Antidepressants and thyroid

[Guest guest]

Happy New Year again, everybody. Thanks , I'm looking for my last

lab tests and post them along with the dosage I'm taking right now.

Fact: I'm sick and tired of fighting again my panic attacks. I'll give

a go to antidepressants, although I do not intend to take them forever.

Question: do any of you know if they can interphere with my thyroid

condition/ thyroid medications? Of course I've asked my doctor and he

said no, but you know I trust you guys more than any doc. Has any of

you an experience to share?

Gratefully yours and sitll with stones in her kidneys

Carla

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Some of the SSRIs (Prozac, Lexapro, Paxil, Celexa) have been found by SOME

sources to block the thyroid hormones, Prozac in particular. I found only

one source that said this, out-and-out. I know that I didn't keep that

article, and I've had trouble locating anything on it since, so I really

don't have a study in-hand to present to you as proof. Some people on other

sites have talked about this, but the info is very sketchy. I preferred the

old TCAs (tricyclic antidepressants) for my particular situation because it

increases norepinephrine, which is an adrenal hormone made in the " other "

part of the adrenal, but I found that I had to stop taking it because it

helped run my blood pressure up. I wouldn't have had that issue when I was

younger, but I do now. So many of these things have a tendency to do that,

when you already may have a problem there. If you have no blood pressure

issues, I think that the best antidepressant for us as thyroid patients is

probably the Wellbutrin because it increases all three of the major neural

substances in the brain (dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine), without the

weight gain issues. I got along pretty well on that, as long as I didn't

take the second 12 hr dose because, if I did, it kept me awake at a time

when I should have been sleeping. It does NOT induce sleep, believe me.

Tx

Antidepressants and thyroid

> Happy New Year again, everybody. Thanks , I'm looking for my last

> lab tests and post them along with the dosage I'm taking right now.

> Fact: I'm sick and tired of fighting again my panic attacks. I'll give

> a go to antidepressants, although I do not intend to take them forever.

> Question: do any of you know if they can interphere with my thyroid

> condition/ thyroid medications? Of course I've asked my doctor and he

> said no, but you know I trust you guys more than any doc. Has any of

> you an experience to share?

> Gratefully yours and sitll with stones in her kidneys

> Carla

[Guest guest]

Imipramine, or one of the other old TCAs were always great for panic attacks, but, as you said, they have to build up in the brain over a few wks, so, in the meantime, some of the minor tranquilizers are good on a temporary basis. What you're saying about keeping close contact with the doctor on this is always best. This isn't always something that you handle by yourself. In fact, this is one of the problems with panic attacks---people sometimes isolate themselves on acct of this, and this is the worst thing we can do. I had severe ones in the past, and it was the thyroid helping do this, plus a very badly abusive marriage relationship, etc....This is where I was introduced to the workings of the psychiatric world and all it's treatments.

Tx

Re: Antidepressants and thyroid

If they are true panic attacks, do not try natural methods unless you have no where to be and no one to see. Seriously. True panic attacks feel like a heart attack and they do not go away easy. Both me and my husband have been hospitalized for them numerous times - then we both learned what they were and have been managing them with medication ever since. I tried natural methods - I am very open to natural methods however I do not have the time and energy for them to work before I go over the edge. Natural methods work synergistically with your body to heal over time. When your in the middle of a full blown panic attack at work or driving or something similar you do not have the wait and see option unless you have no problem calling 911. Personally? I prefer to be able to manage my health and not have to call in reinforcements when I can help myself just as easy.

Don't work yourself up if you take a medication telling yourself that oh no this is a chemical drug.... I'm gonna get a bad reaction. Just take it and don't dwell. Unless you have an allergy to the binder used in the pill chances are you will just notice a few hours later and say.. wow, I'm not panicked anymore. That's pretty neat! And you know what? You have a minor reaction to a binder? You stop taking it and get back into to see your doctor asap.

I am allergic to everything under the sun but unless you want to be a victim you have to learn to not dwell and learn to treat yourself and take care of yourself.

Don't mean to be peachy but I feel very strongly about this.

And St johns wort is for depression, not anxiety which is what causes panic attacks.

Hannah Pasisz