Reply #98: Well, your experience is different from mine.

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When I quit Lexapro after being on it for 9 months, I went cold turkey. I didn't hear that you had to taper off. I had bad headaches, probably similar to what you had, hard to tell, except mine lasted for a month. I had electrical brain zaps that sometimes occurred 1-5 times/minute. I would be talking to someone and then zombie out. I thought I was dying. I had many violent thoughts and impulses, and more. My doctor was very concerned after I went to see him after 3 weeks of this. He was about to order an MRI based on my symptoms, then he figured out I quit my AD w/o tapering. These are all classic symptoms of severe AD withdrawal symptoms and they lasted a full month. It was sheer hell. You're lucky it only took a day and was restricted to a headache.