Author: AtticsOfMyLife
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:35 pm
| raudy1975 wrote: |
| Hi, when I completely got off Subs, I then got on Lexapro. Lexapro also helps for Anxiety so it helped General Anxiety and depression. It helped me for about a year after I got off Subs. I think if the SSRI has helped you in the past, I would try to get back on it. Anxiety or lack of motivation (for long periods of time) are symptoms of depression. It will probably help motivate you during the day. |
thanks for the response. yea, it has helped me (i think). its all kind of muddled, because I was taking it while i was taking suboxone, and got off both at around the same time. and since suboxone is so strong, its not far fetched to think that the SSRI didnt help much, but all the improvements i was seeing was from being on suboxone and off opiates.
When you were off subs (the first 6 months, lets say… when you really start feeling better) did you feel like you were still in some fog because of the Lexapro? When you got off Lexapro a year later, did you feel any side effects like lack of motivation etc? Im just afraid that if my brain just needs time to re adjust, that by getting on an SSRI now it will only postpone the inevitable, and I will be feeling this lack of motivation later on when I get off the SSRI… if that makes sense
Even while on Lexapro but getting the subs out of your system, were you feeling better and better? or did you not really feel like "yourself" until AFTER you got off Lexapro as opposed to after you got off subs?