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Old 03-10-2014, 10:13 AM
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I am late coming on to this thread, but the family of TCAs...tricyclic antidepressants, like nortriptyline... have a photosensitivity warning on them. Exposure to sun or tanning beds may cause a skin reaction. If your redness is confined to exposed skin, you might consider sun exposure as a culprit too.
http://www.wellnesspharmacy.net/photosensitivity.pdf
My son had a rash from imipramine which he used for a year for ADHD when he was a child. We had to discontinue it.

It is really not wise to take both Cymbalta AND nortriptyline.
Either one or the other should work. But together that raises the potential of serotonin syndrome. Cymbalta can also affect the liver, and then if that happens the metabolism of other drugs, may be affected.
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