Coming of Lexapro

I was on 10mg of Lexapro for a while (just enough to stop the paranoia and the depression from taking hold).

I went down to 5mg for a few months, and I only needed that 5 mg.

Now coming off it completely for medical stuff and it is rough!

It's only 5mg, why does it hurt so much?

Day 4 was the worst, I was on an emotional roller-coaster.
In that one day I was so sad, furious, and laughing.
The brain zaps are the most annoying.

I have been drinking so much hemp tea and taking cannabidiols three times a day, and this has been an incredible help.
It sucks that you can't get CBD in Australia.

By day 7 I found I felt drowsy all day, this was my indicator that I didn't need the hemp/CBD anymore.
I know it's not true, but for me when pain medicines start giving me funky side effects I like to think that I'm ok without them because they don't have enough pain to work on anymore.

By day 11 it was becoming clear just how much anger/frustration/sadness was being treated by the medicine.
I'll like Melbourne, four seasons in a day.

I will suggest that you avoid caffeine, it seems to make the withdrawal symptoms more prominent.

It took 2 weeks for the withdrawal effects to be gone completely for me.

When I can, I'm coming back for you, meds!