Posted by Dr Undies on April 14, 2001, at 12:21:00
In reply to Withdrawing from Chronic Administration of Nardil , posted by Dr Undies on April 11, 2001, at 9:35:02
Thank you all who responded to my posting.
Your suggestions reflections and encouragement are appreciated and considered. To any person who is commencing Nardil therapy may I pass on a few words. Nardil is a very powerful and effective medication and is used usually as a last resort drug when most other newer and more SELECTIVE SSRI type medications fail to give relief.
As it is NOT selective for the re-uptake of Serotonin (5-HydroxyTryptamine), it is acts kind of like a 'scatter bomb' and eventually hits the correct target but takes innocents with it.
Hence the many undesirable side-effects not to mention the restrictive diet that must be adhered to. Both personal experience and as a neuroscientist, suggests to me that perhaps these modern selective uptake inhibitor type medications are barking up the wrong pathological tree. Perhaps Serotonin is NOT the only neurotransmitter implicated in clinical depression.
My belief is that a master molecule higher up the metabolic pathway will one day prove to be significantly involved along with the genetic expression of enzymatic and other metabolic pathways. Meanwhile, the jury is still out.
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