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Whether a medicine works can turn on something as ordinary as taking it with food or moving it to bedtime.
Vilazodone is the clear case. On an empty stomach a good deal less of it is absorbed, and the nausea it can cause is easier to sit with overnight…
If a medicine leaves you wired, restless or with a pulse that will not settle, report it rather than tolerating it quietly.
The antidepressants that act on noradrenaline as well as serotonin can raise blood pressure and put nerves on edge, and with some of them that grows…
The same medicine can be dangerous given one way and safe given another. Slow release is not a marketing word.
Bupropion was pulled from the market over seizures and came back once a slow release form existed, because what drove the risk was the sharp peak…
More of the medicine is not automatically better. What you are looking for is a level that sits inside the working range, and going past it usually brings side effects rather than sharper thinking.
It is a natural thought that if some helps a little, double would help twice as much. In practice people describe the higher dose as flat, or wired,…
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If sleep has gone since starting, look at what time the dose is being taken before deciding the medicine is the problem. A long acting dose swallowed at one in the afternoon is still working at bedtime.
Extended release preparations are built to cover eight to twelve hours from whenever they are taken, so a late start pushes the whole thing into the…