Posted by Conundrum on January 20, 2011, at 5:54:18
In reply to Re: Prozac isn't kicking in..., posted by morgan miller on January 19, 2011, at 23:19:54
> How long were you on Pristiq?
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> Are you sure that it pooped out for good?
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> How long did you continue to take it after it stopped being effective?
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> Did you or your doctor consider that raising the dose would have helped? Maybe you tried this.
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> I do think giving an SSRI like Zoloft or Lexapro a fair trial, long enough to find your sweet spot dose if there is one, is a good idea, especially if you had not done this in the past.
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> The low dose SSRI plus Nortriptyline sounds like a good idea too.
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> Hope you figure something out this year. I know this rollercoaster ride of trials can be hell.
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> MorganHi,
Looking back at it, I can say I didn't really give Lexapro or any SSRI a fair trial. I chalk most of my cognitive problems to taking an SSRI as a teen. The first drug I went back on after not taking any pharmaceuticals for 7 years was lexapro. I was hardly even taking ibuprophen or aspirin prior to that. I took 5 mgs for a couple weeks then 10 for maybe a week or two and felt spacey and stopped it. Perhaps I should have stayed on it longer.
With pristiq I was on 50 mgs for about two weeks when I noticed it not working as well, so my doc increased to 100 mgs which immediately felt worse and I stayed on that for 2 weeks then back to 50 for about a week, since it started to seem like it was doing something again, but then I stopped. I can't say what it was doing was even worth it, it was so fleeting, its just i would look at something and it would trigger a memory or feeling, it was like being in black and white with ocassional bursts of color. I know its hard to explain to someone who is used to rating things on a scale of calm to nervous, or sad to happy, stable to manic, but for me that drug was on the grey to color scale. I'm more convinced I gave that drug a fair trial than I had with SSRIs.
Lexapro was the only other drug SSRI I tried other than prozac. Perhaps zoloft would be worth a shot especially since the higher doses of prozac that i tried caused flatness, although maybe that would have gone away with time. Lexapro caused spaciness but not flatness. Pristiq felt more balanced to me.
Complaints: post-SSRI problems: anhedonia, memory and concentration problems, sexual anhedonia. )
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Currently taking 2.5 mg prozac, Multi B vitamin
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