Posted by lucie lu on October 27, 2008, at 19:12:13
In reply to Is anyone taking doxepin?, posted by Quintal on October 27, 2008, at 15:44:30
> Or taken it in the past? I'm particularly interested to know if anyone is taking it for sleep, and what dose? Is there any hangover with it?
I was on doxepin years ago. This was before SSRIs and other more modern A/Ds, and I didn't respond very well so my pdoc at the time just gave me whomping great amounts of it - as much as 450 mgs! It worked because I think I was too zonked to even be depressed. But boy, I slept like a baby.
At MUCH lower doses, I can imagine it being effective for sleep. Despite the megadoses I was given, the side effects were not too bad, considering - usual TCA side effects like postural hypotension, urinary retention etc. But I really doubt you'd get much of any of these taking 1-2% of what I was on. At least that attests to its safety (I survived both the depression and the treatment). It was cited as the drug they gave to "elderly" patients. I was young enough then to not take offense ;-)
Have you already been through the trazedone and amitriptyline routes?
Lucie
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