Posted by Scott L. Schofield on April 21, 2000, at 10:55:08
In reply to Re: Nortriptyline, posted by Cam W. on April 21, 2000, at 0:07:45
> 50mg of nortriptyline daily is a fairly low dose. Currently, I am in the process of following a person who was taking 175mg at bedtime and is being weaned off of it and being switched to Effexor.
This totally contradicts everything I had previously believed about nortriptyline.I was under the impression that 75 mg/day was the average effective dosage.
I was also under the impression that nortriptyline had a very rigid therapeutic window, as was found through many years of observations using blood levels. If this is true, anyone who has not been monitored using blood tests and has exceeded the therapeutic upper bound of this window would be an apparent non-responder when they perhaps would have responded robustly at an appropriate dosage.
What's the deal?
- Scott
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