Posted by LynneDa on February 10, 2004, at 14:35:10
In reply to Another question about increasing, posted by KathrynLex on February 10, 2004, at 14:13:27
Hi Kathryn - I increased to 20 mg from 10 mg about 6 weeks ago and I am much sleepier - but no other major s/e's! My doctor told me to take it at night & see if that helps. I've gradually changed my time later and later each day over the past week. I took it at 9pm last night and only felt sleepy til about 11am this morning. I'm going to back it up to 7pm. That seemed to work best a couple days ago. I was tired enough at night, but not too groggy through the morning.
I have to go out of town tomorrow and present at meetings starting at 6am EST (5am mine) and go til 5pm, then drive 2 hours to my next meeting site. I am very nervous about how alert I will be! But, being only at 6 weeks on the new dose, I'm hoping there's still a chance this s/e will go away eventually.
I'm very glad to hear your panic attacks are diminishing, but I understand the flat feeling - I'm used to being very emotional so it seems even more a departure from my normal comfort zone within my personality. That has gone away almost completely at this point and, as someone else reported, I actually cried the other day - not in a bad PMS-y way, but real tears for real reasons - I hadn't done that since I've been on Lex!
Good luck!
~ Lynne
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> In two days I'm supposed to bump my lex dose up to 20 mg. For about 2 weeks I've been taking 15 mg and it has made me SO tired, I can hardly keep my eyes open. I know it's different for everyone, but will increasing my dose again make me more sleepy? Thanks!
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> K.
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