Posted by drbill on February 27, 2005, at 21:12:12
In reply to is zoloft less or more stimulating than luvox?, posted by greg diamond on February 27, 2005, at 20:27:08
What follows was orignally posted elsewhere, where people were concerned with fatigue. Read the chart bottom up to go from "least activating" to "most activating" (more or less).
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I pulled together the info on somnolence from the prescribing information for different drugs. My experience hasn't exactly followed the statistics, but it's not too far off. I combined the data for depression and anxiety trials, where available (ie for Lexapro, somnolence was 6% for depression, 12% for anxiety, for an average of 9%). The first number is % of somnolence and the second, in brackets, is abnormal ejaculation, also a major problem with these drugs.
Ranked from least to most sedating:
Wellbutrin 2% [none?]
Cymbalta 7% [3%]
Lexapro 9% [12%]
Prozac 12% [no good data]
Zoloft 13% [14%]
Effexor XR 15.5% [14%]
Luvox 23% [8%]
Paxil CR 23% [13%]---------
Originally posted here: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20050227/msgs/464056.html
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