Posted by ed_uk on June 24, 2005, at 10:26:25
In reply to Dry mouth.... Stablon (tianeptine) side-effect?, posted by sukarno on June 24, 2005, at 5:16:10
Hi Paul!
Apparantly, 20% of patients treated with tianeptine get a dry mouth. I expect the true figure is higher though because this study seems to underestimate side effects! Only 17% got drowsy on amitriptyline - I think not LOL!
The incidence of dry mouth (38 vs 20%), constipation (19 vs 15%), dizziness/syncope (23 vs 13%), drowsiness (17 vs 10%) and postural hypotension (8 vs 3%) are greater with amitriptyline than with tianeptine. Insomnia and nightmares occur in more tianeptine than amitriptyline recipients (20 vs 7%).
>thirst, sometimes intense.......
>Is this something I should be concerned about?Probably not ...but I think it would be worth seeing your doctor and getting a few tests done eg. blood glucose for diabetes etc.
>I also have been steadily raising my Pepcid (famotidine) dose to quite a high level.
Dry mouth is listed as a side effect of Pepcid but I don't think it's common.
> I'm on 20mg 6 to 8 times a day since I'm developing a tolerance to it and the acid was coming back (I have GERD).
I hope the high dose is helping :-) Perhaps you should see a gastro-enterologist. Have you tried a proton pump inhibitor eg. lansoprazole? They can be more effective than H2 antagonists for some people.
Kind regards
~Ed
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