Posted by bleauberry on October 17, 2008, at 21:44:06
In reply to Re: Long-Term Users of SSRI's--Need Your Help, posted by NewQuestions on October 16, 2008, at 16:52:03
> 2 of 3 of those meds appear to be re-uptake inhibitors. I feel like re-uptake inhibitors don't work anymore, or otherwise the side effects are too severe. Do you know if they work on different pre-synaptic receptors than the other SSRI's?
Yes, Milnacipran is a reuptake inhibitor. I'm telling you though, it is different. I have no clue how. Must be in the way it manipulates various receptors or how it integrates various neurotransmitter systems or whatever. I just know, that after every ssri and snri on the market, mood stabilizers, benzos, all the mood stabilizers, a couple tcas, everything except maois, milnacipran is different enough from them all to be in a class all its own with no other peers in that class. It has some slight similarities to other reuptake inhibitors, but by slight I mean whatever else it does is a lot stronger. Whether it actually works for someone or not is the same odds as any other med, but I just wanted to say it is "different" than anything you've tried.
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