Posted by g_g_g_unit on February 15, 2010, at 17:36:08
In reply to Re: Bleauberry-Prozac, posted by conundrum on February 15, 2010, at 9:46:56
> According to the following study it took 29 days on average for a response to prozac + placebo. (they were studying whether augmenting with pindolol would speed up the start up improvement of prozac).
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> According to Dr. David Burn's book "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" it can take 5 weeks for prozac to start working, but one should give up to 8 weeks.
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> Most newer drugs like Lexapro and Pristiq should start working sooner, like after 3 weeks.
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> The thing about prozac is you have to wait for the drug to get to a steady state in your blood. If you read the pharmacokinetics here it explains it:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoxetine#Pharmacokinetics
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11199945sorry, i wasn't being impatient re: the therapeutic effect. i am just put out by insomnia, since i struggle with chronic sleep difficulties (as a result of med trials and depression, i guess).
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