Posted by linkadge on April 25, 2006, at 16:02:29
In reply to Re: Parnate.......... » linkadge, posted by Caedmon on April 24, 2006, at 18:38:55
If you were adjusting dosing and administration by yourself without a doctors knowledge that would probably be a flag.
As far as poopout, nobody really knows why it happens, and it may just be that it is the same sort of phenomina as with regular drug addiction. I mean, what is the difference between tollerance to prozac and tollerance to cocaine? I suppose tollerance to cocaine could happen faster.Some doctors find it a little disturbing when they need to keep upping their patients' antidepressant in order to achieve a similar effect. The phenomina is not unheard of. Lots of people on effexor for instance, find themselves slowly creeping from 75mg to 450mg. Some people do fine on a fixed dose for a long time though.
I'm not sure what to think, about dosage escalation. If you have reason to believe that a a dosage increase could benifit long term, then it could be ok. If however, you see that you are requiring regular and predictable dosage increases, that might not be so good.
I don't think that dose escalation is really all that common for parnate's theraputic effect. I guess you need to know the difference between a theraputic poop out, and the desire to increase it to get more of a kick.
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