Posted by Ame Sans Vie on August 3, 2003, at 17:04:24
In reply to Lexapro dosing ... more re meds... » Ame Sans Vie, posted by Janelle on August 3, 2003, at 16:16:43
> Ah, so you're like me, not from France, but you must have studied French! I like that name "Lifeless Soul" - yeah, it's a downer for a pseudonymn, but unfortunately, many people, me being one of the, can relate to it!
Yeah, unfortunately, I assume many of us here can relate...
Just out of curiosity, how good is your French? I always like finding francophone penpals to correspond and learn with. :-)> I am SO glad that you are completely "cured" on your current meds - if you don't mind, what are you taking? Med/dose. Thanks!
Thank you! I haven't felt this wonderful since I was a youngster (well, okay, I'm 20 years old, so I suppose I'm still a youngster in the eyes of most people, lol). My current meds are 100mg Ultram four times daily (for severe depression and moderate OCD) and 6mg Xanax XR each morning (for social phobia, agoraphobia, panic disorder, and avoidant personality disorder). I also have ADD, and I just discontinued the Desoxyn that I was taking for that... I think I'll ask my doctor to go back on it.
In addition, I take a ton of supplements everyday... see this post for my current regime:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030728/msgs/247399.html
> As for Lex, I think you are right - the max RECOMMENDED dose probably is 40mg but obviously, based on your psychiatrist's experience with that other patient with severe OCD going to 80mg, that dose (which is double the 40!) must be somewhat *safe* but then again, there seems to be a nausea problem if a person takes more than 40mg of Lex a day.
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> Actually, I'm surprised your pdoc didn't switch the person with major OCD over to Luvox, which is an SSRI known for its effect on OCD! It does not do much for depression, and if that other patient was depressed on top of OCD, this could be why the pdoc just kept increasing the Lex.Actually, she'd mentioned that she *had* tried him on the convential OCD medications (i.e. Anafranil and Luvox) to no avail.
> In my mother's case, my guess is that at her next pdoc visit, he will either max the Lex out to 40mg for a few weeks, or he will taper her off Lex and onto something else.
Well, I wish her, and you, the best of luck!
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