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Re: SSRI's and possible heart damage?!

Posted by psychobot5000 on April 25, 2007, at 0:06:55

In reply to Re: SSRI's and possible heart damage?!, posted by linkadge on April 24, 2007, at 16:14:40

I believe there has been study of cardiac patients taking SSRIs--the hope being that they'd be good for heart patients. If I remember right, the results from these studies showed neither a benefit, nor evidence of additional damage.

Hopefully, the potential damage from an excess serotonin supply simply is much weaker than having direct agonism at the receptors (as already suggested). But perhaps there are other--for example, anxiolytic--benefits that might counterbalance whatever heart damage occurs from serotonergic meds.

Or perhaps taking tianeptine (to counterbalance the increased serotonin) might reduce the serotonin supply, without blocking antidepressant benefits.


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