"these glowing reviews are comical to me.  i have had anxiety most of my life, not all the time, but it has come and gone since i was a little girl.  at the urging of family members who have been on one happy pill or another trying to be happy (with no success i might add), i went to my md and he gave me lexapro. i took it for about 6 days, and on the 7th day. i was taken off by ambulance with a 3 day panic attack that i could do nothing about.  it scared by husband so bad, he was beside himself.  my blood pressure was extremely high, heart palpitations, a feeling of hypothermia, ice cold all over, could not urinate, etc.  once in the hospital, the doctor had to give me a downer to counteract the lexapro (an upper). "