Posted by herpills on October 18, 2010, at 6:30:55
If you find a med to longer be as effective as when you first started with it, to you up the dose to the max of do you move onto something else?
I used to be on 5mg Lexapro, 200mg Lamictal, and 1mg Klonopin. I've also used Geodon for an acute mixed episode.
Anyway, I went off Lexapro last February and went off Klonopin in August. Then had a major relapse of depression, spent 10 days in hospital...
Now I'm back on the same meds as before, but it's 15mg Lexapro, 300mg Lamictal, and 1.5mg Klonopin. New pdoc mentioned the possibility of Pristiq or Cymbalta but we decided to go with what has worked in the past.
So far this combo is working well but I'm concerned about side effects at these doses. I hate the tinnitus I get from the Lexapro, and it also makes me wake up in the middle of the night, and the Desyrel I have doesn't really help. I also feel some cognitive issues but I don't know if it's from the Lamictal or the Klonopin.
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