coming off escitalopram

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i started taking these (lexapro) for depression/anxiety around 7/8 months ago. they strted wrking for me really quickly which i was pleased with. however is stopped taking them daily a couple of months ago for two reasons; 1. because i was feeling much better 2. i cant afford them (i dont live in the uk and i had to pay ?40 per month for my prescription)
now im beginning to wonder if i shouldn't have come off them. im getting married at the end of the year and am starting to feel anxious about that and the organising of it and am starting to feel things generally are getting on top of me again. i nearly cried at the post office this afternoon, cos the lady was unpleasant. the doctor said not to stop tkaing them if i had anything stressful coming up.
i dont know what to do.

Hi
it's generally a really bad idea to just stop taking these medications, and stopping cold turkey will affect you really badly, often as you describe a couple of months down the road, it happened to me several times. The withdrawals can feel very much like the original illness and so it can be very confusing. Tapering slowly eliminates the withdrawals. I am currently 4 years into tapering off liquid Prozac. It's always always best to taper extremely slowly and cautiously off antidepressants and if you can get it in liquid form so much the better. As you have a stressful event coming up the best thing would be to restart the medications and feel well again. Then maybe rethink things next year? I can really recommend a book called "Coming off Antidepressants" by Joseph Glenmullen.