I got off of it months ago after my depression was I “remission” for 9-12 months. No sides on lexapro and finasteride.
About 4 week after starting lexapro (the time period they say it takes for it to kick in) I slowly started becoming myself again. I started leaving the house a bit, after about a month of straight up agoraphobia. I remember before I started the lexapro I legit thought about my hair at least every minute. It was impossible to think about ANYTHING else. My father actually became depressed in 2009, and ultimately killed himself. I remember feeling exactly how he acted before he died. Repeating the same negative sh*t all day to my loved ones, pacing around the house, I was an absolute f*****g mess man. If I still felt that way today I probably would’ve killed myself by now.
But somehow the lexapro slowly brought me back to feeling normal. I’m still not sure how much of it was lexapro and how much was circumstantial, but the only evidence I have that it was the lexapro is it was legit 4 weeks after starting it that I started to normalize again.
This process took months. After I started feeling a bit better I took on some extremely reckless behavior, which I think was a result of me not caring much about life anymore but finally feeling “up” enough to do something.
But now, over a year after I started lexapro, I’m in the best place I’ve been. Back in school, having a “friends with benefits” girl that I thought was beyond my league, and generally having a hopeful outlook on life.
Sorry if this was all over the place, I wrote it quick and it was just a stream of consciousness as I was typing. I recommend trying an antidepressant to ANYONE that was in my position.