Posted by mav27 on January 3, 2009, at 7:17:18
In reply to Re: Low dose Geodon: How does it feels ? » mav27, posted by Marty on January 3, 2009, at 2:51:08
> Hi Mav,
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> > What feelings and/or improvments do you get from >the effects on those receptors ?
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> Anxiolytic, antidepressant, improved sleep (anti 5-HT2a), nootropic (memory, executive functions etc), improved sex (mainly by being antidepressant without being anti-sex like the SRI's and NRI's and by being pro-DA) .. that's about it. Without much side effects compared to other antidepressants based on reuptake inhibition or MAOIs. But yeah.. it's not for everyone as we don't have all the same needs whatever which DX we may or may not share.
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> > I have tried 20mg of geodon and it made me feel rather wierd and kind of 'drunk'... a bit light headed and out of it.
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> How long did you stay on the 20mg ? Did a part of the feeling reminded you of Prozac ? At that dosage, did you felt any significant Anti-DA effects ? Also, any side effects to report ?Nah it didn't remind me of prozac at all... although iam still only on 20mg of prozac. (EDIT)The godeon i was on was actually 40mg for 2 days then 60mg for a night and then i stopped it when i couldnt even make it down the hallway to get to the bathroom during the night.
The thing for me though is an increase in noradrenaline gives me bad orthostatic hypotension... so it was probably the godeon doing what it's meant to.I had written the above with mention of 20mg of godeon but i just thought i would take 20mg and see exactly how it makes me feel only to realise the pack actually starts at 40 mg (the doc gave me a titration pack, it starts at 40mg for 2 nights and works up to 80mg)
I've just split a capsule open and devided one up to aprox 20mg so i'll see how it feels :)
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> As DX matters, what's yours ?Depression and social phobia.
> > I tried 80mg just the other day just to see what would happen and felt like crap, was similar to the 20 but with the added bonus of the horrid feeling i get from dopamine antagonism.
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> Horrid is the word. Anti-DA is just effing awful. For the one who doesn't need such a thing as 'less DA', it's a little death in a pill.
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> > Interestingly i recently started prozac as it was the last option for AD's as i've been on all the rest and i havn't been feeling the best on it...
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> Compared to the SSRI's, what was the difference ? If you tried Citalopram or Escitalopram, try comparing with that.
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> /\/\artyWell it just feels weaker at the moment... ssri's space me out like a zombie and cause sexual dysfunction... on the prozac i've been feeling suicidal still so it doesn't feel like much of an ssri/antidepressant. Interestingly though the prozac seems to be improving my ADD like symptoms... normally a 2 hour tv show takes me 15 minutes to watch... now i can actually sit through without my finger on the fastfaward button or having to do a million things at once.
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