Posted by King Vultan on November 16, 2004, at 12:05:44
In reply to SCARED Pdoc wants to raise meds again, posted by tampagirl70 on November 16, 2004, at 9:27:51
> At the beginning of this month I was depressed and obsessing and my pdoc raised my dose of Celexa from 40 to 60mg. Last week things were much better and I thought I was on the road to normalcy. This past Saturday I crashed and am again depressed and obsessing. Now my doc is thinking of raising me to 80mg Celexa. I was fine for over 3 years on anywhere from 20-40mg; why now all of a sudden am I having these problems and need to take a higher dose? This worries me. Is the Celexa pooping out on me? What do I do if it stops working? Help!!
I think it might be better in a case like this to switch to a drug with more of a dual action, such as Effexor or Cymbalta, rather than just raising the dosage of your SSRI. Drugs that work on both serotonin and norepinephrine seem to work better in the long term than plain SSRIs do.Todd
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