Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 57708

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Posted by boo on March 27, 2001, at 19:11:48

hi everyone....i've been on ad for years specifically zoloft which worked great for a long time and then all of a sudden it kind of stopped, doc says maybe i need to switch so he put me on effexor....question is he only put me on 37.5 mg a day and zoloft i was taking 200 mg a day....shouldn't he have started me out on a higher dose seeing as i've been on ad before for a long time....any replys are welcome

Re: new to the board

Posted by allisonm on March 27, 2001, at 20:00:50

In reply to new to the board, posted by boo on March 27, 2001, at 19:11:48

boo,

every AD has its own starting and therapeutic doses. I started Wellbutrin, for example, at 100mg, while I started Remeron at 15mg and Celexa at 10mg.

Welcome to the board and good luck with the Effexor. Both have helped many people.

Allison

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Posted by stjames on March 27, 2001, at 20:47:46

In reply to new to the board, posted by boo on March 27, 2001, at 19:11:48

shouldn't he have started me out on a higher dose seeing as i've been on ad before for a long time....any replys are welcome

james here......

No, never. Always start at the lowest dose or you are likely to have side effects so bad you are likely to stop the med. This is even more true for Effexor. Also if you stopped one AD and started another the old AD remains for a while in your body (washout period). It can be as much as a month or more, depending on the AD. Another factor is that all the AD's potentiate each other,
so if you just stopped one and stared the other at a high dose you could end up with a very high level of each in yor body, causing side effects from hell.

James/Pat

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