Posted by Ritch on August 17, 2002, at 21:37:15
In reply to Re: devoid of virtually all side effects » Anyuser, posted by Phil on August 17, 2002, at 18:10:58
> Devoid, hmm.
>
> On the other side of my long post, the first AD I was on was Amitriptyline. I was on it 5 years and it's about as dirty a drug as you can get.
> Since then, I've never taken an AD or combo that came close to the effectiveness of Amitrip.
> Some of that dirty stuff must help but it can get unpleasant.
> Could it be they are introducing Lexapro knowing it's crap? I guess as Anyuser said, we'll know soon enough.
Amitriptyline and other TCA's *are* dirty. I have tried (re)taking them recently and they are harder to tolerate overall than all the new stuff that everybody is willing to trash. Lexapro isn't going to be crap. It is going to be helpful just like other AD's can be helpful. It theoretically can't be any worse than Celexa (which isn't that bad). I just posted the R and S isomer double-blind trial because that would be an ultimate acid-test of their claims, that's all. At WORST, it could turn out that Lexapro is no better than Celexa, but you would still only have to ingest half the medication-so your body wouldn't have to eliminate an unnecessary portion of the medication. Being on polypharmacy for years, I don't see that "worst-case" scenario as being something that would prevent me from giving it a fair trial.Mitch
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