SSRI for Post-concussion?
 

Hello everybody, I hope you all are doing well. I joined this forum after learning I had PCS early this year, from a car accident I had in August '09. I posted for a little while and then got so busy with work and school that I haven't been back for a few months.

Since I've been gone I began physical therapy for my neck (whiplash injury) which has almost completely cured me of my dizziness and headaches. Unfortunately it didn't help my psychological symptoms, not that I really expected it to. Basically the usual things like mood swings, anger outbursts, iritability, slight depression, etc.

My Neuro (who I believe knows less about PCS than almost any of the people on this forum) had me start taking Lexapro, a selective seratonin-reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), because she said that the psychological symptoms could be being caused by an imbalance of seratonin from my brain being injured.

I have been taking it for around 2 months now and I really don't feel like it's done anything but make me very lethargic and apathetic (I have skipped many of my classes, which is not normal for me, just because I didn't care).

The things is, I have been feeling better, as I said, but I started the Lexapro and the physical therapy at the same time (which I thought was a bad idea in the first place) so I'm not sure if the therapy is responsible for it or if the Lexapro could be, or both. I want to stop taking it because I don't want to be on drugs if I don't have to, but I really don't want my symptoms to relapse.

I was wondering if anybody else here has had experience taking an SSRI for their PCS, and whether or not it helped.

...and general advice is also welcome, of course =)