Posted by Ritch on March 11, 2005, at 10:09:27
In reply to Re: Celexa mini-doses » Ritch, posted by Sarah T. on March 11, 2005, at 3:36:26
> Ritch, hi again. May I ask what other medications you are on besides Celexa? It sounds as if you have a good pdoc, or did you just work the mini-dosing out on your own? I wish I could find a really good psychopharmacologist. Sometimes I get so fed up!
I'm rapid-cycling bipolar with panic disorder and am on Depakote as an antimanic, with clonazepam for panic. The "mini-dosing" started with the first SSRI I took back in 1992 which was Prozac. I started off with 20mg every day as directed, but after about a week I couldn't stand the activation and insomnia and started halving doses until I arrived at 2.5mg/day which worked fairly well for several years. I only needed to push it up to 5mg for a few weeks during depressive episodes. So... all that got worked out on its own. I just reduced the med to make it more tolerable. I'm thinking of spreading the 1/2mg dose out to every three days and see what happens. Because if I could get off altogether, and just take my other two meds without having panic symptoms return -- *without* needing to increase the clonazepam.. I would prefer that if possible. But, if I just *have* to take a little SSRI, the micro-dosing method "works" for me.
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