Lexapro and Coq10 drug interactions - from FDA reports
Drug interactions are reported among people who take Lexapro and Coq10 together. This study is created by eHealthMe based on reports of 186 people who take Lexapro and Coq10 from FDA, and is updated regularly.
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186 people who take Lexapro, Coq10 are studied.
Number of reports submitted per year:

Most common drug interactions over time *:
< 1 month:
- Gastroenteritis bacterial (inflammation of stomach and intestine by bacterial infection)
1 - 6 months:
- Feeling hot
- Palpitations (feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing)
6 - 12 months:
n/a
1 - 2 years:
n/a
2 - 5 years:
- Angioedema (rapid swelling of the dermis)
- Dizziness
5 - 10 years:
n/a
10+ years:
n/a
not specified:
- Cough
- Brain mass
- Brain oedema (excess accumulation of fluid in the intracellular or extracellular spaces of the brain)
- Breast cancer metastatic
- Cellulitis (infection under the skin)
- Death
- Arthralgia (joint pain)
- Bone disorder
- Emotional distress
- Gait disturbance
Most common drug interactions by gender *:
female:
- Arthralgia (joint pain)
- Hypoaesthesia oral (reduced sense of touch or sensation in mouth)
- Spinal osteoarthritis (joint cartilage loss in spine)
- Bronchitis (inflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes)
- Erythema (redness of the skin)
- Rash
- Swelling
- Chest discomfort
- Osteomyelitis (infection of bone)
- Gait disturbance
male:
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness)
- Pain
- Peripheral swelling
- Atrial fibrillation (fibrillation of the muscles of the atria of the heart)
- Cerebrovascular accident (sudden death of some brain cells due to lack of oxygen when the blood flow to the brain is impaired by blockage or rupture)
- Cough
- Gait disturbance
- Headache (pain in head)
- Injury
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit)
Most common drug interactions by age *:
0-1:
n/a
2-9:
n/a
10-19:
n/a
20-29:
n/a
30-39:
- Colitis (inflammation of colon)
- Congestive cardiomyopathy (weakening of heart muscle)
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water)
- Emphysema (chronic respiratory disease - over inflation of the air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs)
- Hepatic steatosis (fatty liver disease)
- Intracardiac thrombus (presence of a circumscribed mass with heart wall)
- Pericardial effusion (fluid around the heart)
- Renal failure (kidney dysfunction)
- Respiratory arrest (cessation of normal respiration due to failure of the lungs to function effectively)
- Ventricular fibrillation (abnormally irregular heart rhythm)
40-49:
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation)
- Hypoaesthesia oral (reduced sense of touch or sensation in mouth)
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect)
- Constipation
- Anaemia (lack of blood)
- Anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable)
- Bone disorder
- Cervicobrachial syndrome (pain in neck and arm with changing location)
- Chest discomfort
- Chronic sinusitis (long lasting inflammation of the paranasal sinuses)
50-59:
- Bone density decreased
- Bone disorder
- Bone marrow necrosis (death of body tissue of bone marrow)
- Candidiasis (candidiasis or thrush is a fungal infection)
- Cellulitis (infection under the skin)
- Cervical spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal in the neck)
- Cervical spine flattening
- Cough
- Deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in a major vein that usually develops in the legs and/or pelvis)
- Device failure
60+:
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness)
- Pain
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect)
- Anaemia (lack of blood)
- Injection site pain
- Neuropathy peripheral (surface nerve damage)
- Pneumonia
- Constipation
- Peripheral swelling
- Angioedema (rapid swelling of the dermis)
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
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- O’Brien FE, O’Connor RM, Clarke G, Donovan MD, Dinan TG, Griffin BT, Cryan JF, "The P-glycoprotein inhibitor cyclosporin A differentially influences behavioural and neurochemical responses to the antidepressant escitalopram", Behavioural brain research, 2014 Mar .
- Peel MM, Cooke M, Lewis-Peel HJ, Lea RA, Moyle W, "A randomized controlled trial of coenzyme Q 10 for fatigue in the late-onset sequelae of poliomyelitis", Complementary therapies in medicine, 2015 Dec .
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