Thanks for all the info !

YEah, I know... It's like when my Celecoxib helped with pain but was going to induce me a cardiac attack... Hell...

Mari, that thing about Calcium and depression sounds VERY interesting...

i cannot find it. i ran into it ages ago quite by accident. it has something to do with interfering with osteoblasts more or less than osteoclasts and they get out of balance.

i can't remember if it was even online. maybe it was in some of the stuff i got from my pdoc. (i asked him if he had any medical-stuff he didn't want that he could give me rather than recycle it.) there was a book on women's mental health that discussed all kinds of things related to drugs too, right down to the bone (haha NO pun intended, i don't know if it was in there... if i can find that i'll check.)

oh here. well this isn't it, and it doesn't say much, but at least you know which tree i'm barking up:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Depression/6040

i'm ok with using an SSRI, i just think staying on one all the time is a bad idea even if it does work. especially with my poor vitamin D status.

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Okay is cymbalta, the same way with osteoprosis. Or things like this.

Donna

Dear Donna

Cymbalta, Effexor and Pristiq are SNRIs (Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors). (for Mari: Wellbutrin a little different affecting the dopamine/norepinephrine system).

so, while the studies i've read have all talked about SSRIs i'd think there would be some theoretical concern with Cymbalta and the other two as well, because they all inhibit serotonin reuptake. i don't know to what degree as compared to SSRIs... and if different receptor subtypes are affected... it is possible that there is inferior or no risk with these drugs.

a long way to say, maybe.

i'll see if i can turn up anything specific for you Donna.



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from Psychiatric Times

Bone Mass Density Loss and Antidepressants...
By James M. Ellison, MD, MPH
October 1, 2008

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/disp.../10168/1336555

also - this explains it in a more similar fashion to what i originally read.

CHANGING THE PICTURE IN DEPRESSION... (MS Word document)
Sinan Duzyurek, MD
July 18, 2009

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sounds like a good plan! hOpe you feel much better very soon.
I am sorry that you are feeling rotten.
(((((HUGS))))
bizi

thanks bizi! welcome back!!!

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Even though im young i know that medication may feel like it can help but all it does is numb the mind. Save your family greef , & try something to substiute it ? May i suggest fish oil , it did wonders for my mother who had chronic spine pain & cogested heart failure . I wish nothing but luck ,
Kitty .

Thank you Kitty!

welcome to Neurotalk!

actually i was going to try 5-HTP but i am pretty broke as far as buying anything at all. as it happens i already have a lot of Zoloft left over from before. and it has typically worked for me in that past. i don't have side effects from it at moderate doses.

i am sorry if you have had bad experiences with meds. some folks have a very difficult relationship with meds/finding something that works.

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Oh oh oh !! Ive always wanted to try 5-HTP, but they dont sell it here alone, or I dont know where !!

Kitty, welcome !! And sorry for contradicting you, maybe Im the exception... but Fish did NOTHING for me...

Hugs for everyone !