Posted by yxibow on February 9, 2007, at 3:37:32
In reply to Neurontin helpsChills + Sweats when coming off ADs, posted by Alone on February 8, 2007, at 22:00:47
> Just to let everyone know, I experienced chills and sweats when coming off Prozac, but if I increased my Neurontin, they went away. If I decreased Neurontin, the chills and sweats came back.
Interesting -- is this alone or in concerto with the Somatization?
I would believe that a GABA-nergic medication might help coming off an SSRI, such as one of the more.. mm... "unclean" agents like Prozac, which was the first SSRI (well actually the second, there was a disastrous one they pulled in the late 80s in Europe which had a distant relationship to OTC Clorpheniramine Maleate -- trivia, neither here nor there).
Of course the long half life of Prozac makes it a bit easer to come off it, since it isn't out of your body for 35 days -- one reason I wouldn't recommend it as a first line SSRI to someone because once you commit to a dose, its gonna be there for a month, whether you tolerate it or not. Not to say that Prozac responders shouldn't continue what works for them but I think that more recent medium half life agents are far better. Now Paxil is a hard one for some to come off because it has a far shorter half life and there can be interdosal withdrawal from eliminating it.-- tidings
Jay
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