Lexapro HCL
Lexapro HCL comes under the group of drugs known as the SSRIs or the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. It produces action by affecting the brain chemicals that case anxiety or depression when their level is disturbed.
Lexapro HCL is an approved drug for adults and adolescents (at least 12 years old) for treating general disorders of anxiety and major depression disorders. Lexapro HCL is also used for purposes other than given in the medication guide. The drug has favoring evidence against its competitor drugs.
If you are less than 24 years of age and you have started taking anti-depressants then you may have the suicidal thoughts. When treating with Lexapro your physician will regularly visit you for the initial twelve weeks.
You must immediately call your doctor if you found any of these symptoms developing in you: mood swings or behavior changes, feeling impulsive, aggressive, having suicide or hurting thoughts, depressed, anxiety, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, irritable, hostile, agitated, restless, and hyperactive (physically or mentally). In pregnant women taking SSRIs medicines causes serious problems in newborns e.g. lung problems. If the pregnant patient stops taking antidepressants it may develop a relapse of depression. Don’t stop taking Lexapro without physician’s advice even if you get pregnant or you are planning pregnancy.
Buying Lexapro from the web or from foreign vendors is very dangerous. Such medicines may prove dangerous as they contain fake ingredients distributed via unregistered pharmacies. Lexapro bought from the internet contain a HALDOL, an antipsychotic drug with severe side effects.
Taking Lexapro along with MAOIs sometimes causes serious fatal reactions. Consult your doctor before taking this drug. Especially if you are allergic to this drug or you have problems like kidney or liver disease, epilepsy, seizures, manic depression, bipolar depression, suicidal thoughts or drug abuse history. If you are amongst the following cases you must adjust of your dose or undergo special tests to take this medicine safely.
Moreover Lexapro HCL has many side effects also. For instance an analysis conducted by or the highest dose of this drug causes side effects like insomnia, dry mouth, constricted pupils, somnolence, constipation, indigestion and fatigue. Lexapro affects sexual functions and causes side effects like delayed ejaculation, libido, anorgasmia and genital anesthesia. These side effects are normally reversed when the medicine is discontinued.
The drug is not associated with the weight gain; rather in patients with binge eating obesity it helps to reduce the weight.
An analysis by the FDA showed an increase in suicidal thoughts amongst the patients treated with this drug. These suicidal thoughts disappear when the medicine us is discontinued.
Discontinuation of this drug leads to certain withdrawal symptoms like sensations of electric shocks (also called the brain shivers or the brain zaps), heightened akathisia, issues of bladder control, acute depression and dizziness and irritability.
Excessive dose of the medicine leads towards effects like tachycardia and agitation. In some cases clonus, hypertonia and dyskinesia occurred.
This drug works by increasing the levels of intra synaptic neurotransmitter serotonin. It blocks its reuptake into presynaptic neuron. Amongst all the available drugs of this category Lexapro HCL has the highest human serotonin transporter affinity.
Lexapro HCL was developed as a result of cooperation between Forest Lab’s and Lundbeck. The development initiated in the early 1997. The results of the drug application were given to U.S FDA in 2001.the FDA approved the medicine for use as an antidepressant in 2002 and was approved for anxiety in 2003. This drug is part of an ever greening strategy for extending a drug’s lifetime.
Several controversies also developed with the use of this medicine. Many newspapers considered the extensive marketing of the drug as controversial. The doctors prescribed this drug despite of its generic alternative which was not only cheaper but equally effective. A controversy also rose up when the company stated an illegal medicine campaign for teenagers and children.
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