Posted by tensor on February 11, 2012, at 13:02:38
In reply to I Feel Ad's Are A Lot More Addictive Than Benzos, posted by Phillipa on February 11, 2012, at 11:57:21
> I did my own experiement I increase the lexapro from 2.5mg to 5mg for about a week. last night decreased it again to 2.5mg with the 50mg of luvox and now .25mg of xanax & 7.5mg of valium and find I have side effects today. How could this be possible. A simple low dose upped for a week? And I can do this with benzos and feel nothing. I do feel that these meds are strongly addictive. So why the fears of docs and benzos and free prescribing of SSRI's and similar ad's? Phillipa
I don't have any scientific basis for this, but for me I can dose clonazepam between 2-6mg depending on my anxiety, and have no withdrawal symptoms. It's when I get down to appr. 1mg things start to get nasty, so it's like there's a treshold. Maybe it has something to do with receptor occupancy, if it falls below a certain percent you will notice it, i.e. withdrawals.
I don't find it strange though, that you feel side efftects after lowering the SSRI dosage, that's normal./t
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