Posted by bleauberry on August 21, 2013, at 18:30:32
In reply to Parnate bad for me, posted by Lamdage22 on August 3, 2013, at 6:14:43
Responding to the original post, I think it is easy to get the dose wrong. We all do it. Doctors do it. What I have observed in my journeys is that the doses appropriate could be as little as 1/10th of the minimum dose size, or as much as 2 times the maximum. It all depends on the patient and whatever unknown malfunctioning circuitry is going on.
When I tried parnate I discovered my best dose was 2.5mg per day. An MD I used to see who specialized in resistant cases had seen patients do well on as little as 1mg of lexapro, but have bad reactions at higher doses.
I've experienced all that myself. I don't know what your dose was, but if it were me I would lower it way back, customizing the doses probably, and do whatever needed to stay in the game to give it a shot. It could work out to be a miracle, but the first hurdle is to get off the starting line. Too high of a dose brings on all kinds of bad reactions. For some reason, we tend to blindly assume that whatever the medication booklet says or whatever the writing on the pharmacy bottle says, there is no way for anyone to possibly know if that is your right dose.
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