Posted by sowhysosad on April 11, 2009, at 16:04:20
In reply to Re: Wellbutrin 150 mg low dose? » sowhysosad, posted by garnet71 on April 11, 2009, at 3:18:59
> Thanks for your reply. I've never ventured into the realm of those other drugs, but was thinking about alternatives recently, including SSRIs. I really don't remember the dosage of Effexor i took or what the protracted effects were since the initial script; it's been too long.
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> But I've been lucky because I haven't had a trace of anxiety in days. It just disappeared again. I was beginning to think it was situational, but I'm facing some pretty intense deadlines right now and have been symptom free.
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> It seems like something/someone else is controlling my brain in making anxiety appear and disappear at their free will, like someone has an Anxiety Voodoo Doll of me..lol.
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> Hey - did you ever think of changing your screen name to GetHappy, or something similar?
>lol! maybe when my depression finally goes into remission!
Great news about your anxiety.
I've had good results with some of the SSRI's, but I guess startup anxiety could be an issue for you.
Based on what d/r taught me about sigmoid function it seems that all dual-action drugs are pretty gimmicky, unless you push the dose really high and risk more long and short-term side effects.
Logically it would make more sense to combine a solid SSRI with a noradrenergic tricyclic. You'd be able to use lower doses and have more control over the proportion of reuptake.
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