Posted by missliz on April 14, 2003, at 0:59:49
In reply to Re: serzone liver disease, posted by carlyb on April 11, 2003, at 20:18:05
The serzone liver disease thing is so rare as to border on statisticly insignificant- it's like the lamictal skin rash thing, wich was also statisticly insignificant but caused a lot of hysteria. The drug co. wants docs to be aware and look out for this just in case so it got publicized, and blew up into a much bigger deal than it is. Get the liver function tests done, if there's any problem they should catch it and deal with it.
I've heard good things about Serzone / Strattera combos, and my pdoc is offering it to me. I've started the Strattera, love it, but bounced off the walls for the first week at a 25 mg pediatric dose, then calmed right down and went up to 40 mgs. So far I really like it, has a lot of the qualities that I liked so much in MAOIs but without the problems. Give it some time, and you may want to use the peds dosing to go up more slowly than the 40/ 80 mg they reccomend now. People are different, and with a drug this new they often don't know what the best doseage parameters are yet.missliz
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