The med I take now, I started at the lowest dosage, and it helped! Then it got a little worse so I had to up it one notch, or rather half a notch. I've not upped the med since. I'm on a low dosage. Because when I started on it, there was more info available, the Internet was here, and everyone was wiser.

When I started on SSRI's, there was this myth that for some types of issues, a lower dosage would not help. They started me on 100 mg to up to 200 within just a week. Today this sounds like madness, but this was the very early 90s and what we know today, we didn't back then. Also, just to find anything at all, you had to track down medical magazines and articles, which was really time consuming. The info was almost impossible to get. I did my best and spent hours at the library.

Today the world comes to us at the on switch of the computer.

I trusted my docs back then and what they said about dosage, because I was young and thought they actually knew what they were doing. Also the side effects of the SSRI's, even on max dosage were mild compared to the Anafranil they had me on before, so the side effects sort of didn't give me enough warning.

On the Anafranil my body was covered with red blotches, I suddenly had sleep attacks and had to sleep three hours in the day always, still I couldn't sleep in in the morning, I sweated, I had no saliva and no eye fluid, my eyes were all scratched up and red and inflamed, when I moved I felt I was dragging my body through mud. And when I wanted to pee, I had to sit for ten minutes until anything happened.

So this was what I was used to when I changed to SSRI's....