Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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mraoun 07/31/2009

i have been on lexapro for 6 years and just a week ago i increased it till 30 mg even beyond the limit that our family doctor gives and my anxiety is severe trying to take xanax to calm myself a little but the ? is even the med is in my system why still needs to take 2 to 3 weeks for the effect please any input will help me thanks.

deleted_user 07/31/2009

because the medicine has to build up in your system first

mraoun 08/01/2009

anyone else please

deleted_user 08/01/2009

Brittany's right though. :( Sorry. That's the pain about meds, most take time to build up and work.

deleted_user 08/01/2009

same as everyone else, it takes time and you have not had enough yet. do what Michaels says and keep taking the Xanax till the lexapro takes over, this will make your trip better, specially for Michael...:-))

deleted_user 08/01/2009

think of it like building a dam. the waters stay at bay once it's built high enough. then the waters (anxiety) rise a bit more. so you need to build the dam (dosage of medecine) a bit higher.
hopefully this sequence doesn't happen too often, but the dam takes a week or two to build. and when you need to build it higher, you need to go throguh the same proccess again.
it stinks.

mraoun 08/02/2009

thank u so much for your replys it really helps i guess for now i need to depend on xanax .

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