Posted by Vincent_QC on April 12, 2009, at 19:51:34
In reply to Now It's luvox and Others., posted by Phillipa on April 9, 2009, at 20:25:22
> Fluvoxamine tablets and controlled-release capsules are indicated for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder; the capsules can also be used to treat social anxiety disorder.
>Thanks Jan ;-)
Hummm...I also think it's a new patented thing for the Luvox-CR...but that's important information...I still prefer to get advise before I take a new meds of any serious interractions...By the way...it's write that the capsule can be use for social phobia... I always wonder if Luvox was helpfull more than the others SSRI'S for the social phobia???
I write above a list of all the newer AD's I try in the past and the results...
Someone on the babblesite can told me if the Luvox is more good than all the other SSRI, or I should go with the newer Pristiq???
- Prozac (get very unstable on it, was ok at 20mg, but no improve so increase at 30mg... 1 week after, I get a lot anxious, 3 times more than usual and had to increase my benzos intake, it was my 32yo birthday and we go all the familly to the restaurant, I had to leave I was thinking I was becoming crazy!!! I was not able to tolerate it at all), worse my social phobia in general and my anxiety... no weight gain on it... I had also a small dose of Remeron at the same time for sleep...
- Remeron: 60mg...the one who disolve in the mouth... OMG... waste of time...sedation, weight gain...nightmares all night long... 3 months or more on that dose... nothing for the anxiety, general or social... just make me think about food...
-Zoloft: Do nothing...major weight gain..but no side-effect at the maximum dose for 3 months or more...try it 2 times in the past...and by nothing I really mean nothing... I feel like I was on a placebo... I ask for the real Zoloft, not the generic because I had read somewhere that the Generic was not good at all...
-Paxil: The one I take the longest time...4 years...I was just turning at the time...I was on 60mg/day... felt no improve, the therapy and the psychologist I had at the time was more helping me than the Paxil...I gain more than 150 pounds on it, had to do severals proteine diets to loose weight... stop it around 23yo...was put on Celexa and Zoloft after...
- Celexa: Same as Zoloft...with the weight gain and no side-effects at 60mg day for 3 months...it was new when I try it back in 1999 (Canada)...
- Lexapro: 30mg day, Worse of all the SSRI's...major weight gain, worse my anxiety, dizness, daytime sedation, lack of motivation and energy, no interrest in life...totally kill me (last september,october and november 2008...had to take Ritalin with it to have some energy...don't help also...nothing for the anxiety, worse my state... Take it with wellbutrin also...nothing to improve my dizness and tired feeling...
- Effexor-XR: Try it 2 times...the last time was in the summer of 2008...more than 400mg/day...gastric by-pass restriction so had to take severals pills of 75mg at different hours of the day...worse my anxiety, make me taking too much xanax, 8 mg day...end at the hospital...2 months on it at this dosage...nothing for my social phobia or general anxiety... Was less bad for the sedation...in fact, make me more agitated...no wonder why I increase the benzos intake...
- Cymbalta: Never try it...another XR formulation...seem to be more acvite in the NE than field than the Effexor-XR...but I know some people on it personnaly and they feel quite anxious on it (my sister especially)...and make the heart rate more fast... More good for fybromialgia and pain...in general...
- Nardil: 75mg/day for 3 months...nothing for social phobia or anxiety...a lot of sedation...no weight gain... tired all the time, had to drink a lot of coffee... just help me reduce the benzo intakes at the time...go from 8mg of Rivotril day to 4mg...so after 3 months, increase the dosage to 90mg day...was not able to stay at this dosage...orthostatic hypotension was intoloreble...
- Parnate: High blood pressure, hypotension...make my heart f*ck up...help just to reduce my benzos intakes...cut the Valium 20mg to 10mg day...
-Manerix: Headache...migraine...call it like you want...hate it the week I was on it...
-Clomipramine: Get anxious...had eyes burning sentation, strange sensation in my head, repetitive thoughts...3 weeks at 50mg was enought for me...look like a BAD SSRI'S, not a clean drug at all...
-Nortriptiline: Heart problem...fast pulse rate...
- Pristiq: My next option if the Marplan is not approved... is it worthing the try? Nobody answer to that question the last time I post a thread on the babble site...
-Luvox: Never try it... is it worse than the others SSRI'S for the weight gain??? Is it a clean drug? Did 300mg/day can help me for the social phobia and my general anxiety, without getting me always tired at daytime and increase again my benzos intake?
Thanks for any inputs...
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