Posted by yxibow on January 4, 2006, at 21:02:50
In reply to Luvox anyone??, posted by overtheedge on January 4, 2006, at 5:17:49
> Has anyone taken luvox, i tried doing a search, so you all didn;t have to start repeating yourselves, but, i was not going back till october i was getting dizzy, ok rambling....
> did you like it , side effects, weight GAIN? tell me i will not start it before i know all about it from real people not just some dr'd advice..thanks....Before I was switched to Cymbalta a bit after it came out, I took Luvox from 2002 to 2005 give or take. It was selected for me because it is the most sedating of SSRIs and thus would have the least negative anxious effects.
It worked actually quite well once I got up to 400 [it is normally listed in the PDR at 300 but doctors typically exceed that. I think we dropped it a little bit because I was experiencing some electric shocks while excercising, which I still do with Cymbalta. Its a serotonergic effect of a lot of SSRI/SNRI/SSNRIs although its probably not a major side effect.] (and a little bit over that I think for a short bit), it stopped my OCD component of worrying 16 hours a day what may happen to my illness or what medicines would do to me and back and forth, etc. (and also downregulated dopamine a little, which was also a necessity for my problem) of my rare and complicated somatiform disorder.
It is the only SSRI that was specifically created for OCD although Paxil or Prozac are equally allright, Prozac is not as "clean" a drug though.
I dont believe I experienced much weight gain from it -- it can put on a marginal amount of pounds because it is the most sedating of SSRIs, but we're probably only talking in the range of 5 pounds or so. You may vary.
Shortly after I started it, it was orphaned off into generic land, I guess because newer SSRIs were already on the market and it wasn't making money probably. But that saved cost. So what you will get now is fluvoxamine maleate generic -- I think there is at least one, maybe two suppliers. But there was no particular appreciable difference between generic and the discontinued patented.
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