Posted by Ritch on March 5, 2005, at 22:15:27
In reply to Re: Why apathy / bad behaviour on Effexor? » Ritch, posted by ed_uk on March 5, 2005, at 16:33:40
> Hi Ritch!
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> Perhaps you'd feel better if you took a reduced dose of citalopram on a daily basis rather than taking it on alternate days. Citalopram has quite a short elimination half-life, because of this, taking it on alternate days might cause your blood level to fluctuate quite a bit from day to day.
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> Best Regards,
> Ed.That would be accurate, but as an *experiment* I chose to take it on alternate days consistently, to see if I could weed out external stressors as triggers of irritability as opposed to internal *processes* triggering the irritability. I just have found that the SSRI is the TRUE trigger.
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