Posted by canberra on December 21, 2014, at 22:03:46
I was on 40 mg of Celexa for over a year but I wasn't happy with it anymore so I decided to switch to something that would be more likely to help with my OCD. My psychiatrist switched me to Luvox so she prescribed me that and gave me a plan to reduce Celexa and start taking Luvox but I think she messed up. She told me to go from 40 mg of Celexa to 20 mg and start taking 100 mg of Luvox immediately and to do that for one week. Then the next week to stop taking Celexa and go up to 200 mg of Luvox. Then the next week to go to 300 mg of Luvox. I am having horrible side effects. I feel like I'm losing it and I'm twitching constantly and I can't stop crying and I don't know what's happening. Then I read that you should decrease Celexa much more slowly and that you should start Luvox with a max dose of 50 and increase by a max of 50 mg each week and stop when you achieve the intended effects. 300 mg of Luvox is the maximum you can take a day so I don't know why she wanted me to immediately begin taking the maximum without even seeing if a lower dose could be effective. I don't know what I'm supposed to do but I'm not okay right now. Anyone please give me some advice because I feel hopeless right now.
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