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Re: Desipramine blood levels

Posted by zeugma on April 20, 2005, at 19:57:47

In reply to Re: Desipramine blood levels, posted by med_empowered on April 20, 2005, at 19:45:38

> hey! When I asked an old shrink about the blood-level tests for TCAs, she said she only did them on old and/or impaired people, or people on "tricky" drug combos, and then the tests were really just to screen for potential toxicity...the tests, it seems, aren't as good as say, lithium blood-tests, in determining adequate dosage.>>

hmm that's odd, years ago when hospitalized I had blood levels drawn every week to determine my nortriptyline blood levels. Two years ago I had another blood level done on nortrip. Nortriptyline is the TCA most noted for its therapeutic range (really a window).

Desipramine's "official" therapeutic range begins at 116 nanograms/mL.


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