Posted by med_empowered on February 11, 2007, at 14:59:56
In reply to Re: Doctor's reluctance to prescribe antidepressant, posted by blueberry1 on February 11, 2007, at 13:29:00
if your doc's really reluctant, you may want something with a short half-life, that way you can pop it, see if it works, and dx it fast if it doesn't. Prozac has a crazy-long half-life of 5 weeks, so I don't think its that great a deal for bipolar--I mean, Symbyax works, yes, but I feel like they could've used a different AD and gotten even better effects w/o dealing with the crazy long half-life. Celexa and lexapro have short half lives; paxil does as well.
Good luck!
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