Posted by bleauberry on July 26, 2009, at 19:01:40
In reply to Re: Nortriptyline Bust, posted by SLS on July 26, 2009, at 6:09:28
> > Not cool. Hanging on by threads.
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> Is there any possibility that using such a low dosage of nortriptyline is producing paradoxical effects such that they would be reversed upon reaching standard therapeutic dosages?
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> I imagine you will be too scared to try raising the dosage at this point, and I would hate to recommend something that is going to make you feel worse. Which other drugs have produced this same syndrome?
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> - ScottDeeply increased depression is not a side effect, as I see it. The dry mouth, lack of appetite, those are side effects. Deeply increased depression tells me wrong drug wrong person.
Picture a bone thin significantly underweight person at 132 pounds 6 feet tall. Now picture them 6 weeks later at 122 pounds.
Since the weight loss has been so severe in an already frail skinny patient, we'll never know the outcome of what might have happened at higher doses, except that the patient might have died from anorexic conditions trying to find out, if suicide didn't do it first.
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