Posted by colin wallace on March 16, 2002, at 11:42:10
Prozac trial: I take one 20mg capsule, and within hours feel uplifted, a slightly dizzying or tipsy feeling, and music enters my mind so that I feel like whistling!Hmmmm. A (slightly)giddying state in which to go about one's ordinary life, but great for a Saturday night.Much preferable to feeling like crap-but needs some tuning down I think.
Next day: 200mg Sam-e.Terrific- achieved just the right 'pitch', and life's back in focus.
Next day: 20mg prozac- Yeuch...not fun at all! WAY overstimulated....don't raise your voice at me or I'll ******* pulverize you!!Snarl!Hmmmm.
Must tone this down!Where's my genial good nature gone?? And the whistling...?
Next day: 200mg sam-e- still far too strung out, but human and sociable again by the evening.
Okay, try again.... two days washout.
next day.20mg prozac- whistlin' dixie.
next three days in a row-200mg Sam-e...nothing else.
Fifth day: cautious 20mg prozac...wait for it...aah, a telltale foot tapping to the radio, a breezy 'hello' on the telephone.... a brief whistle and a tentative early morning stiffie, perhaps heralding....anyway, you get the picture here.
Question: Can the therapeutic window of Prozac, or indeed any SSRI be THAT narrow? Can I really benefit from less than 5mg a day?Am I med. hypersensitive? This perhaps seems a plausible explanation.This may well explain my wholesale rejection of all things SSRI in the past.No wonder I turned into Hannibal Lecter on 150mg effexor.Pause for thought.Like the feel of prozac (at infant-like doses),seems to complement sam-e very well.But have to put up with feeling 'overly upbeat and stupefied' every fifth day, till things settle down.
So, I wondered if anyone else has had a similar reaction/overreaction to Prozac , or another ssri.Anyone tried liquid prozac?? (didn't particularly like celexa either..)
Just coming back down to earth..........(whistlin') Col.
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