Posted by bleauberry on June 16, 2012, at 6:15:35
In reply to Re: savella, posted by b2chica on June 15, 2012, at 10:07:11
> would savella help with anxiety at all?
Likely yes and no.
At the start for a few days to a week maybe, anxiety would maybe go up. The feedback loops kick in and then the calming starts. For me Savella was really good at anti anxiety, even though I was terrified it was going to make it worse since it hits norepinephrine pretty good. The first few days I was wired, lousy sleep, nervous, shakey....and that all went away quickly.
Most people I think dose savella too high. Normal doses in my opinion are too aggressive....they cause people to fail and abandon the med without a good trial. This is a med that does it work over months, and so a strategy is needed to stay in the game that long, which to me means using tolerable doses. To me that was 6mg a day (half the smallest dose). And that mere little stupid 6mg worked better than ECT and a backpack full of other meds! Had I tried to stay on regular doses, forget it, it would have been a failure and I would probably be calling it poison. I think this applies to a lot of meds....it isn't always the med itself that is a problem but the dose.
Other people here have tried savella and I recall a couple of them dropped it because the anxiety stuff was too much.....their doses were too high too fast and it's just as simple as that.
No single med helped me more during zyprexa withdrawals or after ECT failure than savella.
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