Lexapro withdrawal heart palpitations

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475307 tn?1209791613 My mom thinks that my heart palpitations are due to cymbalta (which I am taking for anxiety), which I just started taking a few days ago. Before that, I took lexapro for over two years. I've only been on cymbalta for 10 days and I skipped yesterday because my mom insists that's what's causing my chest pains and heart palpitations. I cried myself to sleep last night and I can't stop crying right now but I have no reason to at all.
Avatar m tn Overall I am starting to feel better everyday, but when I get stressed have been getting some heart palpitations. I was checked out and heart is fine. The other, nearly unmanagable issue is uncontrollable bouts of crying. I cry for every little thing. I broke down in front of my boss today! Not crying from any one specific emotion-could be happy, sad, stressed, frustrated...any emotion will trigger it and once it does the tears just flow.
Avatar f tn Hi and thank you for you email. I tapered off the Paxil under psychiatrist supervision. I tapered off in 7 days but since I've been feeling so bad with the Lexapro, I'm going to taper off the Lexapro and get back on the 10 mg of Paxil. I hope this truly helps me and that the obsessive thoughts will then go away and if I still have the palpitations which I've still been having with the Lexapro as well, then I'll just take a heart medicine for that. Thank you for your support.
Avatar m tn 5mg I began to have cardiac symptoms, which consisted of mainly palpitations and a racing heart. I have had palpitations for years, and have seen a cardiologist which cleared me. We did an echo, numerous ECG, blood work, event monitor, holter monitor and nothing was shown. On the drug, I had very few cardiac symptoms (took for about 3 years), but one of the reasons why I got on the drug was to alleviate these symptoms which I had before and now afterward.
Avatar m tn Hello again. Last night i was experiencing heart palpitations and was getting some bad head rushes. I figured i should get some sleep. But when i woke up i still have the headrushes and its a constant rush in my head. its agrrivating. Oh and my bp is a steady 120 over 80. no variations there. I figured it might just be in my head but i was curious what you guys thought. I am also a very anxious person and i have had panic attacks before.
Avatar f tn I have a history of anxiety diagnosed two years ago that caused chest pain, heart pain, dizziness, feelings of passing out, tingling in hands and feet, shortness of breath, and heart palpitations. I was put on lexapro and wellbutrin. They helped for a little while, but lexapro made me extremely tired. I came down on both lexapro and wellbutrin about a month and a half ago and have been on prozac for the past week.
Avatar f tn I also had to wear a heart monitor a few months back because I was having nonstop heart palpitations. All my tests came back negative and I was told it was anxiety. I too was on meds a few years back and then went off them. Just be careful when you are trying to stop the meds. I had severe insomnia as soon as I stopped taking it. I also feel weakness in my legs and sometimes feel too tired to even get up and walk downstairs. This worries me also. So, I understand what you are going through.
Avatar f tn I always get palpitations but the past week I have been getting them every day all day long on and off. Today I have pains in my chest and my chest feels tight... logic is telling me its just anxiety, Im worried though its something more serious. I know worrying is probably making it worse. Im wondering if what im experiencing can be a sympton of stress and anxiety?
Avatar f tn My doctor thought that Lexapro was not working. I went 3 weeks without taking Lexapro and it was sooo bad. So the doctor put me back on 2.5 mg and a program to taper. Here is my question. Why are I waking up every morning with anxiety, hot, racing heart, and nervous stomach? I stay hot all day. My face feels like it is on fire. My heart fills like it is racing but when I take my pulse rate it seems to be ok.
2216810 tn?1420856876 Hi Sophie ,I didn't experience any side effect expect dry mouth and i 'm not sure if heart palpitations are from Lexapro or from anxiety.
Avatar f tn Hi I have severe avoidance and anxiety especially when it comes to unknown situations and people. I was prescribed 10mg Lexapro by my GP to take once a day. But I'm scared to take it :( It probably would help me, because currently I'm unemployed and have been for a long time, and constantly trapped in my head by obessive bad thoughts. And I lack motivation and social skills. Should I take the Lexapro? I'm so scared of side effects. I take .
1287128 tn?1331134538 i am terrified to be on a stimulant because of the palpitations. she started me on lexapro and xanax (ive had xanax as a as needed med for some time, but funny thing about my anxiety is im scared to take pills) anyways i havent started my lexapro because i dont have insurance for another month. but she wants me to take lexapro for three weeks and use the xanax because i guess the lexapro will increase my anxiety the first couple weeks before making it better.....
