Posted by bleauberry on March 13, 2011, at 8:37:16
In reply to Is 35mg anafranil still an 'actual' dose?, posted by kizzie2 on March 7, 2011, at 10:57:30
It doesn't matter what an "actual" dose is. What matters, and all that matters, is how you personally feel on any particular med at any particular dose. Genetics, body weight, metabolism, other unseen yet undiagnosed complications....all of these play a role.
Keep in mind, most of the doses recommended were arrived at by researchers and pharmaceutical companies who had mostly cherry-picked patients. They were not, for the most part, fair representation of average patients sitting in waiting rooms.
My Lyme doctor starts patients at 1mg Lexpro, and that ends up being the final dose for some of them.
Ultimately however, deserves mention, their depression dissolves on antibiotics not antidepressants. A lot of curing of depression happens outside of psychiatry, since psychiatry is not involved in the cure. It only attempts at make guesses that might minimize symptoms.
My best dose of Nortriptyline was 3.5mg, along with 6mg Zoloft. Oh yeah, forgot Milnacipran....18mg. None of these are even close to a supposed starter dose.
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