Posted by Denise528 on June 22, 2002, at 8:02:44
In reply to Re: Effexor, can I alternate?, posted by winter on June 21, 2002, at 18:25:02
Hello Winter,
Thanks for giving me your opinion and I agree, what I am doing istn't a sensible approach but my gut feeling now (and this is based on past experience when the drugs have worked) is that they are not going to work on 37, on 74 or on 150 but they may work on 200. I am not prepared to waste time feeling droned out and lifeless, gradually trirating (don't know how to spell that one) going up to what may or may not be a therapeutic dose.
So why not try and hit 150 straight away and then after 4 days go up to 200, I am only toying with the idea of doing this as I know there could be risks.
So far I totally empathise with your experiences on this drug, for instance, I missed a day yesterday and today am feeling really tired, starting to feel sick but I prefer the crappy physical feelings to the unemotional, dazed feeling that I get when I consistently take 2 x 37.5 a day.
I often wish that I was a psychiatrist and that I could prescribe my own drugs, that way I could use Dr Jensons system of trying a drug for three days, having a three day break, trying something else and so on, then when I had finished I could take the best of the bunch and give the selected ones a proper chance. That way this time round I could have avoided spending six weeks feeling crap on Seroxat, then six weeks of the same with prozac and prothiaden, Lithium etc.
Oh how I yearn for the days when I could take practically any AD and they all worked just as effectively and just as quickly.
Can I ask you what you are taking now and whether you are feeling any better now?
Denise
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