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Originally Posted by MelodyL
Wow, I never ever hard about brain zaps. And withdrawal from Lexapro gives people brain zaps.
I have a friend who just switched from Lexapro to Effexor. The Lexapro (she said), made her so hungry she was eating everything in sight, so she asked her doctor to switch her.
Only she didn't take the Effexor either. She was crying all the time. She just went back on it the other day. She says she feels much better.
She never mentioned any zaps. I gather you have to be off this med for awhile to get brain zaps??
jeez, brain zaps. My lord, what else are people going to have to go through??
P.S. Jannaw, I started a thread about that foster mother who put the patch on that poor child.
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NoNoNo!!! LOL! The brain zaps are withdrawal from stopping an SSRI too fast. Like cold turkey and a 'fast' wean off. It's just a descriptive term for what the sensation feels like. Celexa did the same thing to me as Lex did to your friend with the added joy of turning me into a zombie. I was put on Effexor after a year of being off Celexa. For me Effexor was a miracle. It gave me back my life. It was like someone flipped a switch and said, "Here, have 'you' back". BTW, Celexa is the parent drug of Lex. They both have the very same active ingredient. They took the Celexa isomer and split it. They got rid of the part that had the worst of the side effects. That's a matter of opinion if you talk to people that have taken both drugs.
