Posted by Ritch on June 10, 2003, at 11:47:36
In reply to Re: Thanks RITCH, more ...!, posted by Caleb462 on June 10, 2003, at 1:21:11
> > You are right - EffexorXR IS potent stuff. Within the last year only I started to get hypomania from the SSRI's, starting with Paxil after being on it for about 8 years with NO hypomanic behavior whatsoever.
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> Interestingly... of all the SSRIs/SRIs... effexor has the LEAST affinity for the serotonin reuptake site.
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> You sure are a weirdo Ritch. No offense intended.Yes I know! :) I just got back from a pdoc appointment, and we were talking about this. Evidently I must have a very high density of 5-HT receptors. I've taken larger doses of SSRI and Effexor, but they make me unstable. If I quit 'em I start to get panic disorder symptoms returning. There has also been some speculation that (higher doses of) serotonergics provoke some kind of epileptiform activity in my right temporal lobe.
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> > I've now gone down to a MICRO dose of Celexa because the higher dose (which was by no means high for the average person!) induced bad, bad hypomanic episodes. Tried Luvox but it was too sedating and I didn't give it enough of a chance to do anything!
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> > No luck with Zoloft (hit a plateau); haven't tried Prozac.
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> > So far, so good on the micro dose of Celexa along with a bunch of other stuff. I feel like a walking drugstore, as one poster on here put it and I "adopted" that phrase!
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