Posted by stargazer2 on January 20, 2008, at 22:04:26
In reply to Re: Every single one of you is correct » seldomseen, posted by Larry Hoover on January 20, 2008, at 13:26:57
SS, Just wondering what your dose of Prozac is. You seem to have alot of start up effects and I was wondering if your dosage might be too high.
I'm one of those people who respond at a much lower dose than many others and I think alot of those early effects often caused me to stop the med too soon. I finally said to my pdoc that I felt at lower doses and once I did this, I felt better and had less side effects that had often kept me from staying on any med long enough to know if it was working.
Many people do better at a low doses of some meds, even as low as 10 mg with prozac. And the beauty of prozac is that you can miss a few doses and still feel OK. Most meds do not give you this luxury, some only give you a few hours before your body starts to have effects which indicate you are due for another dose.
P.S. I used to feel so defective because I needed medication to be "normal"...now I thank God when I find a med that can give me this feeling that I once took for granted. The only time I stopped my meds is if they made me feel worse than how I felt off them. The depression always returned without meds. So I know I can never stop the very few that have worked.
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