Re: Tricyclics causing brain sx in MEers ( S) [was Prozac]

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>[Tricyclics] tend to make us sick (probably

>because they lower our blood pressure, possibly because some of us have

>encephalitis and it increases the encephalitic symptoms).

Hi,

I just read in the Merck that antidepressants(didn't say what kind)

can cause myopathies, and some myo are called Encephalitic myopathy. This

stuff has me in a pit folks!

Christie

At 06:01 AM 1/11/00 -0500, you wrote:

>From: Judith F Wisdom <judithwisdom@...>

>

>,

>

>In a very recent post you said the followoing:

>

>[Tricyclics] tend to make us sick (probably

>because they lower our blood pressure, possibly because some of us have

>encephalitis and it increases the encephalitic symptoms). Dr. Bell used

>to say that if he wasn't sure whether someone had CFS or depression, he

>gave them tricyclics -- if it made them feel worse, like they had a

>hangover, then he would bet CFS.

>

> Some think that the same thing that makes it difficult for us to drink

>alcohol makes the tricyclics hard on us.

>

>Two questions:

>

>1. I'm currently, with great caution because of the balance disorder I

>suffered when on it last, trying Neurontin, for my dreadful muscle pain.

>As I enter the therapeutic level for me (far lower than before, because,

>we think, I went up so fast that I zoomed past the lowest therapeutic

>dose) I am, as the drug Gods have fashiioned it, of course getting

>unwanted side effect. And one of them is periods, not every day. of

>feeling utterly drunk: word slurring (so embarrassing) and virtually

>weaving (very dangerous). As a result I must (and have) cut back, and

>climb yet more slowly.

>

>However, I'm wondering from what you said above if alcohol, tricyclics,

>and Neurontin might all operate on the same area of the brain and that

>that area (or set of neurotransmitters--me, the great neuoscientist of

>the Western World trying to make some sense of this!), in us, is very,

>very reactive. (In fact, when I was utterly well, it would take very

>little alcohol to get me into some or another type of drunkeness,

>pleasant, then, though it was.)

>

>I don't expect you to answer this, but I'd sure like to know, just out of

>a desire to better understand our brain anomalies.

>

>

>2. Easier, I think. You also mentioned in the above quote

> " encephalitic " symptoms. What symptoms specifically do you mean by that?

> Though I use the term " ME " and assume brain dysfunction, I am not sure

>what sx are specifically " encephalitic. "

>

>Thanks to anyone who can answer.

>

>Judith Wisdom

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