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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 149121" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>No, 5 mg isn't a small dose of Lexapro. The recommended dose of Lexapro is 10 mg. That's for adults, of course, because it isn't safe or effective enough on kids for it to be approved for use by kids so there is no child dose. </p><p></p><p>Ten mg of Lexapro is the equivalent of 40 mg of Celexa. Twenty mg of Celexa (the equivalent of 5 mg of Lexapro) was enough to not only make my son manic, it made him psychotic. Don't be fooled just because Lexapro is concentrated. </p><p></p><p>Mania is a psychiatric side effect of the drug. Even if a drug is working for the reason it has been prescribed that doesn't exclude the possibility of the person taking it suffering from a side effect. On the other hand, it may be all side effect that you are seeing. Certainly triggering hypomania or mania would make it <em>look</em> like a drug has reduced depression and anxiety.</p><p></p><p>If indeed he is having a manic reaction to the Lexapro -- which will continue to get worse the longer he takes it -- there is no drug he can take which will fix it. My son was taking 400 mg of Lamictal and it didn't do squat to stop the bad reaction to the Celexa. He continued to get worse until the day he threw the Celexa away. </p><p></p><p>Lamictal is called an activating mood stabilizer because, though it helps decrease mood swings or bipolar episodes over the long run (which is what a mood stabilizer does), it can and does cause some mild mood elevation (which is why it is usually given to people on the depressive side).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 149121, member: 1498"] No, 5 mg isn't a small dose of Lexapro. The recommended dose of Lexapro is 10 mg. That's for adults, of course, because it isn't safe or effective enough on kids for it to be approved for use by kids so there is no child dose. Ten mg of Lexapro is the equivalent of 40 mg of Celexa. Twenty mg of Celexa (the equivalent of 5 mg of Lexapro) was enough to not only make my son manic, it made him psychotic. Don't be fooled just because Lexapro is concentrated. Mania is a psychiatric side effect of the drug. Even if a drug is working for the reason it has been prescribed that doesn't exclude the possibility of the person taking it suffering from a side effect. On the other hand, it may be all side effect that you are seeing. Certainly triggering hypomania or mania would make it [I]look[/I] like a drug has reduced depression and anxiety. If indeed he is having a manic reaction to the Lexapro -- which will continue to get worse the longer he takes it -- there is no drug he can take which will fix it. My son was taking 400 mg of Lamictal and it didn't do squat to stop the bad reaction to the Celexa. He continued to get worse until the day he threw the Celexa away. Lamictal is called an activating mood stabilizer because, though it helps decrease mood swings or bipolar episodes over the long run (which is what a mood stabilizer does), it can and does cause some mild mood elevation (which is why it is usually given to people on the depressive side). [/QUOTE]
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