Posted by steve12 on September 28, 2004, at 15:06:45
In reply to Re: Cymbalta honeymoon is over » steve12, posted by alesta on September 16, 2004, at 12:14:42
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> so you're saying that the main neurotransmitters involved with anxiety are serotonin and norepinephrine? you are discounting lots of current research on the importance of dopamine and gaba.
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> and concerning norepinephrine's role in anxiety, i have compared the success rate of effexor and the success rate of prozac (an SSRI) for anxiety, and it was *exactly that same*. if norepinephrine played a significant role then you would expect the success rate to increase with effexor. but i admittedly am still unsure about norepinephrine...
>But that data is all from the drug companies, right? Can you trust that? Plus, if NE leads to anxiety, anxiety would be *higher* with Effexor, which many clinicans report is, in fact, the case.
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