Posted by bleauberry on March 23, 2011, at 5:37:01
In reply to What is anafranil 'actually' doing for me ?, posted by Kizzie2 on March 22, 2011, at 6:48:32
I can't really comment much on your questions. I wanted to say that when I see exquisite sensitivities to very low doses, that is a strong clue to me that there is something else going on....not psychiatric, but manifests in psychiatric symptoms.
My Lyme doctor saw a lot of this. Most Lyme patients fit your description. I'm the same way. What he did was keep doses very low and gently ramp it up higher over an extended period of time....months, not weeks or days. My guess is at this time you are feeling not the lower dose, but rather a withdrawal type of phenomenon from going down in dose. With time the lower dose should adjust.
Another option....switch straight over to nortriptyline plus zoloft combination. You'll get much the same mechanism as anafranil, except with a lot less side effects, and more ability to customize both sides of the cocktail for more or less of each of serotonin and norepinephrine.
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