Posted by grace on October 19, 2002, at 9:46:34
In reply to dosing » Grace, posted by pharmrep on October 18, 2002, at 18:24:51
Why claritin? It is an allergy med, but in the doctor's study that he did in office, they found, by accident, that one of his patients happened to be taking an SSRI and had significant sexual side effects.
So he started taking the claritin and his sexual side effects went away. So his psychiatrist thought, what the heck and tried it on a few other patients and it worked. My doctor only has the one study published
to go from, but since it can't really hurt to try it (unless you're allergic or something) it was worth a shot and it seems to have helped. Kinda weird, but I've seen stranger things :-)As for the 15 mg.....we'd been talking about upping my Celexa a bit due to some more depressive issues, so she's said try the 10mg of Lexapro and if I do okay on that (i.e. it doesn't give me weird feelings), then go
up to 15 and stay there for awhile to see how it goes....knowing full well that I can decrease to 10 or whatever I need to do.
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