Escitalopram Health Feed

The age at which she had the breakdown is not surprising: late adolescence is normally the period when most people have these breakdowns and are indicative of childhood influences and genetic factors. This is the last time that she will get to resolve the issue and if it is not treated now it can lead to a permanent condition into adulthood. These symptoms must be reported to the doctor so that he can review the dosage or the medication. At her age, this disease can be quite crippling and diffic...more

Hi, I would suggest you to take some counseling sessions along with medication. Refrain yourself from stopping the medicines on your own. See a psychiatrist again to restart the medication.

It will take sometime
you be fine take medicine regularly. Also take therapy with medicine consult with me or any psychologist for therapy and counseling online or in person all the best.

It is not due to the medications, your paranoia makes you think so. The medication dose might be very less to address your symptoms. So consult your psychiatrist again and get the dose changed. The symptoms are most commonly due to the illness which shows exacerbations and remissions. All the best.

Dear user medicines artificially control your anxiety, its not a permanent solution. You can take medicines for sometimes but you have to work on your own, your will power, your mind and thoughts for better results and quit medication gradually. For bp and heart problems root cause is stress and anxiety, so please understand yourself, your mind and your thoughts. Counseling is a best solution to your problem. Change your routine and life style, add some more activities and exercise to your routi...more

The condition will start improving in approximately 15 days after which you l have to visit your psychiatrist for dose adjustment.

Petril medication especially the plain preparation of 0.5 mg and 0.25 mg are both only anti-anxiety medications and you will do well with the addition of an anti depressant. If you believe that your previous medications made you more anxious, you should be able to use other medications without experiencing such distressing anxiety. Since you mention that there is a recurrence of depression and hyperacidity, kindly contact us so that we can suggest medications appropriately.
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Dear lybrate-user,
please do not worry so much. Your worry is making you ill. First of all, the kind of pain that you are describing is not migraine or any other pain most probably. Such pain happens when a person thinks too much, gets anxious or tense very often. Tension headache is one possibility. None of the prescriptions are wrong, antidepressants also have tension relieving and pain reducing properties hence can be prescribed for tension headaches. They are not addictive and the one pr...more

Dear lybrate-user,
You are suffering too long with depression. Don't lose hopes. 20% of depressions are treatment resistant. For those like you, psychiatrists have many treatment options. You can take a course of 6 - 9 ECTs (electroconvulsive therapy) or rTMS sessions, or CBT (cognitive behaviour therapy), or you can add samE, Vitamin D3 (if it is low), thyroxine, 5HT, fish oil, etc. Your psychiatrist will be able to prescribe them for you. Please remember that these treatments are in additi...more

This is a phase it will pass please trust your psychiatrist and be patient medicines take 4 weeks to show 50% effect.