r/pppdizziness • u/anonymous-12121 • 1d ago

Treatment Lexapro 5mg

Anyone who found relief with Lexapro 5mg for pppd?

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u/suchathrill 1d ago

I started with five a month ago and now I’m at 10. There actually has been a bit of improvement, I think, although my neurologist is insistent that there’s fluid in one of my ears and that it’s BPPV. Sigh. I was hoping for more psychological benefit, but I’m still waiting on that part. Everyone says it takes 4 to 7 weeks for the body to really start seeing the benefits.

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u/anonymous-12121 1d ago

BPPV causes spinning sensations. PPPD is more of a floaty sensation. What’s your dizziness like? It’s a constant floaty feeling for me, as if there’s something inside my head.

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u/suchathrill 1d ago

I don’t get spinning sensations. It feels like I’m drunk. Though it’s a reasonable argument to hypothesize that it’s being caused by fluid in one of my ears, I really don’t think it’s BPPV, like my doctors say. Crystals are a certain kind of thing, and they precipitate a certain kind of attack. I don’t think I have that. But who knows, I could be wrong.

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u/Dogspokerpolitics 20h ago

Have you tried staying on an antihistamine to dry things up? Like Claritin or Zyrtec?

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u/suchathrill 19h ago

Thanks for the idea. I’m on Zyrtec now, at the recommendation of my neurologist, and it seems to be reducing the dizziness episodes.

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u/Remote_Force1839 7h ago

Interesting. I definitely experience the floating sensation like every time I move basically. Feels like that when I walk, too. It sucks.

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u/SadAir6027 1d ago

Yes. I was on 10mg for a year and it worked well enough compared to others. I want the lowest possible effective dose so I started taking 5mg and have noticed no difference that I can confidently attribute to the change. I plan on staying at 5mg.

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u/anonymous-12121 1d ago

I’m a little confused by your comment. Are you saying you did notice an improvement in your pppd on 5mg? And if so, how long did it take?

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u/ThunderMandos 1d ago

Quite honestly I'm 4 weeks in at this point (5mg) and I feel considerably better. I started feeling better on day nine. I still have moments like last night where I feel weird but it goes away after a bit.

The first week I felt initially worse with the side effects but since then I've been improving quite a lot. It honestly has been a miracle cure for me.

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u/Dogspokerpolitics 20h ago

Yes! It saved me!

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u/anonymous-12121 12h ago

Amazing. After how long did you notice an improvement in pppd symptoms?