Posted by blueberry on November 21, 2006, at 7:16:44
In reply to An SSRI can sometimes help within one week, posted by ed_uk on November 20, 2006, at 15:12:58
Years ago I believed that if a med wasn't showing any benefit at all within a week that it should be dropped in favor of trying something else. That was because any med that wasn't working early never really did do much for me in a full trial. I had a theory that the closer the med is to targeting the real underlying problem, and the closer the med is to agreeing with the person's unique genetics, the faster it would work. Actually I still do believe this, but not as enthusiastically as I used to. I have seen people here improve a lot after waiting a month or so when nothing had happened until then.
Generally speaking, all meds that ended up being longterm meds for me worked within the first week, some of them in just 1 to 3 days.
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