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Re: Are there any AD's that don't poop-out? » Sarah T.

Posted by cindy lou on February 3, 2006, at 11:18:23

In reply to Re: Are there any AD's that don't poop-out? » cindy lou, posted by Sarah T. on February 3, 2006, at 1:14:18

Hi Sarah,
I take everything at night since all of the AD's tend to make me sleepy. They still cause me fatigue during the day, so that's why we added Dexedrine to the mix, to help offset the fatigue.

I seem to react the opposite to most meds than what the "reported" side effects are. My old pdoc and I used to laugh about it -- he'd say, "well, Dexedrine usually supresses the appetite, but with you it will probably make you hungry!" (Actually it does suppress my appetite, so there are a few ways that I react "typically" to these meds...just not many.)

That's interesting about how the Celexa would wake you up at night for 2 hours. I used to have that happen to me, but I can't recall what I was taking -- I didn't attribute it to a med at the time, but I'm sure it could have been. Now that I have 2 kids who wake me up anyway, and now that I am taking Klonapin at night, I don't usually have that 2-hour stretch. I used to get up, eat cereal, and watch the news.

Also interesting about your hunger ... I know exactly what you are talking about. However, I get that feeling when I am off meds altogether. It is the worst feeling -- that feeling of NEEDING to eat, of some kind of gnawing hunger but not true hunger -- people would try to tell me it was emotional, but I knew it was something physical.

Are you taking anything now? I am glad you got off the Celexa.

Take care,
cindy

> Hi Cindy Lou,
>
> Do you take Lexapro at night or in the morning? Do you take it all at once? It looks as if you take Prozac at night.
>
> When I was on Celexa, I couldn't function at all if I took it during the day, but when I took it at night, I always woke up in the middle of the night at the exact same time, and I'd remain awake for two hours, no matter what I did to try to fall back to sleep. I just had to wait out those two hours, which meant I had to sleep two hours later in the morning in order to get enough sleep.
>
> Another problem I had on Celexa was that when I was awake in the middle of the night during those two hours, I would feel ravenous, but it didn't feel like the healthy, true hunger that I have after swimming or other exercise. On Celexa, I had a most unpleasant kind of gnawing, edgy "hunger" that no particular food and no amount of food could satisfy. It was most unpleasant. I would also sweat profusely during that time. I guess the blood levels of the drug were peaking then. Whatever was happening, it never got better, so I finally stopped it.


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