Posted by zeugma on August 1, 2003, at 20:10:43
In reply to Lofepramine/Prozac, posted by colin wallace on August 1, 2003, at 15:15:02
Hi Colin
I haven't taken an SSRI long enough for it to have featured in any combinations, but I do take a noradrenergic TCA, and I do have severe inattentive ADD (plus depression, and a few other things) and I can say that TCA's do work for motivation, and they can improve attention as well. But the TCA I am on (nortriptyline) is somewhat sedating, and I find this limits the help I can get for the general 'drifting off' feeling. So I have recently added Strattera, which has really woken me up! I'm planning to taper off nortriptyline in the next month, or maybe cross-taper to a low dose of amitriptyline; I don;t feel like I should stay indefinitely on therapeutic doses of TWO noradrenergic antidepressants.
From what I understand, lofepramine is one of the less sedating TCA's. It might well be as beneficial for ADD as Strattera.
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