Posted by bleauberry on January 20, 2008, at 19:39:47 [reposted on January 23, 2008, at 8:22:05 | original URL]
In reply to Lexapro and Prozac, posted by nihocl on January 20, 2008, at 14:28:34
> Anyone take both? If so, at what doses?
If you mean both at the same time, yes I did. The doctors in the hospital put me on 5mg lexapro and 10mg prozac, based on that I told them I liked the calm of lexapro but I liked the antidepressant of prozac. Idiot doctors had no creativity of their own.
Anyway, lexapro pretty much drowned out prozac. The combo had me more depressed than before, similar to what lexapro by itself did to me.
I have taken them separately as well. Lexapro was a calming one, after the first startup anxiety side effects, but then got real dulling and depressing. Like it just squashed dopamine to death. Prozac was much more enlivening, but really needed something to cut the edge. Neither was good at my core symptom of anhedonia, though prozac was better at that than lexapro.
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