Problem with lexapro - i got a question

[soul_planet]

I'm currently taking 15mg. My doctor increased the dose when 10mg didnt work with me..

First of all, my doctor said that I'm having depression but its due to biological inside something..not triggered by stressful event. I started having problem with my memory and concentration.

So at first 15mg worked quite well. but then i feel that it does not cure my prob completely. Sometimes I still space out and having difficulty in memorizing and understanding (before it was much more worse - couldnt even concentrate when driving)

So i just want to ask whether my problem is the side effect of lexapro (cause i hear some having brain fog when taking it) or maybe the medicine is not suitable with me?

[soul_planet]

Thanks..my current doctor is a psychiatric..well it all started with the concentration problem..and after that my body felt weak and i had this suicidal tendency without no reason..i'm not stressed out but it just happened out of sudden..i even checked with neurologist..

No my memory/concentration is not bad as before..just i tend to space out sometimes..before i even had difficult in driving and couldnt understand what people were saying
I just hope that i will feel normal again..maybe see my doctor again..he gave me lexapro for me to take for 6 months though

[Paxiled]

By the way, did you get your blood sugar, thyroid, etc. checked by this doctor before he or she decided it's depression?

[Paxiled]

First, antidepressants don't cure depression, they just make it feel less bad.  Second, we don't know the cause of depression, so your doctor can't know if it's biological or from some series of events -- nobody knows.  Only long periods of psychotherapy usually tells us if it's something that happened in our lives or didn't happen as opposed to just being born that way.  Third, if you don't feel sad and defeated and depressed, how do you know it's depression?  You don't describe feeling depressed, you describe having memory and concentration problems, which can be due to lots of things.  And yes, drugs can have this side effect in people who didn't have it before.  And yes, assuming you actually are depressed, it might not be the med for you -- only time will tell that, but if you're not suffering depression but something else it isn't going to do anything for you except give you side effects.  I'd see a specialist, not a regular doc, and see if you are in fact depressed unless there's a lot you're suffering mentally you haven't stated here.