Re: dosage increase
Originally Posted by
rich999
Hi friends
Me again!
I'm am still having a terrible time on CIT (GAD) and it appears to be doing nothing for my Anxiety. I really don't know what to do, my pdoc says stick with it but I am thinking I need to either a. Have a dose increase or b. Taper off. Just waiting for a call
Back from him. My days are horrendous and I am severely struggling. I am thinking I should just increase to see what happens, I don't think things could ever any worse and I don't want to lose the investment already made. What are your opinions please?
Sorry to keep on about this but this forum is great support.
Thanks
Rich
Rich, remind me, what supporting meds are you taking? Do you have anything like klonopin? And what is your work reality, are you able to taking something mildly sedating for a couple days? If so then klonopin is something to consider, and the sedating effect can be mitigated.
I would strongly recommend against coming off cit in the very near term; if you are really at that level of desperation, then it'd probably be best to switch to 10mg escit and give that a try first, before abandoning the cit/escit ship altogether. The startup crap, bad as it is, is a huge investment and I wouldn't want you to lose that. I think the last thing you want is to get switch to a totally different med and have to start from scratch.
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