can you take lexapro with valium

Escitalopram can take up to 4 weeks to reach therapeutic levels, but this time frame is not etched in stone. It may take you 5 weeks, someone else, 3 weeks. I'd give it at least another two weeks before discussing a change with the doctor and more likely the answer may lie in simply upping your dose to the maxiumim of 20mg/d. Escitalopram is basically an antidepressant with unlabeled uses for anxiety/panic. I have PTSD and severe panic disorder.

They are to bring you up if feeling down. Anxiety meds bring you down, to relax you. Some anti-dpressants can make anxiety sufferers feel a whole lot worse. So be careful with your choice. If you need to relax and you end up on something that takes you even higher, it would be a bad move. Apart from that tablets work different for different people. What works on one might not work on you. So it would be unfair to say ' try this ' or ' try that '. Might be no good for you.

I took nothing else with Lexapro. At first Lexapro can make your anxiety and depression worse. Thats what it did for me. But after a week or 2 the side effects should lessen. Good luck with Lexapro! I hope it works out for you.

Do you find that just taking a benzo like Xanax or Valium makes you depressed? I wonder because it seems very common that somebody taking a benzo is also on an SSRI to treat depression. This question is even more real to me because I am withdrawing from Lexapro right now and I am only on my Xanax XR. Today is exactly one week since starting my Lexapro withdrawal and I do feel sad and depressed along with increased anxiety.

I'm currently on lexapro and wellbutrin. I don't take klonopin every day, but i take enough to label it as abuse. I hear that cutting benzo's out of your regimen can cause a lot of anxiety, depression, and even seizures. Will my antidepressants someone help with those symptoms?

is it safe to take valium while on lexapro...ive just started lexapro and it seems that i a even more anxious, my doc gave it to me for anxiety, i do suffer from some depression but anxiety and panic attacks are my major problem...im already not liking this lexapro and its only ben 4 days.

Hi I have had anxiety attacks since i was 6. am now 50. I have taken 5 ml valium for last 30 years without dosage getting higher. I am now on paxil and I hardly ever need to take them. As long as you don't let yourself go over limit you can do it. I also took breaks when I was pregnant twice. It can be done, you just have to limit yourself. Like I take 1 and if i'm really in a bad way I tkae 2 but that is rare that I will go to 2 and I don't take them everyday.

Namaste! What I've heard and read about Abilify I'm not certain I would take it. If your previous cocktail was working I would'nt make any changes. If you just started Lexapro recently, it's going to take some time to get into your system. I'm bipolar I and take Lamictal and Remeron and have had good results, although I also experience anxiety which is treated with valium.

Valium is not a good drug to take to go to sleep with, it may help you drift off, but you could benefit from a milder benzo as mentioned already. Talk to your doctor, I think even Tylenol PM would be better than valium. Valium taken regularly will make you forget stuff and you may have brain fog already.

Are you certain about the names of the medications? I have never heard of Xanax given for that indication. Xanax, or 'alprazolam', works at the same receptor in the brain as alcohol does; 0.5 mg three times per day would be quite sedating. If you are correct, though, you can't argue with success! Xanax is given for short-term anxiety treatment. It causes tolerance iand is addictive. The treatment of choice for long-term anxiety disorders is an SSRI like 'lexapro'.

just talk with your dr and let her know what you are feeling and maybe she will come up with a plan to help you out and you can get some relief from so much anxiety....I am so sorry you are facing this but know you are not alone and we are all here for you....

Have you tried therapy, especially CBT, yet? Learned any relaxation or coping techniques? While Lexapro might well help you, it won't cure you, and while therapy might not either, it seems you should give it a try unless your life is so disrupted you can't function. You can always try the Lexapro if the therapy doesn't work, it isn't going anywhere. If you do take the drug, you should still try therapy to see if you can't learn to cope.

Yes, it can be hard to stop, so can valium. Valium is probably not encouraged for long term use. What works best is when talk therapy works, which isn't often but when it does it lasts longer than any drug and works more completely. And takes longer.

It normally takes about 4 weeks to even notice a difference in how you feel after starting it. Ativan will be tougher but with a proper schedule it can be handled. Just dont take it in your own hands.

I have and still take Lexapro with great results.

There is one thing that you can consider and discuss with your Dr. You could try the Lexapro with xanax to calm your anxiety, then wean off the xanax after the Lexapro begins to work. Or, you could discuss taking valium, which will provide you with relief, too. You'll know fairly quickly if you can tolerate the Lexapro. Everyone is different...

Currently I am in Zoloft withdrawal after having been forced to stop taking it. I took the zoloft on and off for years. Like all SSRIs it's a very nasty drug that I regret ever starting in the first place. I have had some "unexplained" rashes, swelling, rectal bleeding (zoloft induced) and have to stop taking it again. That would be all fine and dandy except because of all the swelling I had to get an awful steroid shot which has put me in an awful tailspin.

You have a lot of misconceptions about how these drugs work. I think you've also gotten a very odd sense from someone that Zoloft caused your rectal bleeding but you say you were told it didn't cause the swelling. Lots of things can cause rectal bleeding, including hemorrhoids but also harder to find and diagnose anal fissures (had one, so I know).

I realize this was only two days but can anyone tell me about the negatives that go along with prolonged use of Valium. Thanks in advance for any direction.

s bascially your body getting use to the drug, once your system does the jittery, panicky feelings will subside but if it is too much for you to take then you need to talk to your doc and see if there is anything he/she can give you to counteract these feelings. You don't and should not have to suffer with this inital settling in period, call your doc.

Escitalopram, (Lexapro) needs to reach therapeutic levels in your body, which can take anywhere from 1-4 weeks. While you are waiting for this level to be reached, you are not completly "covered" from experiencing anxiety attacks. It is NOT the Lexapro causing you to BEGIN having more attacks. You're simply feeling the anxiety which was already there and which the Lex will eventually control. How long have you been on it?

m always terrified to take meds. My panic attacks started with a bad reaction to Effexor... ever since I have never been the same. Klonopin has been the only thing that works for me but I am so scared of becoming addicted or building up a tolerance, does the same dose still work for you even after all these years?

While it can take up to 4-8 weeks to reach the FULL effect, some people have felt results much sooner, like within a week. Try to stay calm as you can, Lexapro will kick in soon for you and you will start feeling better. If you start to feel a panic attack come on, you can always get on here and talk to someone as you go through it. I know how terrible panic attacks are....most of us do. I've been going through them daily for almost two months now. Slowly coming out of them.

I am now prescribed .5mg xanax 2times a day 20 mg of valium at bed time along with lexapro and trazadone (if needed). I am also prescribed 100mg neurontin 3 times per day in between the xanax to help with withdrawal symptoms. Is this a safe cocktail and is it hard to get off neurontin?

I have had positive experiences with medications like these and found them a very useful tool when they are combined with talk therapy. Counseling is probably the most important step you can take to attain long term relief in my opinion, but the combination of the meds and the counseling seemed to work the best for me. Just keep in close contact with your prescribing doctors and express your concerns. Keep us posted!

It would probably be better to take valium for the generalized anxiety disorder, but I would still need the xanex to deal with panic attacks. I don't think many doctors would give both type of benzos (at least mine won't). Therefore, I have to deal with it this way. I wish there were some other way, but have tried valium and a lot of the antidepressants, and nothing works for panic attacks like the xanex. I have been fighting and fighting the need to be on the xanex.

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