Posted by highhatsize on December 28, 2009, at 12:01:40
In reply to Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Savella, posted by bleauberry on December 26, 2009, at 16:34:35
I found out about Milnacipran about two years ago and was so anxious to try it that when the FDA postponed approval a year ago in October, I obtained it from Great Britain by mail. The brand name over there is "Ixel". It comes in 25 mg. and 50 mg. caps.
I took 25 mg. 2X daily as the patient instructions prescribed. When the second capsule took effect in the evening I couldn't urinate for twelve hours. It was scary.
Subsequently, I read on this forum that some posters thought that the prescribed dosage was enormously large. One poster had success by cutting it to 6 mg. from 25.
However, dividing a capsule in quarters is difficult, and the dysuria was frightful, AND I had terminated my Shrink so I would have had to admit to my g.p. that I was using a med unapproved by the FDA. Or, order more meds from GB. So I ended the trial. I had planned to resume the attempt at a lower dosage when the dysuria was not such a distinct memory, but never did. I was not so bad off that it was essential and I subsequently discovered that another drug, (read the diphenhydramine thread), made me feel, actually, pretty good.
One poster on this board stated about 18 months ago that he didn't know of anyone whose depression was NOT ameliorated by this drug. It was the side-effects that made people drop it.
My reaction was so immediate and severe that I never had the time to evaluate it.
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