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Old 11-04-2008, 08:24 PM
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Lightbulb 25 mg of Elavil is still low.

When you get to 50mg, that is when it becomes a bigger gun.
(that is a typical antidepressant dose beginning.)

That is all subjective tho...because people vary. In the old days,
when TCAs were all we had, antidepressant doses were
100-150mg. There was an occasional 300mg/day but that was pretty rare. (I know one patient who died on that dose-she was a diabetic in poor condition). The 10 and 25 were rarely used.
Now it is the reverse.
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