Going off Lexapro? (Excited/Worried)

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Hello everyone, i haven't been on the site for a while now, maybe 2 months or so?! i was on here A LOT, like 5 or 6 times a day, when i started taking Lexapro for my Panic Attacks and Globus Hystericus and it was an AMAZING help for me, and everyone on here helped me so so so much! I couldn't thank you all enough. :)

Well, 7 months later of 10mg Lexapro and i have COMPLETELY changed my life around, i can not tell you how different things are, 7 months ago i could not leave the house, i couldn't go to a shop, talk to family members, be around anything more than 1 person i had no life and when i went on the drug it changed everything, since then i have traveled abroad for 3 months STRAIGHT!! I can go shopping go on a plane go on a train talk to people wait in lines Everything i could never dream of doing again a year ago.

And now that i am doing so good, i have decided to cut back from 10mg to 5mg over the next 2 months and if all goes well maybe even come off the drug. I am really excited on one point, like i will get my life back, but very nervous and scared on the other hand, cos i am afraid it will come back if i go off it, i feel like the drug is a safety blanket for me a bit and don't no how i will be without it.. I just wanted to hear or know some stories about everyone else who came off the drug what are your experiences how did you get on, where you fine without it??

Thanks, hope to hear from all your great people that helped me so much in the past months! This website is a lifesaver.. Well done.... x