Posted by bleauberry on February 14, 2013, at 13:57:44
In reply to Re: Savella Low Dose Working » bleauberry, posted by sigismund on February 13, 2013, at 21:51:14
Yeah it sounds like it was too much. I'm surprised my doses are so low. I basically lowered the dose to where ever there were no bad effects to get used to, and then over weeks tried to increase it, every time was a mistake, so I stay at the tiny doses, and I knew all along this was going to be about a 12 to 16 week wait. That's why I didn't want bothersome side effects. To make it that long, it wouldn't be possible.
My dose is the same as yours was, 1/4 of 25mg twice a day. But even just 1/8 is still powerful, but with less bad effects. My doctor says savella is very potent. I don't understand how someone could take a regular dose of say 50mg twice a day, or 100mg twice a day.. Wow.> I give up on things, especially psych meds, really easy. I too took one quarter of a 25mg Savella cap twice a day. I noticed something from the start.....a nice calm feeling, sort of warm, and then a bit later a funny prickly feeling in my skin. Rightly or wrongly I told myself that the warm feeling was the SRI effect and the prickly thing was the NE. That is what made me stop. I didn't feel like forcing myself to get used to it so the side effect (of the prickly skin) would go away.
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> I wonder if I should have persisted? I liked the calm feeling. I could have taken even less, I suppose and tried to find some dose that was even a little helpful. I don't know how people can start on 50mg/d. It would be quite an experience.
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