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Posted on 3/12/18 at 11:28 am to zacata88
Good Lord how many fricking pill poppers post on TD?
Seems like 90% of the OT is on something. Good grief
.
Seems like 90% of the OT is on something. Good grief
.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 11:28 am to Landmass
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I took it and could not reach orgasm. Stopped taking it and could. I would rather not impact that part of my life.
I had that issue with Paxil. Simply moved on to another flavor.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 11:29 am to 50_Tiger
No one is taking something like Lexapro for fun 
Posted on 3/12/18 at 12:34 pm to zacata88
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zacata88
I was in this same exact boat. Changed my life for the better.
Feel free to email me.
<—— @ yahoo
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 1:45 pm to zacata88
I took it for anxiety but was only taking 5mg a day. It did help me and I didn't notice any side effects when I stopped taking it.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 2:36 pm to MLCLyons
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This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 10:23 am
Posted on 3/12/18 at 2:41 pm to zacata88
I've taken it for 1.5 years now and am down 40lbs. It won't mess with your weight if you dont want it to.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 2:43 pm to zacata88
They make this natural supplement called whiskey that helps with anxiety
Posted on 3/12/18 at 2:43 pm to zacata88
I was on that stuff for about 4 years. Getting off of it was brutal. withdrawals were just killer.
Glad I'm off them and I'm pretty much done with big pharma
Glad I'm off them and I'm pretty much done with big pharma
Posted on 3/12/18 at 2:43 pm to zacata88
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I was prescribed Lexapro for persistent and severe anxiety,
Go see an endocrinologist before you take anything. Have them run an entire panel on you. Including thyroid and estrogen or E2 as it's called. Not just testosterone.
Include vitamin D as well in that panel.
Then sit down and discuss this with the Endo before you take Lexapro.
If that Endo doesn't want to run all that including your estrogen then find another one.
Many of these panic attacks and anxiety problems are turning out to be hormonal in nature. Having an overactive thyroid can also cause you significant amounts of anxiety.
Don't just take a pill. Go do homework on your body.
Edit to say they put me on that and it wasn't good. Tried other shite not awesome. Finally found a doc to look at everything and found my test was low due to a chronic illness and medications. fixed that. Still anxious and felt bad. Found my estrogen was waaaay high. Got that down. Dropped a ton of weight. Anxiety pretty much gone.
My viatmin D was crazy low due to poor absorption with no colon anymore. Man just taking my viatmin D was amazing. Go read.
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 2:45 pm to zacata88
Could not orgasm. It was bad. Beat that thing to a pulp. No satisfaction.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 2:47 pm to zacata88
Describe the anxiety that you are being treated for, please.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 3:05 pm to deltaland
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Your dick won't get hard. Why I stopped taking it
ding ding ding
Rather be anxious and get my whistle wet.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 3:08 pm to RonLaFlamme
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Was this a challenge or an impossibility? Big factor for me as well.
It's a challenge, not an impossibility. Yes there are times when I can and times when I can't, but the benefits of taking it out weight this for me.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 3:29 pm to zacata88
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Posted on 3/12/18 at 3:57 pm to thejudge
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Many of these panic attacks and anxiety problems are turning out to be hormonal in nature. Having an overactive thyroid can also cause you significant amounts of anxiety.
Is this new research? If so, do you have a link? Believe me, I've done my research and most of what I've read attributes panic attacks to abnormalities with the amygdala.
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:07 pm to zacata88
Has your Doctor recommended or talked about taking a pharmacogenomic test to first find out if you can metabolize Lexapro correctly. If you are having anxiety over side effects you can do this beforehand so you know exactly if you should start at a lower dosage or another medication all together. Also if the test shows you don't have a genetic issue with metabloziing Lexapro this should help with your confidence in talking the meds. As with all meds adherence is the key.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:50 pm to High C
No i do not off the top of my head.
15 years of dealing with this shite is about all i can offer. Many hours spent researching and reading and starting to put things together from reading both sides of the forums... both hormone replacement and SSRI's.
It seems that if you need them they work. I was switched to several and none worked. Started leading me to thinking something else was off. It was actually my wife who pressed my doctor when i was "too young" to have low T to check me. All the side effects of medications put my T at like 83 and my estrogen at like 60 (high is 45). Viatamin D was in the TANK. Cholesterol was low and unreadable ( you need that as it is a building block of your hormones).
taking a look from the outside and troubleshooting lead my down this conclusion. Interviewing people i work with as well as those online and asking various medical professionals i knew i seem to put it all together.
Hormones control everything you do. When i was on way to high a dose of testosterone and not taking it correctly (most people dont take it right as the doctors just read a pamphlet and don't know how to administer it) i was a nervous fricking wreck. Looking at how my wife reacts when she is PMSing they were similar. I was aromatasing all the free testosterone and converting it all to estrogen. Estrogen blocker was added (small amount compounded at a pharmacy)to bring my numbers down to 22.
I've kept a medical journal for years now with my chronic UC diagnosis, subsequent years of treatment culminating with my entire colon resection(high grade dysplasia) coupled with the endocrine problems associated with all the medication i feel i could really sit and write a dissertation on it. I now wish i would have gone into the endocrine field to help those with how much I've been helped and learned.
I feel like a champ again. I'm not an MD. I just think all avenues should be exhausted before taking something so drastic. On one of them i wanted to sit on my floor and blow my fricking brains out. That was the last straw. They were not solving an issue as that was not the problem. The endocrine was. If you look up side effects of you thyroid, vitamin D deficiency, high estrogen, low T... put it all together. Reading between the lines it seems that much of what is being dished out like pez in the SSRI's have symptoms that mimic endocrine problems.... i'm just saying those are not to difficult to verify and dismiss before the SSRI route...
15 years of dealing with this shite is about all i can offer. Many hours spent researching and reading and starting to put things together from reading both sides of the forums... both hormone replacement and SSRI's.
It seems that if you need them they work. I was switched to several and none worked. Started leading me to thinking something else was off. It was actually my wife who pressed my doctor when i was "too young" to have low T to check me. All the side effects of medications put my T at like 83 and my estrogen at like 60 (high is 45). Viatamin D was in the TANK. Cholesterol was low and unreadable ( you need that as it is a building block of your hormones).
taking a look from the outside and troubleshooting lead my down this conclusion. Interviewing people i work with as well as those online and asking various medical professionals i knew i seem to put it all together.
Hormones control everything you do. When i was on way to high a dose of testosterone and not taking it correctly (most people dont take it right as the doctors just read a pamphlet and don't know how to administer it) i was a nervous fricking wreck. Looking at how my wife reacts when she is PMSing they were similar. I was aromatasing all the free testosterone and converting it all to estrogen. Estrogen blocker was added (small amount compounded at a pharmacy)to bring my numbers down to 22.
I've kept a medical journal for years now with my chronic UC diagnosis, subsequent years of treatment culminating with my entire colon resection(high grade dysplasia) coupled with the endocrine problems associated with all the medication i feel i could really sit and write a dissertation on it. I now wish i would have gone into the endocrine field to help those with how much I've been helped and learned.
I feel like a champ again. I'm not an MD. I just think all avenues should be exhausted before taking something so drastic. On one of them i wanted to sit on my floor and blow my fricking brains out. That was the last straw. They were not solving an issue as that was not the problem. The endocrine was. If you look up side effects of you thyroid, vitamin D deficiency, high estrogen, low T... put it all together. Reading between the lines it seems that much of what is being dished out like pez in the SSRI's have symptoms that mimic endocrine problems.... i'm just saying those are not to difficult to verify and dismiss before the SSRI route...
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