can't stay awake W/ lexapro

[thisiswhatwedo]

I have been on lexapro for 9 months now and slowly have gotten to a therapeutic level of 20mg.s . I take it for anxiety panic and obsessive thinking. Now I can't get out of bed and need to sleep a lot and nap and am very tired. I have had days when I forget to take it and I feel better. Now this is the only medication I have ever been able to take for any length of time and it does work and I don't feel I can go off of it right now. I have tried a million different ways to take it times splitting up pills and now I take only 10 mg's every third day.
still I can't do this much longer.
any experience with this and or advise would be so helpful

[bjorker]

This is probably a dumb (obvious) question, but do you take it at night?
That's really all I can think of off the top of my head. I know I have to take my Celexa at night because it knocks me out pretty good, which for me is an excellent side-effect.

I wonder if playing around with how much & how often you take it is actually not giving your body enough time to adjust? What's the longest you went without changing your dosages around?

[thisiswhatwedo]

I have tweeked with the times and honestly it makes me tired all the way through the day until about the 22-23 hour it is in my system< I think taking it around 7 or 8pm does it best b/c I get real knocked out with in the hour but hopefully can get up in the AM
cutting back on the dose today

[bjorker]

Have you tried any other SSRIs? It's common to go through multiple before finding the one that works best. I know it's a huge PITA to adjust to a new one each time, but it's worth it in the end if you can find the one that does only exactly what it's supposed to. You may not have that side effect on another med.

It concerns me that you adjust the dosages, how often? I'm certain that would do weird things to me.