Posted by YOGI BRONX on November 26, 2008, at 22:07:51
The FDA was supposed to act on approving Ixel by the end of October but, instead, notified the public that it wouldn't make that deadline.
I got tired of waiting and ordered some from Great Britain.
I noticed an elevation of energy,(especially), and mood by the end of the first day, even on only 25 mg. However, last night, after taking the second 25 mg. capsule, I experienced horrible dysuria. I could only manage to urinate enough to ease the pain and, after an hour and a half, repeated the process, - - all night long.
I think that milnacipran is interacting with one of my other meds to cause this but I don't know which one(s). Can anyone suggest a possible interaction. Otherwise, I will have to DC all my other meds and then add them back one at a time, (assuming that the milnacipran, all by itself, doesn't cause the dysuria).
Please help if you have any ideas. This med is the last resort for a number of us with refractory depression. I am being the guinea pig. It would be dreadful if a lousy side-effect prevented me from using what appears, on first blush, to be an effective treatment.
(The dysuria ameliorated today with my discontinuance of the milnacipran.)
Thanks.
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