Has anyone had success with upping dose to 20mg Lexapro for anxiety and depression?

How are you doing now nervycat?

I am in a very similar situation. Lexapro worked for me for 12 years at 20mg. Like I felt completely normal. I lowered about 3 years ago to 10mg and was ok until February when my panic disorder came back in full force. My general doctor tried adding some other medicines that just made me feel worse.

Now I’m just trying the increase to 20mg and it’s been 3 weeks now. I think I might be doing slightly better, but still not good. I finally get into the psychiatrist this Thursday after waiting for a couple months. Not sure if I should stick out the higher dose or if he’s going to want me to switch to another antidepressant.

I also have general anxiety. I had been taking Lexapro 10 mg for 8 years. A few weeks ago, after massive amounts of stress, I ended up in the emergency room with a severe panic attack that I could not control. I think that my body got too used to that dose. My doctor upped my Lexapro to 20 mg about 4 days ago. I'm feeling a lot of anxiety. I feel as if I have good days and bad days. Is this normal? To feel more anxious with the upping of the Lexapro? Has anyone had this problem?

People tolerate medicine differently. My Pyschiatrist told me that 110lb female might need the max dose of 20 mg of Lexapro to achieve full benefit. A 220lb male might be able to get theraputic benefit at 10mg. It all depends on how your body metabloizes these types of meds. I would strongly encourage you to talk with your doctor about increasing your dose. I've been on 20 mg of Lexapro for 9 years and have tolerated it quite well and it has worked for me at the 20mg dose. Unfortunatley I've had to add another med with the Lexapro because my body has gotten so imune to the med that is not working as well. After a long time on an SSRI, I understand this can happen. I believe they call it SSRI poop out (for a better terminology) Again, we are all different plus this med takes 6-8 weeks to get fully on board. Remember if he increases it to 20, you need to give it time to see if it works for you. Good luck. I hope you get to feeling better soon.

Hi, I am also having trouble with an increase from 20mg - 30mg 3 weeks now and still up and down will I ever level out??

i take 20 mg. daily for general & social anxiety. i dont have a problem with it. i started off with 10 mg. several years ago but it wasnt doing the whole job. dr. increased it to 20 mg. daily and it made a great difference with me. i have no side effects from it

Well, it should be stated this is a decision made by the prescribing Dr after what is hopefully an ongoing consult. I can say increasing is not always the best thing to do, and at best most of these meds make the anxiety feel worse, also, this higher the dose the harder it is to decrease or quit, a lot of time has to go into that and again it's the Dr who should be calling the shots. Beware just because someone online posts a magic bullet scenario, especially if they self-medicated w/o the Dr involved and again, these med especially differ so much just for us, let alone for someone else.

I'd get with the Dr and recite all you posted so he is aware of the concerns, we certainly wasn't you feeling better than this without consequences.