Re: Low Dose Citalopram
Originally Posted by
Waldenpond
I'm actually going to increase to 10mg in the next few days (currently day 8), since that is still below standard - I hadn't realised 20mg was the standard therapeutic dose for Citalopram.
The rule of thumb on dose increases (or decreases) is to not raise the dose earlier than 5 times the half-life of the med as it takes that long for plasma levels to stabilize to a steady-state. For citalopram this is 35 hours x 5 = 175 h/8 days. Increasing the dose earlier may trigger more severe side-effects, however, delaying the increase won't significantly lessen any side-effects spike triggered by it no matter how long the delay.
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