Re: if a med worked the first 5 days then not so much?

Posted by linkadge on December 22, 2008, at 18:18:45

In reply to Re: if a med worked the first 5 days then not so much?, posted by Roslynn on December 22, 2008, at 17:25:42

Early drug effects are *not necessaarily* placebo effects. Some of these meds can supress REM sleep immediately and REM supression can produce fast acting antidepressant effects.
Monoamine reuptake inhibitors can also produce immediate behavioral effects (after all, the monoamine increase happens immediately). I don't necessarily equate this to the full clinical responce, but there is no doubt an acute effect for me (that ususally subsides over a few days for me at least).
I remember first taking celexa I had visual halluciations that caused me to giggle uncontrollably for the first few hours.

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