I've just started to try an anti-depressant for pain. It's Doxepin and I've got it in liquid form. I took one drop the other night, a very tiny drop and I had a new kind of debilitating dizziness the entire next day which finally wore off that evening.
Is anyone else here micro-dosing ADs and if so can you please share your experiences with them? A micro-dose is 5 mg or less.
Thanks in advance,
teej
Teej,
At one point I was taking up to 20 mg of doxepin at bed time. I got some level of stomach pain relief and some better sleep with it. I started getting more and more hungover from it and started decreasing the dose until I was at 5mg which didn't help me.
I am not medication sensitive, except with antidepressants. Side effects hit me at VERY low doses now. Messing with neurotransmitters dosen't seem to agree with me. The only exception is trazodone which I take for sleep, but at a lower dose than is ever prescribed for depression, not that it"s used for that much anymore.
So I'm not sure if that helped but before I got ultra-sensitive it did help with stomach pain, at the time my only pain - not so now.
A drop sounds like much less than 5mg. I had a 1mg/ml suspension and I would guess 5ml was perhaps 20-30 drops. I had a little syringe so I didn't measure by the drop.
Diziness dosen't surprise me but the severity does. It sounds severe enough to be of serious concern - it sounds like you are more sensitve than I. If you can I'd drop the dose to 1-2mg, although you may already be below that if you just took a drop. If you can't drop the dosage I'd speak with your Dr. If you can drop it go low and titrate very slowly.
Best of luck,
Otis