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Posted by Elizashae on June 20, 2001, at 17:34:37
Hi all. I started taking Serzone a couple of weeks ago. No problems at all. I was getting good sleep but not sleeping to much, and my sex life came back! I only take Serzone and .5 mgs of klonopin. I started with the basic trial pack that starts you at 50mgs for 5 days, 100mgs for 7, 150mgs for another 7 and finally to 200mgs and I seemed just fine until I moved up to 150mgs a couple of days ago. Now I sleep to much, don't feel like doing anything, irritable, etc. Is this depression or side effects and will it go away? Usually when I have this on other medications, my therapist says those are all signs of depression and that I need to go higher. Since I was doing better at both other doses....i'm not sure. I go up again next week anyway to 200mgs according to the trial package. Any one have any experience with this or have any suggestions?
I will say this, everything I have does resemble my depressive moods......but it seems the higher the medication, those should be lifting...just don't know.
Posted by newjersey on June 20, 2001, at 18:32:54
In reply to A question on Serzone, posted by Elizashae on June 20, 2001, at 17:34:37
Hi Elizashae:
I too am new to Serzone. I have got to the point where I am taking 400 mg daily. I have been at this dose for 10 days. Frankly, I felt the same as
you. On the lower doses I was doing quite well. As I increased however, my depression and anxiety symptoms started to return. I added Ativan and now
I am on both meds. What to do? Heck if I know! I decided to stick it out for 6 weeks which will
bring me to July 11. If I am not feeling good by
then I will have to rethink the Serzone. Feel free to email me if you would like to discuss this further. Id be happy to hear from a fellow sufferer! Thanks, Barb
Posted by Noa on June 21, 2001, at 8:44:55
In reply to Re: A question on Serzone, posted by newjersey on June 20, 2001, at 18:32:54
I wonder if it would make sense to talk to your pdoc about staying at the 150 for longer than planned, to see if the sleepiness, etc. go away before deciding to raise the dose.
For the first month or so when I started Serzone, I was groggy and sleepy and uncoordinated and irritable, but these initial effects went away.
I now take 500 at about 1 hour before bedtime, and sleep well, with no sedation or sleepiness in the morning.
Posted by Joe Schmoe on June 22, 2001, at 7:23:26
In reply to A question on Serzone, posted by Elizashae on June 20, 2001, at 17:34:37
I am tapering off Serzone right now. I took it for social anxiety and mild depression. I am tapering off it because it did not really work for the social anxiety. But while tapering up, I noticed that at around 300 mg/day or so, it induced a strong depression which got worse and stayed pretty bad until around Day 50 of the treatment, which was when I tapered up to 550 mg/day, at which point the depression lifted. I don't know if it was the length of time on the drug, or the high dosage, that eventually got rid of the depression. But I have read a number of comments here about Serzone making a depression worse before it got better.
Posted by Zo on June 24, 2001, at 14:57:42
In reply to Re: A question on Serzone, posted by Joe Schmoe on June 22, 2001, at 7:23:26
I found Serzone to be a very "depressing" med, gave it a 3-month trial, ramping as directed, and while the acute pain of depression went away, I wasn't exactly alive. Very strange experience, unlike any other med, even the tricyclics. Never did lift. . .and I was too much a zombie to even describe my state to pdoc. .. it was limbo.
But we're all different!
Good Luck!
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