Posted by Cindy W on January 6, 2000, at 19:51:31
In reply to Re: Serzone, clonazepam, and hostility?, posted by GS on January 5, 2000, at 20:50:09
> > I have never taken Klonopin, but do take serzone, and during the first 4 weeks or so, did feel agitated and super-emotional. Others on this board, like Dee, expressed feeling agitated and enraged, I think. But for me, it passed after that initial period of time. I would say it is worth keeping the trial going at least another few weeks, and then if these problems persist, to consider the serzone not a good option for that person.
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> The strange thing is (I had the exact same experience with rage on the stuff) Serzone was supposed to be the new AD when it came out several years ago that treated both depression AND relieved acute anxiety at the same time. My pdoc said it was designed and tested at Rush St. Lukes in Chicago where alot of the new ADs are born. It's claim to fame was that one wouldn't need something like a benzodiazapine along with the AD to calm the anxiety that came along with the mixed anxiety/depression. Goes back to that desire to develop a drug that eliminates the need for "addictive" benzodiazapines (which we all know by now are safe and not "addictive" for anxiety if managed properly by a skilled pdoc.)
> My previous pdoc insisted that serzone would work alone on both problems as he had worked with the researchers over there at Rush. He was from the old school that didn't think that benzos were a safe way to treat severe anxiety and insisted that serzone would do the trick.
> Well I don't know how much suffering I went through so that he could prove his theory but at least two years worth...and all the rage I keep hearing about now on this board over the last couple of years about serzone...I lived with it for around two years myself.
> Finally got a new pdoc that would treat me a little less like he was an idealogue (you know, with an agenda) and am doing fine now on Neurontin in small dose and Ativan on moderate to high dose.
> Gee. I wonder what Dr. Jensen would say to all of this? ;-)
> GS
> ************************************************I took Serzone for a few months, at 450 mg/day. At first, I experienced the rapidly changing moods and hostility people have complained about; however, these diminished, as did my social anxiety and depression, in the third week.--Cindy W
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