{"id":511,"date":"2008-11-20T15:57:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/11\/20\/bipolar-disorder-and-pristiq-desvenlafaxine-a-new-antidepressant\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:32","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-pristiq-desvenlafaxine-a-new-antidepressant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-pristiq-desvenlafaxine-a-new-antidepressant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Pristiq (desvenlafaxine): a new antidepressant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">I recently opened a magazine and saw an antidepressant (Pristiq) I had never heard of- so I asked my coauthor Dr. John Preston to explain the\u00a0mistique of Pristiq! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Hi&#8230;Pristiq <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">(desvenlafaxine)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">is a clone of Effexor&#8230;I like it because the starting dose is often the therapeutic dose (50 mg)&#8230;with Effexor you had to start low (37.5 mg) and gradually increase the dose (often up to 150-300 mg)&#8230;also Pristiq has somewhat less nausea than Effexor&#8230;.but like all antidepressants is absolutely can cause mania&#8230; John<o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">**<o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">And as we all know&#8230; people with bipolar disorder can&#8217;t take antidepressants alone- and if they do take them- it needs to be in combination with a mood stabilizer such as lithium, depakote or tegretol! <o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Pristiq sounds like a resort! Who names these things! <o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Julie\u00a0<o><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o><\/o>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><\/span>PS: If you view this blog from amazon.com, you can see the whole blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\">www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently opened a magazine and saw an antidepressant (Pristiq) I had never heard of- so I asked my coauthor Dr. John Preston to explain the mistique of Pristiq! <\/p>\n<p>Hi&#8230;Pristiq (desvenlafaxine)is a clone of Effexor&#8230;I like it because the starting dose is often the therapeutic dose (50 mg)&#8230;with Effexor you had to start low (37.5 mg) and gradually increase the dose (often up to 150-300 mg)&#8230;also Pristiq has somewhat less nausea than Effexor&#8230;.but like all antidepressants is absolutely can cause mania&#8230; John <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>**And as we all know&#8230; people with bipolar disorder can&#8217;t take antidepressants alone- and if they do take them- it needs to be in combination with a mood stabilizer such as lithium, depakote or tegretol! Pristiq sounds like a resort! Who names these things! Julie <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>PS: If you view this blog from amazon.com, you can see the whole blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\">www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-pristiq-desvenlafaxine-a-new-antidepressant\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/12130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}