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My medical journal - About escitalopram - dose reduced 5mg

In this blog I have earlier mentioned about the antidepressant tablet that I am taking since 2013. Recently I tried to slowly reduce the dose myself. I had been taking Nexito 30 mg (20 after lunch and 10 after dinner) for long time.  The decision I took to reduce the dose cause I had been sweating unnaturally. After I reduced 5mg the sweating problem gone within a week.  But I didn't stop reducing the dose after 5mg. After few weeks I reduced another 5mg and started taking 20mg. I didn't notice any change for few days but after that I started having digestion problem and loose motion that I couldn't control with medicines. So I again moved to 25mg.  I was buying Nexito 20 tablets from 1mg website via paytm. I was getting some discounts sometimes.  This type of antidepressant tablets must be prescribed by a doctor because without prescription it isn't allowed to sold from a medicine store. Similarly In 1mg also I had to upload my prescription. I have uploaded my presc...

About taking anti depression tablets for too long

I agreed to my father to visit a psychiatrist at last. I remember my last time visit to a psychiatrist was 5 years ago when I broke up with a girl in my college. That time the psychiatrist doubled the dose of the anti depression medicine that I was taking since a year. The first doctor prescribed me the anti depression tablet to the 20mg but I was taking 10mg by myself and everything was fine till the breakup. So I had to listen to the doctor as the 10mg wasn't working anymore. I had a concept about taking the medicines that I can’t stop when I want. But the concept changed today when I visited a doctor again after five years. Five years ago the Dr doubled the dose because I wasn’t taking the prescribed amount that was 20mg. Since then in five years I tried some experiments to lower the dose to check what the lowest amount I needed was. And till today I was taking 20mg for almost  2 years. The doctor I visited today asked me what was the problem and why I had been taking...