"i love lexapro. i started taking it when i was 14 from severe anxiety and ocd. my doctor basically begged my parents to put me on medication because i could not leave the house. i&#039;m now 20 years old and about 6 months ago i thought i no longer needed the lexapro because i was feeling better. what a mistake. after the taper my ocd came back just as bad as it was when i was 14. so my pdoc put me on prozac. it made me manic. i then tried brintellix, again it made me crazy. so i went back to the lexapro and yes the start up side effects suck, headache, dizzy (that woosh feeling in you brain), upset stomach and brain fog, and every time i bumped  up the dose i had an increase in anxiety, but after 5 weeks i finally have my life back. stick it out!!!!"