Re: Citalopam/Citalopram (semi-offtopic)

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It's an anti-depressant. Use to treat anxiety too. Read the link please:

http://www.info-pharm.com/citalopram/citalopam.html

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> A friend (this is all in the UK), knowing I do medical translations, told

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> she had just been prescribed what she calls a one-off dose of 2 tablets of

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> citalopam [sic] as an anti-aggression tranquiliser.

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> I can only find citalopram in my BNF (admittedly, an edition now 8 years

> old), described as an SSRI antidepressant/anti-panic medication. Have they

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> changed the name, maybe?

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> Does anyone know anything about this? What is it used for nowadays?

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> Many thanks,

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> (this knowledge will also be of professional use, of course!)

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Hello ,

I've had a look on the updated online version of medicines complete.

There is no citalopam in any of the countries they list from around

the world.

There is a big section in the dales part of the site listing

all uses of citalopram including results in research. If you fancy

reading the lot you can get a 15-day free trial at

http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/trials.htm but to cut it short

there is no mention of such a short course. The main uses listed are

depression, panic disorder and in some countries obsessive-compulsive

disorder.

In the research section they mention anxiety disorders including

panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress

disorder, and social anxiety disorder, pathological crying or

laughing, and an an adjuvant in schizophrenia (here they say " in 15

patients with chronic schizophrenia who exhibited signs of impulsive

aggression, adding citalopram to existing antipsychotic therapy

significantly reduced the frequency, but not the average severity, of

aggressive incidents " , which is the only mention of aggression).

Finally equivocal results in sexual dysfunction.

Cheers, Helen

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> A friend (this is all in the UK), knowing I do medical

translations, told me

> she had just been prescribed what she calls a one-off dose of 2

tablets of

> citalopam [sic] as an anti-aggression tranquiliser.

>

> I can only find citalopram in my BNF (admittedly, an edition now 8

years

> old), described as an SSRI antidepressant/anti-panic medication.

Have they

> changed the name, maybe?

>

> Does anyone know anything about this? What is it used for nowadays?

>

> Many thanks,

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> (this knowledge will also be of professional use, of course!)

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, Helen. Yes, I managed to find most of it on the Internet. Citalopam

was probably a typo.

The range of indications is huge, as you say. The same goes for Risperidone

that she's now been put on. I need to read up on what it actually DOES, as

serotonic site blocking is well beyond anything I know so far.

Cheers,

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Hi ,

I only know from discussing with people that Solian had less side effects

and permitted to live more normally/balanced and it is prescribed for severe

depression, not necessarily mental disturbance. It stops periods though.

Of course if she became a translator that would interfere with her

sleep/dream patterns, wouldn't it? The perfect job to make you sleep

deprived!

She'll have to discuss it all with her treating doctor, of course.

Best wishes...

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> Thanks, (and also ; I moderate a Yahoo group myself, and

> discovered 2 messages parked as 'spam' - which they were not - on the site

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> the other day; they'd been there for several days, since I don't visit it

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> often and certainly didn't expect anything to be considered spam, as it's

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> small group and by invitation only).

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> I'll mention Solian to her, and look it up. By now, however, the doctors

> have started thinking she is more depressive than anything else, certainly

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> depressive than psychotic - which is what I thought all along, but then

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> do I know? - so they added an antidepressant, and may take her off

> Risperidone. It is interfering with her sleep/dream patterns, but not

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> hallucinations (and she never had those before, either).

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> Cheers,

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[Guest guest]

In a message dated 12/12/2006 19:39:28 GMT Standard Time,

ama.translation@... writes:

I only know from discussing with people that Solian had less side effects

and permitted to live more normally/balanced and it is prescribed for severe

depression, not necessarily mental disturbance. It stops periods though.

Thanks, will mention it - and yes, of course she'll have to discuss it,

because it's prescription only, right?

Of course if she became a translator that would interfere with her

sleep/dream patterns, wouldn't it? The perfect job to make you sleep

deprived!

LOL.

[Guest guest]

PS.

It stops periods though.

I assume it's reversible - ?

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 12/12/2006 21:04:23 GMT Standard Time,

ama.translation@... writes:

All side

effects must theoretically be reversible once medication is stopped.

I don't believe this is necessarily the case, . For example, risperidal

has some (very rare) neurological side-effects that are thought to be

irreversible.

[Guest guest]

Yes, I would have thought so but a doctor will clarify this. All side

effects must theoretically be reversible once medication is stopped. Would

that not be so?

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