Posted by med_empowered on November 22, 2006, at 0:05:22
In reply to Re: SSRI EPS » Phillipa, posted by Quintal on November 21, 2006, at 23:15:57
the whole eps from antidepressant thing is interesting in part b/c its been noted since the days of the tricyclics...alot of the problems that were "discovered" after ssri use (a discontinuation syndrome, eps/td, drug-induced mania/psychosis, apathy, etc.) were noted years and years ago with TCA use. I guess the assumption was that these new, perfect drugs wouldn't cause the same problems as old, "dirty" drugs?
Anyway...I've read of cases of prozac induced TD and celexa induced TD and effexor induced movement problems (which makes sense, since docs can ramp up the dosage to crazy levels). I wasnt able to find anything about 1 ssri doing it more often than other...I would imagine that it would be kind of like TD with old neuroleptics: the agent used is less important than the dosage, amount of time used, and patient characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity, other meds, etc.)
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