Posted by yxibow on September 22, 2006, at 19:56:20
In reply to can you get your genes tested for anything yet?, posted by iforgotmypassword on September 22, 2006, at 14:55:54
> I am wondering about this "A1 allele of DRD2 Taq1A polymorphism". I got extremely bad akithisia, jerks, shivers, and even mouth movements from Paxil and company. I still get them sometimes now. I also got noticably better NOT WORSE when I finally dropped it cold-turkey, which I believe indicates a cholinergic mechanism, right?
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> In any case is there anything that can be tested that would steer things in the right direction or at least give me something to keep my eye on until medical discoveries or what not start to magically surface?
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16633151&query_hl=12&itool=pubmed_docsum
Gene testing is very expensive and generally reserved for research unfortunately at this point in time, except for the P450 Amplichip, which is cutting edge technology and not generally covered by insurance.SSRIs, as you experienced, do rarely cause EPS -- this is probably dose related and probably vary by the SSRI used. Zoloft is more often implicated because of its brushover on some dopamine receptors.
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