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Drowsiness
My mom is prescribed with Paxidep12.5 after breakfast and Lonazep 0.5 and Amitryn 10 after dinner for tension, depression, forgetfulness, sleeplessness and fear. Now she oversleeps and is drowsy throughout the day. Is this a side effect of the medicines or is this normal? Because of this she says she cannot go out of the house and has to remain at home.
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Some changes can be made if medicines aren’t being tolerated well. It’s about the fit of medicines also response of patient to medicines. However all these symptoms may settle down if its the first few days of treatment.
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Dr. Era S. Dutta
Psychiatrist
12 yrs exp
Kolkata
Hello. Certain amount of side effects are possible from every medication.
However, all these symptoms could also be due to depression. Was she having these even before starting the medication.
The ideal approach would be to ask your treating psychiatrist who had seen her in the first place.
Further, most side effects reduce after first 3-5 days.
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Re assess with psychiatrist or take a second opinion
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Try to maintain routine activity
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Dr. Arjit Gaurav
Sexologist
12 yrs exp
Gandhinagar
may b but may b disaesa
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