Posted by TriedEveryMedication on June 24, 2018, at 14:39:30
In reply to Re: Let's talk about combing SSRIs and TCAs » TriedEveryMedication, posted by ed_uk2010 on June 23, 2018, at 3:57:12
> >According to epocrates, this should kill me, either with serotonin syndrome or prolonged heart QT intervals or whatever.
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> Electronic interaction checkers (and some textbooks) often treat all TCAs as if they were the same. You therefore get shown side effects which are not relevant to all medications in the group eg. serotonin syndrome when adding the non-serotonergic desipramine.Thanks, Ed.
so how to know for sure? my doctor relies heavily on epocrates... I guess I could trawl through studies, etc. but some of those papers seem very low quality.
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