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how to wean off lexapro 10 mg

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Apr 11 6:30pm | Replies (35)

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@linda1000

I’ve been doing mindfulness meditation everyday 20 minutes for the past 18 months preparing to get off the 10 mg. lexapro. I don’t know how to figure the dosage in ml.
Can you detail your taper please? My doctor gave me the liquid but no advise how to use it to taper. Thanks so much for sharing.

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The dosage in ml should be the same as in mg. That is 5 ml is equal to 5mg. I decreased my dosage by 10% every three - four weeks. If I traveled, I would go longer not shorter between dosage changes. At the end I didn’t quite stick to the exact schedule. The first time I weaned off, I followed the schedule I will post below. A few years later, I suffered a traumatic loss that caused extreme anxiety, so I started taking Lexapro 10 mg again. When I tried to wean off this time, it caused me to have much more frequent “silent” or what I called “ocular” migraines. I get vision disturbances for about a half hour; sometimes I have a headache, nausea or fatigue but not always. I stopped the taper at 5 mg. Another thing I could have done, as recommended by the website surviving antidepressants is really slow down the taper - maybe 5% every three to four weeks. I am on hold now to see if the migraines might stabilize- they haven’t and it has been almost a year since I stopped at 5 mg. Also if I get a “bad” batch of the generic Lexapro, my migraines will increase to daily or twice daily.

I will make a separate post with my original taper - don’t want to type it all in and have the post rejected for being too long.