Posted by OldSchool on March 20, 2002, at 17:51:30
I HATE TCAS!!! I have moderate high blood pressure problems, which was set off from taking some Pamelor over a year ago. I recently tried taking some old Pamelors I still had at bedtime for mild insomnia and DAMN has it fucked my BP all up again!!! Those little 25 mg Pamelor tabs just make me feel so fucked up cardiovascular wise. They spike my pulse real bad and along with that my blood pressure. I guess its the anti-cholinergic side effects...I dont know what it is for sure.
I took all the rest of my Pamelors I had and chucked those suckers in the trash. I have decided I am NEVER again taking another tricyclic antidepressant, cause everytime I do, except for the first time I took them, I have cardio problems. I am forever sticking with modern class antidepressants...SSRIs, Wellbutrin, Serzone, Remeron, stuff like that. Im DONE with old dirty drugs.
I am also very very skeptical about this claim that tricyclics are better than plain old SSRIs for severe depression. I took Pamelor once for two months successfully, no cardo problems. It did elevate my resting heart rate which my Pdoc says was the anti-cholinergic side effects. I found that Pamelor had no better antidepressant effect than plain old Effexor, or Wellbutrin, or Zoloft or Paxil...or any other modern class AD. SSRIs give a more activating "real world" antidepressant effect for me. Just feels like normal. TCAs makes me feel like Im sedated off my ass all the time, but with cardio probs. TCAs have a lot more side effects....sedation, weight gain, cardio symptoms like a elevate resting heart rate, "brain fog." I dont believe this crap that TCAs are superior to SSRIs...I think its the other way around.
Add TCAs to the list of drugs I hate, along with anti-psychotics.
God I am so disgusted feeling, when my BP spikes I feel like total crud.
Old School
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