when to use behavioral medications?

[pitbullmamaliz]

It was cool when other people started noticing that Inara had chilled out JUST a bit due to the Prozac. And sometimes if I forget to give her prozac or l-theanine for a day or two (I'm bad, I know), I notice right away on walks that she's more hectic.

I've heard that with Prozac you should start high and then taper to a lower dose if you can. I guess it works better to hit it with a bang? Inara used to be on 40mg/day, now she's on 20mg/day interspersed with 200mg of l-theanine/day.

[megan]

With both foster dogs I've had on Prozac, we started lower and moved up, to make sure they didn't react to it negatively, as per my vet. Hmmm... I wonder.

[maryellen]

my vet had me start lower too and work our way up for 2 of my dogs. i think it really depends on the vet as to whether they start high or low doses

[RealPitBull]

IMO it's always better to start lower then go higher, that is ALWAYS how I've used psych meds, and I've had a bit of experience with Prozac. That being said, a taper OFF is very important.