Side effects of Lexapro

I am having problems with lexapro.  When I take it I feel like I drank 20 cups of coffee and I get really shaky. I am now on a low dose, but I am miserable.  Is there anything that can take away these side effects?

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

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[flurgle]

Male, 41

Had been on 300 mg./day Wellbutrin for a year, which was activating and generally good, basically fixing my "depression" which had been bad, but thought I could use a little more lift emotionally than I was getting, so added Lexapro, 10 mg./day.

Very quickly the sexual side effects began: decreased interest in sex, serious difficulties achieving orgasm -- basically impossible in intercourse at all. Spoke to doc, he suggested cutting to 5 mg./day and seeing if it helped. I'm commencing that week now.

If it doesn't I'm considering replacing it with Buspar, which isn't an SSRI, and affects norepinephine both seratonin with no sexual side effects, blocking the specific mechanism responsible for sexual side effects in SSRIs. If it makes me drowsy or some such, I may just go back to Wellbutrin exclusively, which by and large was pretty good for me without any sexual side effects. My doc feels that if one SSRI does this to me, they pretty much all will.

At any rate, I have to say that for me, Wellbutrin didn't mitigate the sexual side effects of an SSRI, or else, perhaps god knows they'd have been even worse without it. That would be pretty grim.

[tooth fairy]

I have been taking lexapro since Feb. I am a dental hygienist and when I am at work looking down my head shakes. It is very frustrating. I don't know if it is side effect of lexapro or a neurological disease. I have consulted my GP about the problem and he was not concerned he said it was stress related most likely and gave me a Rx for atenolol 25 mg.