Posted by bleauberry on February 5, 2009, at 18:04:21
In reply to how to go from celexa to remeron, posted by blue46 on February 5, 2009, at 14:20:49
Well, obviously the dose of celexa was spelled wrong. But whatever it is, it really doesn't matter. The strategies are the same.
Switching can be hard sometimes because we don't know if we are feeling: 1)brain adjustments of less medicine, 2)brain adjustments of a new medicine, 3)brain adjustments of less of one and more of another at the same time.
The options are:
1. Wean off celexa first, wash out to a baseline for a couple weeks, and then start remeron.
2. Switch directly across.
3. Cross taper.
4. Add remeron to your normal celexa dose, stabilize on the combination, and then slowly remove celexa.
If it were me, I would probably try #4 first. The other choices can be too traumatic and destabilizing, at least for me.
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