Posted by Reggie BoStar on August 30, 2009, at 21:16:42
In reply to Re: From Pristiq to Effexor, increased exhaustion? » Reggie BoStar, posted by Phillipa on August 29, 2009, at 20:06:54
Phillipa,
That does sound creepy. In fact, on top of everything else I'm a hypochondriac. Any sensation like the one you describe would do more than just scare me.3mg would be far too much for me. I was lucky to find out about this on only 1mg, which was bad enough. I've never even tried 3mg.
I looked for agomelatonin and got redirected to Agomelatine. That does look interesting. The Wiki article compared it to Paxil as an antidepressant, but said that Agomelatine doesn't have the same "discontinuation effects". I know what "discontinuation effects" are like with Paxil. They're not fun at all.
I've never heard of this stuff. According to the Wiki article, it may not be approved for use in the US until 2012. Novartis has dibs on it here. Who knows what all that means given the political climate over health care in this country. Anything could happen.
So when you say it seems to work for quite a few, are you talking about patients in the EU?
Oh, here's the Wiki article. Like all Wiki articles it's worth reading provided you check the sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agomelatine
Later,
Reggie
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