"this medication has been very effective for me. after years and years of living with anxiety and doing all the right things to get rid of it organically, i finally bit the bullet and started on 5mg. decided after a particularly bad month of anxiety to start a script i had been given a year ago. read reviews, most of them saying you need to stick it out to pass the side effects and get the full benefit, so that&#039;s what i did. i took the 5mg for a week, went up to 10, and have now been on it for 3 whole months. the initial side effects were as follows: nausea, sleepiness, memory deficits (short-term), headaches. those went away after 2 months. and anxiety is gone. i am calm and collected, i no longer sweat the small stuff. no insomnia."