Posted by katekite1 on November 2, 2005, at 17:14:01
In reply to The Truth About Paxil, posted by peaceofmind on November 1, 2005, at 17:07:25
You could try a lower dose of Paxil.
Supposedly the response to ssris is basically flat, (a flat line on a graph rather than a curve), meaning (for most people) if it doesn't work and you double the dose it probably still won't work.
The converse of that which I haven't seen discussed at all ever, is that if it works, it may also work at half the dose. Or 1/4 the dose. Or 1/8 the dose, you never know. Of course if you are taking 20 mg and you suddenly drop to 10 mg, you will not be able to know whether it could work at 10 because you'll be in withdrawal from the 20. So the only way to do it is to taper up from a extremely low dose and take one's time, find the lowest effective dose.
The side effects of ssris are supposedly dose dependent. Meaning maybe if one is very lucky, one could take a very low dose that is effective without getting the side effects. I would try something around 1 mg for a month or so and see if it helped, then as long as no weight gain if its not working yet, bump it up to 2 etc... You would have to ask for the liquid Paxil, and for a little syringe so you could dose it out accurately.
Right now, you'll think I'm nuts but hey I'm posting in the right place if I am, I am trying 0.5 mg of Prozac for a similar reason. I had always had bad side effects with the ssris and I'm not horribly depressed right now, just trying to avoid feeling stressed out in a stressful time in my life. So this time I thought, hey I will take a joke dose of it to convince myself its okay. Well it turned out I could feel my few drops of a dose easily, so I thought, why increase it if I can feel it, I even got the sexual side effects from that dose. I've been on it a month and it seems to be doing quite a lot, sleeping better etc. So I'm taking 1/100th the dose some people take. People are all different, in clinical trials they want to find one dose that is effective for everyone? I've always been really sensitive to meds so maybe I just have to find out through experimentation what my own personal effective dose is.
Kate
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