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Will lexapro side effects go away soon?

My doctor put me on 10mg lexapro 1x a day and 10 mg doxepin. I took them both last night and was fine for a little bit but after I fell asleep for 45 minutes I woke up and threw up multiple times. I was wide awake and couldn't fall back asleep but after I finally did when I woke up in the morning I had the worst anxiety I've ever had. I couldn't get myself out of bed all day and felt like the world was going to end. My chest was tight and I couldn't focus on anything for more than 2 minutes in addition to the fact that my brain was going a million miles a minute and I couldn't get it to stop. I never want to feel like this again will these side effects go away soon?
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Are you seeing a psychiatrist or a regular doc?  I don't know what you've tried in the past, how you got to this point, and how severe your problems were before trying medication, but it makes no sense to me to try two different classes of antidepressants at the same time.  For one thing, it doesn't allow you to see if just one would do the trick.  For another, it poses two sets of side effects instead of one and you don't know which drug is doing what.  Personally, and I'm not a medical professional, just someone who has been on the drug merry-go-round for way too many years, I'd stop taking both drugs and get a psychiatrist if you really want to try medication.  You might also tell us exactly what's been going on, how old you are, and what you've tried before so we can make some sense of how you got to this point.  There is a reason why some people end up on several meds instead of one or two, and that is, a lot of failure.  There's also a theory called augmentation that claims better success with multiple drugs.  But the way that's supposed to be practiced, you start with one drug, it works but not as well as desired, so you add to it.  You don't start by throwing someone on two different antidepressants at the same time.  
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