Posted by Waterlily on March 2, 2002, at 21:47:14
In reply to Re: Serzone = INCREASED anxiety??? » Waterlily, posted by JohnX2 on March 2, 2002, at 19:21:14
Thanks for your replies. I think I'm going to stick with the 100 mg and then take it up every three days in 50 mg increments instead of 100 mg increments until I get to 300 mg. I was reading some stuff on this site about Serzone that was very interesting. It was about the interaction of SSRIs with Serzone causing anxiety, but that this resolves quickly. I took one month of Prozac, but stopped about 13 days ago. The stuff I was reading recommended a 5 half-life wash-out of the SSRI before starting Serzone to avoid this. Best I can tell, Prozac has a 4 day half life and its metabolite a 7 day half life. Which means I would need at least 20 days off Prozac to avoid the anxiety. I'm going to stick with .5 mg of Ativan to offset the anxiety for now and hope for the best.
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