those of you who take celexa what dosage are you on? My doctor started me with 40 for a week than said to increase it to 60 the second week, sounds like to fast a increase to me, thanks.
2006-10-02 02:42:35 · 7 answers · asked by sidekick 6 in Health ➔ Mental Health
I have been fighting Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for 8 years and depression for about a year now. I have just been prescribe Celexa and he started me on 20, he said he wanted to start me out lower to make sure this is the drug that will work for me, then he will adjust the dosage to met my condition. I sure think you have been prescribed and awful high amount to start with. Good luck.
2006-10-02 06:02:57 · answer #1 · answered by Michelle Lynn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Celexa (citalopram HBr) should be administered at an initial dose of 20 mg once daily, generally with an increase to a dose of 40 mg/day. Dose increases should usually occur in increments of 20 mg at intervals of no less than one week. Although certain patients may require a dose of 60 mg/day, the only study pertinent to dose response for effectiveness did not demonstrate an advantage for the 60 mg/day dose over the 40 mg/day dose; doses above 40 mg are therefore not ordinarily recommended. Celexa should be administered once daily, in the morning or evening, with or without food.
OCD patients need higher dosages.
2006-10-02 03:16:08 · answer #2 · answered by Ajeesh Kumar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL!! you're irritating over no longer some thing!! Celexa is an SSRI and each and every of the SSRIs are thoroughly threat-free. through that I recommend, no longer some thing it quite is risky or existence threatening will ensue. you're ideal that lacking 4 days of doses will reason withdrawal and it could be bothersome and pressure provinking. yet so some distance as risky? no longer some thing!! The older anti-depressants were very risky. Tricyclic anti-depressants (TCAs) were quite risky in overdose. They intervene with you rheart's organic pacemaker and deliver your heart racing. It also reason your blood rigidity hovering. It develop into once common position to have human beings at ERs with cardiovascular complications from effortless overdoses on TCAs. SSRIs got here out and *POOF*!! All that disappeared! SSRIs do not intervene with the cardiovascular equipment, even in overdose. ER everywhere suggested a dropout of anti-depressant overdose situations. MAOIs were the different anti-depressants and that they had a lengthy list of drug interactions, both prescription and over the counter. there have been also particular meals you would possibly want to no longer eat. The interactions again brought about cardiovascular complications. SSRIs solved that concern too. they do no longer have any drug interactions except for MAOIs (MAIOs are treally the challenge no longer the SSRIs.) you could take the different med or over the counter drug or nutrition and not in any respect difficulty. SSRIs (Celexa is one) have replaced the clinical care of melancholy and pressure complications dramatically. definite, Celexa as withdrawal even with the indisputable fact that that's no longer risky.
2016-12-04 03:18:09 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I took 40 mg. once a day and that was fine. The higher dosage sounds unusual since most start at 20 mg/day.
2006-10-02 02:55:08 · answer #4 · answered by Hootcoot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im on this, i can remember the dosage but i started with half a pill, went to a full pill then they uped it to 1 and a half pills,honestly i really cant notice any difference in my self, and i wasnt comfortable with them increasing my dosage so i have gone back to taking one a day. if your not comfortable with what they say to take, question them on it.
2006-10-02 02:49:35 · answer #5 · answered by thepainter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dose range of 20 to 60 mg/day
2006-10-02 03:20:05 · answer #6 · answered by Delphi p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
20 MG...no increase tho..
2006-10-02 03:00:49 · answer #7 · answered by Frank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