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- From: jgnassi@athena.mit.edu (John Angelo Gnassi)
- Subject: Re: Prozac side effects
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:30:27 GMT
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- In article <274.9211041413@bonzo.xylogics.com> rollo@xylogics.com (Dena Rollo) writes:
- >a) recommend continuing medication to see
- >if symptoms subside
- >b) decrease dose to every other day
- >c) discontinue
- >d) discontinue and try a different anti-depressant?
-
- One other possibility which I've seen used is to dissolve one 20 mg tablet
- in a glass of orange juice, drink half one day and the other half the next.
- I don't know if this will disturb the effect of the medication in any
- way, but I don't know why it should. I also don't know if this method
- has been tested in any systematic way.
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