Hi, Vickie. I, too, recently started taking Lexapro. My husband was treated for tongue-base scc (stage 4) four years ago, and he had a lot of problems with the neck dissection healing (or lack thereof), resulting in a ruptured carotid artery which caused him to have a stroke. Then, about a month ago he fell and broke his shoulder. Also, my father died a year ago and my mother, who suffers from vascular dementia, moved in with us. So, I was getting pretty burned out from caregiving.

Anyway, about Lexapro. When I started taking it I was just totally exhaused for about the first week and a half, and sort of fuzzy-headed. After about ten days or so, that improved dramatically. I'm much less tired than I was before. I'm still unhappy, of course - my situation hasn't changed. But there isn't the bottomless despair that I felt before. I haven't noticed any side effects. The only change in my personality has been for the better. The misery was making me pretty short-tempered and snarly.

Of course, like any medication it doesn't affect everyone the same way, but I would encourage you to stick with it awhile longer and see what happens.

Good luck, and hang in there

Barb