Posted by oracle on November 11, 2002, at 15:51:10
In reply to Please, please help, posted by cab on November 10, 2002, at 17:34:37
> I'm feeling incredibly horrible, with extreme agitation, feeling of terror constantly, extreme hopelessness, etc. I have a couple of questions -- 1) I've been on Paxil 20 mg for 3.5 weeks (after slowly moving up from 5 mg), and it wasn't helping my depression at all (which wasn't this bad until a couple of days ago). My pdoc now wants to try another 4 weeks with a higher dosage (up to 40 mg if I can handle it). Has anyone had an experience of not responding at all to a regular dose of paxil or another SSRI and then responding well to a higher dose?
Given that most do not start responding to ADs for 6 to 8 weeks, you should not be expecting much at this point except side effects.
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