Anti depressant side effects kick in when?

[ijack]

I usually feel them pretty immediately.

[sandytoes]

With Lexapro, I started having trouble sleeping from about day 4-15. Then it got better.
Effexor, I felt and looked like I was on drugs pretty much the first day. It gave me a speedy feeling and it dilated my pupils to the point that other people noticed and commented on it. I only lasted a few weeks on that but the side effects lasted the entire time.

Good luck! I hope you get lucky and don't have any side effects.

[whitemerlot]

I felt light headed and dizzy and had diarrhea for the first two weeks when I started Effexor. It also gave me headaches at first. It gradually got better.

[Deleted]

DH was feeling Zoloft the first day. Really bad the second through fourth. My sister said Lexapro was second day through fifth or sixth.

Oh and the insomnia and more elusive orgasms are still going for DH. It's been a month.

[fortnightlily]

I wonder if it's the side effects of the new drug or the withdrawal from the old one or both, you know?

I've never switched. I can't recall how quickly side effects have shown up for me on Zoloft because they've been minor.

[nicbreeful]

Within 24 hours.

[auntie]

I felt like a speed freak crazy person on Wellbutrin within hours. Lexapro was great at first, but within about 8 months I started needing to sleep 15 hours a day and has some short term memory issues.

[njw]

Zoloft I felt bad almost instantly, with Lexapro I felt nothing...no side effects, no positive effects.

Wellbutrin made me feel a little crazy but not too bad after about a day.

[lexxasaurus]

Not all ADs, but.. Lexapro made me dizzy and nauseous pretty much every time I'd titrate up my dose, but evened out pretty quickly.

Wellbutrin made me edgy and slightly manic within a week or two.

Lithium gave me an immediate rare reaction.

Celexa took a couple months for me to lose my shit. So it's varied for me. Which is probably not what you wanted to hear, lol.

[lexxasaurus]

mp the drug I'm taking now was easy peasy to get on! I've tried a bunch and most of them were just fine.

In all honesty, I'm bipolar so some if it was needing to find a good mood stabilizer since the ADs weren't what I actually needed.