Posted by theo on November 16, 2003, at 11:43:38
In reply to Concerned New User, posted by streek on November 15, 2003, at 16:33:46
When I first tried Lex I started at 10mg and after 8 weeks stopped because side effects never went away. Several months later another doc suggested Lex and I told him of my passed experience. He said start slow, 2.5mg for 1 week, then 5mg for 3-4 weeks. He said if I feel good on 5mg not to even go to 10mg, but if I felt like I needed more to go to 10mg. I stayed with 5mg and never even went to 10mg. Whats interesting is when I first tried Lex starting at 10mg, I had horrible nausea which slowly went away and I gained weight. When I tried Lex the second time with 2.5mg and slowly moved up, I had no nausea and lost weight! Whats even more interesting is I did some research on Lex and found a bar graph showing better results at 5mg and 20mg and worse at 10mg after 12 weeks! Forest did a good job at marketing Lex as a "one size fits all" but caused a lot of people much grief and wasted time on side effects by distributing sample packs that don't even suggest starting slow and titrating up, but hey I'm sure the stockholders are happy. By the way, I discontinued Lex the second time only do to sexual side effects. Tried adding 150mg of Wellbutrin XL but after 6 weeks on both quit the Lex and stayed with the Wellbutrin XL, which has been great for me for anxiety brought on by depression and sex is better than ever!
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