I’ve been taking Lexapro for 2 years. I’m a middle-aged man.
The good news is I don’t panic anymore in anxious situations, which was the whole point of taking the drug. The drug worked pretty quickly in that regard. 2 years into it, I’m not really having any side effects any more. But I did.
In the beginning, it destroyed my libido. For most of the first two years, it complicated achieving orgasm. For more of the first two years, it actually changed the viscosity of my semen. I tried counteracting the sexual side effects with Wellbutrin, but the Wellbutrin had no effect on me.
For most of the first two years, it also made me yawn every day around 2pm or 3pm, for about an hour or two, as if I were tired, but I wasn’t.
Hope this helps! The drug has done what I needed it to do, and it came with well-documented side effects, none of which were a surprise to anyone who knew what happens to most people when you take an SSRI.