Avatar m tn Hi! I have been taking Paxil for 20 years. I have recently been struggling w/ more intense anxiety and depression and irritability. I am switching from Paxil to Cymbalta, and am down from 30 mg of Paxil to 5 mg, and then up to 60 mg of Cymbalta. I feel like I am having a racing heart/palpitations. I am not sure if it's anxiety, Paxil withdrawal, side effects from Cymbalta, or there is something wrong with my heart.
Avatar f tn After taking the drug I started getting severe heart palpitations. My heart would race then slow down as though it had stopped. I started seeing white, I thought I was going to die. The next day I got up I was still swollen, then decided to take a Benedryl, sure enough my swelling went away immediately. However, I foolishly decided to continue taking the antibiotic just in caset. This time my heart palpitations were worse, with hotness as the heart raced and frigid cold as it slowed down.
Avatar m tn Some of which include insomnia, tinnitus (ringing ears), heart palpitations, intense anxiety, depression, and the newest - hives (red rash and itching)! My question is basically are all of these contributed to withdrawal????
Avatar m tn i have taken this for years and never had this effect but just recently aabout a month ago started back on 50 mg of zoloft and i am getting lots of heart palpitations.. going for stress test this month already had echo echo fine couple leaky valves with age but nothing seroius.
Avatar m tn My son is 18 and started having heart palpitations and chills tonight. He also has a headache. He can't relax because this is bothering him so much. He does have a doctors appt tomorrow at 11:15am. Any suggestions to calm the palpitations?
Avatar f tn In the time since, my anxiety has spiked, particularly in the morning/during the day, I get episodes of spiking blood pressure, feel like I have heart palpitations, still have random leg twitching and arm pain, and have trouble sleeping at night because when 4am rolls around my heart starts pounding! Am I still experiencing withdrawal even though I was on such a small dose for such a short time?
Avatar n tn I have heart palpitations and i have been seeing a dr. I have had a 24 hour monitor on and it only showed a few skips. i have had an echo and they say it looks good. I have a pain every once in awhile adn they said it may be angina. I am on a beta blocker and lexapro for anxiety, since they think it might be it. Lately it has gotten worse.. flipping all the time, sometimes so many times in a row i get dizzy, light headed..
Avatar f tn My doctor told me that the results showed that I have an abnormal heart rhythm or heart palpitations. She ordered the blood work and everything came back normal so it wasn't anything serious with my body that was causing this. She then prescribed me to Clonazepam. .5 MG as needed daily. These did wonders for me when I first got on them, I had less panic attacks, I felt relaxed but that shortly stopped working.
Avatar f tn I have been told over the years that my palps are stress related, and am on Lexapro, and Xanax used as needed-I have GAD and panic attacks. My palps came back a year ago after being gone for a long time. After an ER visit, where I was put thru blood work, monitors, Chest xrays, etc ( this was about a year and a half ago) I was sent home being told all was fine. Iam pretty much sedentary--my job is an 8 hr desk job-I do come home and do housework--but no exercise on a daily basis.
404138 tn?1308941656 Lexapro DID give me some withdrawal symptoms, but in fairness, I also was instructed to quit Lexapro cold turkey and got home from my appointment that day to find out my grandfather had passed away and I had to fly to California for the funeral. So, it was not exactly a 'good' time to quit anything for a person diagnosed with anxiety! Particularly when I left the Lexapro at home for that week because I was intending to follow the instructions for cold turkey.
Avatar f tn Xanax worked at first but started to wear off too quickly. I was put on 10mg lexapro and 1mg klonopin 3 x a day. I never wanted to be on drugs but in the hospital I was desperate for relief. I took the lexapro for 2 months and actually got more palpitations from it so I started to wean off and am now off of it for 2 months. The klonopin I managed to wean down to only .25 mg each day and am now having a hard time getting off that small dose.
7970489 tn?1395885877 I was on 5 mg of Lexapro for almost 6 months. I stopped taking it because it made my heart flutter a couple times a week, just as the Celexa did.I noticed a week after i was crying alot about minor things, i thought that was it and it would pass. A week after that i went to get a root canal and my panic increased sky high, all day and night. My heart rate was at 100 bpm on and off all day, minor tremors in my legs at night because of nervousness.