Is it normal to have side effects while changing the dosage of Lexapro and after reading what side effects I had...please, let me know your view on continuing with Lexapro at all after what happened. I started out with 5mg and was doing ok for a couple weeks besides the night sweats and a weird noise constantly in my ears. I had to take it at night because it made me soooo tired, I mean exhausted. My Dr decided to up my dosage to 10mg. Same side effects just not as bad then my Dr upped my dosage to 20mg a day and everything went haywire! That second week my night sweats were so bad I was waking up having to change from my neck being soaked, I barely slept, I barely ate and to top it off I started completely hallucinating and not just seeing things, but, hearing things as well that were just not there! I thought I was legitimately going insane for a minute. I saw my Dr and told them what happened and they were shocked as many people apparently do not have that happen while taking Lexapro. Well, my dr took me back down to 10mg since I was doing “ok” on 10mg and to see how it goes. I’m a little stand offish about staying on Lexapro now after what I went through because that was just mentally disturbing. However, I’m afraid if I try another SSRI I may get the same reaction. I would definitely rather deal with my anxiety and being a hermit instead of asking people if they just saw that imaginary cat that just walked by.