Posted by JohnL on May 6, 2001, at 5:50:31
In reply to Serzone Sedation, posted by afatchic on May 5, 2001, at 18:31:15
> Hello All, This is my first post in many months. I suffer from dysthimia (a chronic form of depression) and have been on ADs since 1989. Most of the time, I took Prozac and Trazodone, which are a wonderful combination for me except for the sexual side effects. I tried augmenting with Buspar for a few weeks and had zero results. Now I'm on Serzone. I've been taking it for about a month. I started at 75mg twice a day and am now up to 150mg twice daily. I barely have the energy to work and have started sleeping through my alarm and being late to work. I'm normally very punctual. Anyone have any advice? I've asked my doctor to reduce my dose and let me gradually increase the dose. So far she hasn't responded to my message (and no, I'm not one of those annoying patients who monopolizes a doc's time). Should I be considering augmenting with something more activating? Thanks for your responses
I just plain don't like Serzone much because quite frankly we see few success stories with it. Sometimes it works great, but generally not very often. Usually we hear cases just like yours, where the sedation or something else just created more problems than it was worth. I wouldn't mind being a little sedated if I also felt real good, but that's usually not what happens. Instead, what happens more often than not is that sedation is a problem and the drug isn't working any miracles to make it worth it.
In your case, just based on the limited info in the post, I would consider ditching the Serzone. Instead, go back to Prozac and add Zyprexa to it. Unlike Serzone, Zyprexa sedation usually disappears fairly quickly. And Zyprexa goes wonderfully with Prozac for a whole host of reasons.
John
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