Posted by mav27 on March 8, 2009, at 0:38:23
In reply to Re: Nortriptyline = Tachycardia » mav27, posted by Vincent_QC on March 7, 2009, at 15:43:24
> > My doc told me nortriptyline was the easiest in terms of side effects, it still caused me some slight takychardia though and me me more anxious and sort of agitated.
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> My PDoc told me the same thing...He said it was the most easy TCA to use and he use it often on older people because it have less side-effect and no metabolite and it's a more clean TCA...BUT for me I feel the same way that you on it...I already stop the Nortryptiline, I don't want to end up at the hospital for a heart attack...What I Can say is that it's worsing my GAD and make me a lot more agitated and I assume I will never get an proper answer on my SAD problem on a TCA...
>Yeah i'm on imipramine at the moment but a low dose because of the usual tricks the TCA does on the heart. It's not being useful for my SAD but is for my lack of energy which i wasn't able to get with the ssri's or snri or even reboxetine. SO i'm going to ask my doc about staying on the small amount of imipramine and adding a weaker ssri like luvox to it as the ssri's have helped with my SAD but i don't like the side effetcs of them at high dose. I was actually having success on just lexapro but i had no energy to want to get out and do anything and was sleeping around 15 hours a day.
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