Posted by 4WD on February 22, 2008, at 19:57:44
In reply to Nardil dosage and other tidbits..., posted by stargazer2 on February 22, 2008, at 19:29:45
Well, my pdoc has prescribed it for me to start at 15mg three times a day. I guess I will just have to experiment with the dosage schedule. I did ask him if it would be okay to take 30 in the morning and 15 in the afternoon and said (a bit reluctantly) that yes, I could try that.
I just am not sure how often to take it. Maybe 15 when I get up in the morning (8), 15 at midday (1pm)and 15 in the afternoon about 4 or 5pm.
I've done some searching of the archives and a lot of people have posted that it didn't really matter when they took it as far as the insomnia issue was concerned. That is my main concern about dosing schedule. I'm afraid taking it too late in the day might increase the insomnia. That is my biggest side effect fear. I've had terrible insomnia most of my life and I fear it like the plague. I don't have it now. What cured it was (and I swear this is true) was being on Cymbalta for 4-5 months. I was put on the Cymbalta at a time when I was having moderate insomnia and within a week the insomnia just went away completely. That was in 2004 and the insomnia has never come back (well except for waking up too early for the past few months which is well controlled by 100mg of Trazadone at bedtime.)
So I'm doubly scared of the insomnia issue. I developed such a horror of lying in bed tossing and turning during my insomnia period of 8-10 years when it was especially bad due to Prozac. I am really scared to rock the boat since I have had such relief for the past three and a half years.
I guess it's a measure of my desperation that I'm willing to accept it as a side effect. And I have to keep reminding myself - it may not happen. My trazadone may take care of it perfectly well. I am trying not to project what side effects I'm likely to have - or I'll surely get them.
Anyway...
Marsha
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