Antidepressants and AF - NOT prozac or other 'flouridated drug'

[Guest guest]

I've seen some talk about antidepressants and AF. Is this solely

a concern with Prozac, which contains fluoride, or is it a concern

with all antidepressants, because of some effect on the pituitary or

hypothalamus (or other things)? I'm on bupropion and low-dose

lorazepam, which don't contain fluorine, although they do contain a

chlorine atom or two. I've been on AD's for 10 years, the only

fluorine-containing one being Celexa. Now that I'm weaning off IC,

should I be wary of increasing AD dosage?

I was rather shocked when I saw that on Wikipedia ( " Why the hell

is *flourine* doing in there?? " ), but it does explain it's name of

flu-oxetine nicely It's amazing how many psychotropic things have

fluorine in them. I wonder if it has a functional property, or is

just *there* because of some step in the synthesis and the fact that

F-C bonds are apparently quite stable from what I've read - which is

why they're used everywhere..

Jim