Posted by utopizen on November 10, 2002, at 21:17:42
In reply to Re: Lexapro and social phobia, posted by JonW on November 10, 2002, at 16:44:19
> My pdoc (a specialist for SP) had me on 20mg before I stopped due to sexual dysfunction. He may have increased it more, I don't know. I do know that he felt Lexapro was kind of a shot in the dark because the results of the study that showed it effective for social phobia weren't very impressive. I hope it works for you, though.
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> JonPretty much anything's a shot in the dark for SP except Klonopin.
My doctor never gives me more than enough for take as needed klonopin, and even that's little.
I once told him, "Um, what's really so bad about just taking Klonopin for the rest of my life?" And he goes "um, I don't know, I suppose that's not so bad." Yet he still refuses to let me have Klonopin. I've tried Celexa, Paxil, Neurontin, now on Effexor XR 225/day, waiting to see if it does anything.
Oh and I've tried Buspar.Frankly, I'm not so sure what an SP specialist would know that a regular p-doc wouldn't. Apparently, there's no magical script that he knows to give that has a secret codename in his PDR... unless he's giving you special cognitive behaviorial therapy, I'm not so sure how "special" he is as a specialist...
good luck trying out meds. You're on the right track. But SSRIs tend to be rather similar. After the second or third, you'll probably be put on Wellbutrin or Effexor, maybe later on a combo including one of these...
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