Posted by Mr.Scott on February 6, 2003, at 13:47:53
In reply to Re: Muscle Pain/Stiffness/SSRI Question. Please Help!, posted by vagen on February 6, 2003, at 5:46:53
Thanks for your posts!
Here's what I'd like to add. I take a multi-vitamin daily and regularly use magnesium at about 500-1000mg/day (sometimes I skip a day though). I will buy some Potassium today (thanks for the post). The pain and spasm is quite intense.
In my experiement last night it took 150mg (no joke!) of Benadryl to kill the pain and spasms and it worked except I awoke quite late today. Now Benadryl is like cogentin and artane and used for EPS, but that still doesn't necessarily rule out Ritch's GAD theory.
My question in the end would be something along the lines of "Given the fact I am quite depressed without an SSRI, would you continue to use them even though they caused dystonia or spasms that required anticholinergics?" Or would you switch to a tricyclic, or back to Effexor which gave me less muscle problems, but also had it's own host of perhaps lesser problems.
Let me know your thoughts, since I see a decision coming up for me fairly soon..
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