Posted by Noa on February 9, 2001, at 13:19:07
In reply to Re: Adderall Dosage » Noa, posted by Sulpicia on February 8, 2001, at 17:09:01
Thanks, Sulpicia.
I want to lower the effexor because I thinkit is overactivating for me. This has always been an issue. Last year, I lowered the effexor from 375 to 300, and then raised my serzone from 225 to 300.
Then, a couple of months ago, I started to feel jittery again, so my pdoc suggested raising the serzone to 350. That helped, especially with the sleep (it was getting hard to fall asleep again with all that jittery-fidgetiness).
Now, I feel some of the jitteriness coming back--always needing to jiggle my leg, etc. It isn't affecting my sleep as much as before, and I attribute that to the fact that I am getting a lot of exercise these days. But I am bothered by the inability to sit still without shaking my legs, etc. I wonder if this effect from the effexor is happening now because of the exercise--could it change how it affects me? Maybe the exercise increases serotonin, and there is too much serotonin acting on my 5HT2 receptors? I don't know.
I wanted to see if lowering it by 37.5 would help.
Also, at the moment, I am starting to feel like the adderall isn't as effective in the afternoon as I need it to be--I get really brain dead around 4 pm. Of course, that has to be partially a function of being up at 5:30 am, I guess.
If I do end up lowering the effexor, I feel like I might need something in its place--either an increase in serzone, or an increase in adderall (for this reason and for the reason mentioned above--afternoon crash).
Any ideas welcome.
I don't know, this isn't as well thought out as it could be. I just have never liked it when the effexor is feeling overactivating. It comes and goes.
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