Posted by dcruik518 on June 16, 2008, at 17:10:52
In reply to Re: Requip for Social Phobia/Depression? » Tony P, posted by SFY on March 25, 2006, at 11:20:07
I hope this post is still alive, or at any rate that people are still interested in using Requip and other dopamine agonists for social anxiety, dysthymia, etc. I've been on Requip for nearly a month now and I have to say that it worked great in the beginning but seems to have lost some of its effectiveness now. I have a couple theories about why. The first is I started taking Pristiq which is the new and improved form of Effexor XR. Effexor always made me anxious in the past and I suspect this stuff does the same thing, but I'm willing to give it one more week. Second, I believe I've been taking way too high a dose of Requip all along--about 6mg/day. At first my body could handle it, but I believe the stuff gradually builds up to higher and higher levels in your blood, so that what use to make me feel good now makes me really groggy and sort of depressed. I've gone down to just 2mg at night and am doing just a little better. Unfortunately, the pills I have are tiny 2mg ones that I can't really split evenly. I'm just hoping I'll feel better once I get off the Pristiq or desvenlafaxine--a rip off in my opinion. ~D
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