Posted by bleauberry on May 20, 2009, at 18:28:40
In reply to Avoid serotonergics after bad SRI reaction?, posted by sowhysosad on May 19, 2009, at 20:02:11
I saw my doc today. He said that as sensitive as I am, he has actually had a few other patients even more sensitive. Hard to imagine.
Anyway, he said in all cases it was an unseen yeast or bacterial infection that caused it. The sensitivities went away after successful treatment. So, just another angle to consider, though I'm sure there are a handful of valid explanations.
Anyway, in those sensitive patients, he had one lady who did very well on...you won't believe it...1 drop of lexapro. That's 1mg. Another on drops of zoloft. I talked to a girl with 3 mg lexapro as her perfect dose...more was depressing, less was not enough. And there was someone here a couple months ago that took a sand-grain size of lexapro.
The point I'm trying to make is that when someone has a bad reaction to therapeutic doses of meds, they need to listen their bodies and disregard doses that other people take. You gotta take the dose that your body wants, not someone else's.
Keep in mind that in clincal studies, people like us were not included. Complicating illnesses, infections, sensitivities, previous episodes, etc, are almost always excluded from the trials. So the doses that are preached to us are not representative doses of the population that we are. We at pbabble probably need significantly different doses than the general public, either much higher or much lower.
Just my 2 cents.
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