Has anyone had this happen with Lexapro?

[mami2karina]

Since I was 15 years old I have been on several different medications for depression.  First tried Paxil, then Lexapro, then Effexor, then my doc decided to go back to the Lexapro.  Well, I hadn't been to see him for over a little over a year and my script ran out, I called his office immediately and asked for a refill until he could see me.  He refused and said he could not fit me into his schedule for a month. In the meantime I went through severe withdrawl from this drug.  I literally felt as if I was crawling out of my skin.  I couldn't sit still at all, I was pacing back and forth in my living room and decided since it was nice out to take a walk, I figured I'd wear myself out, not the case, I was walking around in the dark by myself for 3 HOURS straight.  After that I decided to go back home and try to go to sleep.  Well, that didn't work.  My bf said something to me and I completely flipped out on him and kicked him in the chest to the point that he fell off of my bed, and I have a really high sitting bed, the mattress is over 2 feet off the ground.  I felt so bad that I did this to him and I couldn't stop crying.  He dumped me at the ER and they gave me one dose of the medication and said to call my doc in the morning.  

[mami2karina]

Needless to say he did nothing.  Before I could see him I began having terrible thoughts of suicide, I ended up crashing my brand new car into a 45 foot tall metal light pole at 80mph at 1:30 in the morning.  This is terrible and I am no longer on the Lexapro anymore, but has anyone else had this happen to them?  I felt as if I were crazy, but I've done a lot of research on the internet and found that lots of people have tried to commit suicide while on this drug that is supposed to keep them from doing just that.  I was normal not suicidal, I have a wonderful 3 year old daughter that I love dearly and I would never want her to be left without her mommy and her daddy.  But that night nothing in the world mattered, I just wanted to die.  I felt like I was going through withdrawl from some terrible drug like heroin.

[sparkeler]

Your doctor should have NEVER let you stop cold turkey.  The side effects of coming off of this can be brutal.  Your reaction to this is no doubt due to having no lexapro.  Your doctor should be ashamed of himself because he should know better.  Go to the ER, if you have to.  This is terrible.

[jenny07]

I would SUE that idiot doctor if I were you.
Then, I'd report him to the A.M.A. and to the head of the health system he practices out of.
What an ASS your doctor is!
Even HOUSE isn't as cruel as that! (lol, hope you all know who 'house' is)
But, joking aside, THAT is ridiculous.
You poor thing...you should have never had to go through that.

[jenny07]

I tried to post this earlier, but the boards were messed up at the time.
That doctor is an ASS. I'd call a lawyer, and report him to the A M A before he hurts someone else with his INCOMPITENCE!!!
You should have never had to suffer like that. All he had to do was call in a refill and show you how to taper off of them. A 3 minute phone call to a pharmacy and a 5 minute phone call to you would have been all he needed to do, and he was 'too busy' to do it?!?!
OH, HELLLLLLLLLL NO!!!!!!!!!
Sue him......I really think you have a good malpractice case on this idiot!

[mami2karina]

Really?  This all happened last July and I'm sure too much time has passed, but this to me was ridiculous and when I saw this forum I thought I might ask if anyone else had problems with the drug.  My doctor, well, is no longer my doctor, and the nurse at the hospital when I went to the ER was so mad she called and chewed him out the next day.  I was like hallucinating things as well, it was crazy.  I am young, I'll be 21 next month.  I've been on antidepressants for over 5 years now and no doctor had ever let that happen to me.  I figured when I called him that he would send me in a refill for a at least a month until I could get into to see him, but no, he wouldn't even do that.  And I don't have insurance so I pay everything OUT OF POCKET, believe me, this is not where I wanted my money to go to.  I am a single parent and I couldn't afford this, but it's literally my sanity so I have to and he goes and does this.  I was shocked.  Even more so when I crashed my new car and lost $15K just like that.  It's been really hard to cope with and so many different things happened during that period of time that I would normally never do and I had no clue what was going on.  Until I crashed my car for no apparent reason no one really thought too much into what was going on with me, then my mom started looking stuff up online about Lexapro and gave me the info, it was scary.

[ScaredinNY]

That's a really horrible experience with the doctor.  At the least, he should have given you a partial script until you could see him.  Was it actually the doctor you spoke with, or a receptionist or nurse?  I've gotten so fed up with speaking to the nurse at my doc's office that I just ask for the doc's voicemail, and she always calls me back.

In any event, I have been on Lexapro about two years (Paxil before that), and I find that I get angry very easily if I miss a couple of doses, and just in general feel out of sorts.    

[mami2karina]

It was actually the idiot doctor that I talked to.  He's an idiot apparently.  But yeah, if I missed even one dose I was freaking out on anybody and everybody and I couldn't have that, I was working in the Consumer Relations department for a very big company,  I helped people all over the world with their problems and I couldn't be getting upset like that.  It was bad and effected me greatly, I ended quitting my job, something I would not normally do.  I feel bad about it now, but what can I do?