Thread: switching meds
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Old Nov 09, 2009, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by LittleMissSunshine View Post
Here's a question, how long has everyone waited before changing between medications? was it usually immediate that you knew or took a year or so to plateau/ show negative effects?
I took fluoxetine for about 6 months before I switched. I have always found it difficult to ask for a change - tend to feel it's my fault they haven't worked, that I'm doing too much / too little, or the wrong thing. After that I took trazodone for a couple of months - good for sleep, not good for anything else - then took venlafaxine as well, and then have changed a few times since then. The later switches were suggested by my pdoc, I didn't have to ask.

How about you?