Posted by Racer on September 8, 2005, at 18:25:35
In reply to Re: 2 answers for the price of one » Racer, posted by theo on September 7, 2005, at 23:01:25
> Did you ever have any results at 30mg or did you go straight up to 60mg?
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> I just took half a 30mg, yes, I actually counted the pellets in the capsule and split them, and I feel that same initial SSRI first dose feeling of the weirdies.When I first started it at 30mg, there were certainly effects -- but it wasn't at therapeutic levels by any means. The first effects I noticed reminded me of Effexor, but smoother.
Keep in mind that I'm apparently treatment resistant at this point, but Cymbalta on its own never did do enough for my depression to stick with it as monotherapy. I'm also on Wellbutrin XL, and just added Lamictal (which doesn't seem to be helping at this point, but I'm not up to the Magic Dose yet, either).
For a while, before adding Wellbutrin -- I have an eating disorder, so Dr CattleProd wasn't thrilled to be prescribing Wellbutrin -- we tried 90mg Cymbalta, but it didn't work out. I was too sedated, and apathetic, and amotivated, and so on. Just not acceptable to me.
Hope that helps.
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