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Ten Chips Down · 12-01-2006, 09:08 PM

Hey y'alls -

It was. . . . about eight weeks ago that I came here a complete wreck. I had stopped the Zoloft 100mg I was taking for more than a decade and, well frankly crashed and burned.

What led up to that is a story told in my first postings on SR, but I wound going back on ADs and we went with Celexa 20mg, half the usual ED50.

Well it was like a miracle. In three days (VERY unusual, i know) the cloud was lifted and in 2 months I am just doing fantastically!

. . . i guess one of the most remarkable things is the side-effects.

Like... almost none. LOL I have tolerated Celexa so well it's like taking an aspirin: If not for the lift in depression (and the impotence - oh well :shysmile

, I'd never know I was taking it.

So today I told the good doc that I wanted to go on to a full 40mg just to see what the hell would happen. Told him (oh, and he knows I'm well-versed in psychopharmacology--we talk "shop" all the time lol) I'd play it by ear and that hey, you know--if the side-effect profile increased to a bothersome level, then I would simply cut back to 20mg. He say: no problemo.

So! Starting tomorrow morn, i go up to 40mg citalopram and see how it all works out. Now you may VERY reasonably ask, "John? What are you doing? i thought we should always seek to stay on the lowest effective dose of any medication if we really must take it in the first place?"

And you would be right. The answer is: 1) there is always room for improvement, 2) I'm fighting the stressors of d/c'ing all my BZDs, and 3) supposedly a good level of AD helps with all of that. And stuff.

A-a-a-anyway that's my story and I'm sticking with it.

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So just thought I'd update you guys in a journaling sorta of way.

Will keep you... "posted." Haha!

TenChips

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DYK?

BZD benzodiazepine
EtOH ethyl alcohol
Therapeutic index The safety margin of a drug expressed as the following:
ED50 essentially meaning the average effective dose
LD50 essentially meaning the average lethal dose

12-01-2006, 09:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ten Chips Down Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Virginia, U.S.A. Posts: 847	Progress update: Celexa + 8 weeks! Hey y'alls - It was. . . . about eight weeks ago that I came here a complete wreck. I had stopped the Zoloft 100mg I was taking for more than a decade and, well frankly crashed and burned. What led up to that is a story told in my first postings on SR, but I wound going back on ADs and we went with Celexa 20mg, half the usual ED50. Well it was like a miracle. In three days (VERY unusual, i know) the cloud was lifted and in 2 months I am just doing fantastically! . . . i guess one of the most remarkable things is the side-effects. Like... almost none. LOL I have tolerated Celexa so well it's like taking an aspirin: If not for the lift in depression (and the impotence - oh well :shysmile, I'd never know I was taking it. So today I told the good doc that I wanted to go on to a full 40mg just to see what the hell would happen. Told him (oh, and he knows I'm well-versed in psychopharmacology--we talk "shop" all the time lol) I'd play it by ear and that hey, you know--if the side-effect profile increased to a bothersome level, then I would simply cut back to 20mg. He say: no problemo. So! Starting tomorrow morn, i go up to 40mg citalopram and see how it all works out. Now you may VERY reasonably ask, "John? What are you doing? i thought we should always seek to stay on the lowest effective dose of any medication if we really must take it in the first place?" And you would be right. The answer is: 1) there is always room for improvement, 2) I'm fighting the stressors of d/c'ing all my BZDs, and 3) supposedly a good level of AD helps with all of that. And stuff. A-a-a-anyway that's my story and I'm sticking with it. =-=-=-= So just thought I'd update you guys in a journaling sorta of way. Will keep you... "posted." Haha! TenChips _________________ DYK? BZD benzodiazepine EtOH ethyl alcohol Therapeutic index The safety margin of a drug expressed as the following: ED50 essentially meaning the average effective dose LD50 essentially meaning the average lethal dose