Posted by SLS on April 17, 2011, at 5:24:10
In reply to Re: Prozac and Anafranil, posted by kolwolf on April 16, 2011, at 16:00:40
> Interesting. Perhaps the two together, at small doses, will be more effective sooner than one or the other at a higher dose?
That's a hard one. I tend to doubt it, at least according to my own observation. It seems to me that you would need full therapeutic dosages of both drugs. However, I would remind you that a therapeutic dosage of clomipramine is that which produces a blood level of about 150-300 ng/ml for depression and 200-400 ng/l for OCD. That could be as little as 50mg of clomipramine when combined with Prozac. Use blood tests. These values are consistent with most of the medical literature on the topic. I saw nothing that would lead me to believe that serotonin syndrome is a likely outcome. There are people on Psycho-Babble who believe that lower dosages are ideal. I would want to see evidence of this contention, though.
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