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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.
Posted by Christ_empowered on December 21, 2014, at 22:20:18
In reply to please help. switching from celexa to luvox, posted by canberra on December 21, 2014, at 22:03:46
wow...I don't know what to say. I think stuff like this happens all the time.
Maybe a sedative?
Posted by Lou Pilder on December 22, 2014, at 5:28:57
In reply to please help. switching from celexa to luvox, 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.
Canberra,
You wrote,[...reduce Celexa and start taking Luvox...horrible side effects...I don't know what's happening...I don't know what I am supposed to do...I'm not okay...Anyone please give me some advice..I. feel hopeless...].
Your psychiatrist could have led you to believe that the drugs she said for you to take will be "medicines". Yet today, you could die suddenly from the chemicals in the drugs that your psychiatrist calls medicines. This is because the chemicals in the drugs that you are taking together can cause a "short" in the electrical aspect of your heart beat in such a way that death is possible.
You see, the combining of these drugs can increase the adverse events {exponentially}. Your "horrible side effects" come from the chemicals in the drugs acting as {nerve agents}. Like insecticides and rat poison that kill the vermin and insects by shorting the nervous system out so that the insect or animal dies because the nerves don't work. Your drugs that you are taking are {fluorinated}compounds based on {benzene} and phenyl and fluoride is used in chemicals even today in the commission of mass-murder.
The drugs can also induce a mind-altered state to compel you to kill yourself and/or others, even commit mass-murder. They can also be addicting and cause a life-ruining condition. This is the road that you are on and you say that you do not know what to do. And many others are also on that same road and say that they are like lost sheep, gone astray, and is the shepherd the psychiatrist? If you are convinced of that, then follow the psychiatrist. But there is another Shepherd. One that leads His sheep to life, and life more abundantly. I am prevented from posting about that here due to prohibitions posted to me here by Mr. Hsuing. But you can choose who for you to follow, can you not? And when you read responses from others here to take this drug or that drug, just remember whose mind those responses are coming from. So Canberra, I'd like you to save the last post for me.
Lou
Posted by Phillipa on December 22, 2014, at 9:07:51
In reply to please help. switching from celexa to luvox, posted by canberra on December 21, 2014, at 22:03:46
When I was first put on luvox over 11 years ago the method was a crossover from what med you were taking. Don't remember what I took. Might have been paxil. Took 50mg the first night with ativan and in the morning since no side effects a second dose of 50mg was given. All total think was on 4-5mg of ativan. Each day the dose was raised by 50 mg till I reached 250mg and then since had been in the hospital was sent home. I continued and did okay. To this day I take 25mg of luvox and now 7.5mg of valium and .75mg of xanax. Does it make me feel what I used to call normal no. But I don't feel any meds are made for long term. Although when started benzos over 44 years ago low doses it was considered normal. Do they now work no. But I'm getting old and I get most of relief from getting out of the house and riding my bike. Phillipa
Posted by phidippus on January 5, 2015, at 21:42:53
In reply to please help. switching from celexa to luvox, posted by canberra on December 21, 2014, at 22:03:46
yeah, you're doc hurried you through the dose titration. I highly recommend you go back down to 100 mg and stay at that dose for another 4 weeks before you increase the dose. I'm on Luvox ;)
Eric
Posted by Elanor Roosevelt on February 15, 2015, at 20:00:50
In reply to please help. switching from celexa to luvox, posted by canberra on December 21, 2014, at 20:28:50
Luvox was a very negative experience for me. just saying that if you continue feeling strange you might want to check out more info about luvox.
but i hope it works for you
good luck
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