Posted by anais on November 15, 2002, at 11:27:55
In reply to Anyone had success on Effexor XR? , posted by jp on October 24, 1999, at 14:59:14
can different drugs' potencies be compared in milligrams? example- i used to take 30mg paxil/day, which was really not enough, but 40mg made me sleep @ 15hours/day! my lousy doctor told me to take 150 mg/day of effexor, but during the "rev up" period, i was feeling much better, read more about the drug, and decided to stay at 37 mg/day. i feel fine, except for awful insomnia. does anyone have that? so my question is- how do 30mg of paxil and 150mg of effexor compare? does it have the same potency? would that make paxil 5x stronger than effexor? does it have anything to do with toxicity (60mg/day paxil; 300mg/day effexor)? according to these posts, effexor seems incredibly strong. so why would the doc increase dosage by 120mg with a stronger drug than the first? is he really inept, or can milligrams just not be arbitrarily compared?
thanks!
ps- can anyone sleep all night on this stuff?
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