Posted by sowhysosad on May 20, 2009, at 18:42:59
In reply to Re: Avoid serotonergics after bad SRI reaction?, posted by bleauberry on May 20, 2009, at 18:28:40
> Anyway, in those sensitive patients, he had one lady who did very well on...you won't believe it...1 drop of lexapro. That's 1mg. Another on drops of zoloft. I talked to a girl with 3 mg lexapro as her perfect dose...more was depressing, less was not enough. And there was someone here a couple months ago that took a sand-grain size of lexapro.
Yeah, I recall reading about a woman who did really well by opening Prozac capsules and taking a couple of granules!
> The point I'm trying to make is that when someone has a bad reaction to therapeutic doses of meds, they need to listen their bodies and disregard doses that other people take. You gotta take the dose that your body wants, not someone else's.
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> Keep in mind that in clincal studies, people like us were not included. Complicating illnesses, infections, sensitivities, previous episodes, etc, are almost always excluded from the trials. So the doses that are preached to us are not representative doses of the population that we are. We at pbabble probably need significantly different doses than the general public, either much higher or much lower.Great points, but the odd thing is that my depression was always pretty straightforward before the akathisia and responded well to SSRI's.
I was also able to tolerate "normal" doses of SSRI's pre-akathisia: 20mg of Prozac, Lexapro and (IIRC) Paxil.
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