Details
Stimuloton Indications
- Depression, including its form, accompanied by a sense of anxiety in the presence or absence of a history of mania.
- Panic disorder with agoraphobia presence or absence.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in adults and children.
- Social phobia (social anxiety disorder).
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
If a satisfactory result on continued treatment sertraline therapy is an effective means of preventing relapse of the initial episode of depression and its occurrence in the future; relapse of the initial episode of OCD; panic disorder, initial episode of PTSD, social phobia.
Contraindications
Hypersensitivity to any component of the drug; concurrent use with MAO inhibitors because of the risk of serotonin syndrome with symptoms such as agitation, tremor, hyperthermia, and a period of 14 days after its cancellation (and vice versa). Concomitant use of pimozide; unstable epilepsy.
Dosage & Administration
Stymuloton should take 1 per day (morning or evening if possible), regardless of the meal.
Depression and OCD.
Treatment should be initiated at a dose of 50 mg 1 time a day.
Panic Disorder, PTSD, and social phobia.
Treatment should be initiated from the application dose of 25 mg per day. After one week the dose can be increased to 50 mg 1 time a day.
This dosing regimen showed that early treatment frequency of side effects characteristic of panic disorder is reduced.
Titration dose.
Depression, OCD, panic disorder, PTSD, and social phobia.
Patients for whom the dose of 50 mg is insufficient, the dose can be increased. The dose should not change the distance interval of 50 mg and receiving at least 1 week to a maximum dose of 200 mg / day. Changes in dose should not carry more than 1 time per week, given the half-life of sertraline for 24 hours. The first signs of clinical effect may occur within 7 days of treatment. With obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) therapeutic effect is even slower.
