originally Posted by sazarrama View Post
    Its been two weeks since I started the 10mg...wondering if taking them at night might help instead? I wouldn't want to be kept up at night with side effects though especially as poor sleep was one of the first reasons I went on this medication!
    It is worth a shot, but it may not necessarily make much difference. After about a week at the same dose escitalopram plasma levels stabilize to a steady-state of around 2.5 times the peak from a single dose and then don't change much across 24 hours.

    I'm emetephobic so the nausea makes me especially anxious in public places.
    Ginger and/or vitamin B6 supplements may help with nausea.

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