Posted by merpmerp on December 6, 2010, at 13:53:12
In reply to Re: Pdoc meeting summary, posted by ed_uk2010 on December 6, 2010, at 13:34:03
Right, I don't know the exact conversion or if such a thing can even be done, but I sat there stunned for a minute because I was certain that 2.5 mg Lexapro does not equal an even smaller dose of Prozac!
I said to her (I'm not very assertive so I phrased it as a question), "But isn't Lexapro the most selective of the SSRIs so you could say it's 'stronger' than Prozac?" and she gave me a dodgy* answer about how you couldn't really make that claim or comparison, despite the fact that she had just made that comparison by telling me that 2.5 mg Lex = 1 mg Proz.
> It is. I'd say that 2.5mg of Lexapro is more like 5mg of Prozac, but response will vary.
*my interpretation
Diagnosis: recurrent melancholic depression
Meds: Lexapro since Sept. 2009
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