Posted by zero on January 4, 2006, at 17:37:03
In reply to Success with just Cymbalta pellets? not full dose?, posted by spriggy on January 1, 2006, at 21:36:26
I've used 4-8 pellets of Cymbalta a number of times when depression gets really bad (Effexor pellets same story). It boots me up out of depression.
I am very antidepressant sensitive (I get hypomanic/manic from all classes of them, at anything close to standard doses).
For 2 years I got significant benefit from Paxil 2.5mgs per day. Years ago I had a great 3 month period on 15mgs of Nardil, then the hypomania/mania kicked in.
I was in the "STEP-BD" program at Bellevue in NYC for bipolars, where I told my assigned doc' how I respond (he wanted me on a standard dose of Celexa) - he laughed and told me it was "impossible to get any response at those kinds of pediatric doses!"
Like who would know better than him anyway? Certainly not me, it's just my mind/body and my own observation of that. I left the STEP-BD program as soon as I could because of this doc'.
Still, every once in a while I use a tiny dose of Paxil or Cymbalta or Effexor to get my placebo/impossible/helpful antidepressant effect.
Everybody's different.
z.
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