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Emotional Eating (Expert Forum)
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Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions in the Emotional Eating forum are answered by Dr. Roger Gould. Topics covered include anger and eating, anxiety and eating, binge eating, depression and eating, eating to "fit in", emotional eating, fill the void eating, guilt and eating, loneliness and eating, social eating, and stress and eating.
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by challita, Apr 23, 2008 09:19PM
Difference between Aropax and Lexapro
Dear Dr.
Yesterday was my first appointment ever with a psychiatrist, trying to work on my depression and anxiety situation. He described for me AXPRO to be taken ¼ of the tablet per day.
When I was buying it, the pharmacist mentioned to me that there is another medicine, from the same branch named “LEXAPRO” cheaper and might have fewer side effects than Axpro.
My concern is that what the pharmacist explained to me, to gain weight by taking Axpro. The pharmacist seemed like PREFERING LEXAPRO than AXPRO. And already I have a disturbance in my appetite that it increases and I don’t like that the medicine affect me by gaining weight.
I ask your advice what t
o do in this case.
I appreciate your answer.
Dear Dr.
Yesterday was my first appointment ever with a psychiatrist, trying to work on my depression and anxiety situation. He described for me AXPRO to be taken ¼ of the tablet per day.
When I was buying it, the pharmacist mentioned to me that there is another medicine, from the same branch named “LEXAPRO” cheaper and might have fewer side effects than Axpro.
My concern is that what the pharmacist explained to me, to gain weight by taking Axpro. The pharmacist seemed like PREFERING LEXAPRO than AXPRO. And already I have a disturbance in my appetite that it increases and I don’t like that the medicine affect me by gaining weight.
I ask your advice what t
o do in this case.
I appreciate your answer.
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Apr 24, 2008 06:36PM
, Apr 24, 2008 06:36PM
To: challita
You should stick with your doctor's recommendation...both pills are similar in the way they work...both may or may not effect your weight..you will have to do that by trial and error.
