Posted by bubblegumchewer on August 8, 2002, at 9:38:58
In reply to Very, very interesting, posted by bubblegumchewer on August 7, 2002, at 18:26:18
While surfing around reading up on this subject, I read that effexor raises blood pressure. I wonder if this drug is useful to those of us with chronic low blood pressure.
I'm always told that my low blood pressure is "good," and I'm sure it is in many ways. However, I just can't hold onto fluid and I get heart arrhymias. Again, I'm told they're not particularly dangerous but not a sign of wonderful heart function, either. (actually, I think they are caused by low blood volume and pressure and the concomitant loss of salts.) This possible correlation between depression/anxiety and low blood pressure is interesting.
Strangely, benzos LOWER blood pressure. I took them around the clock for three months last summer and wound up in the hospital in a disabling depression. Also strangely, the nortriptyline that supposedly yanked me out of the depression also lowers blood pressure.
I'm starting to get an idea of why I CRAVE coffee... it raises my blood pressure just enough that I feel good and not like I need to lie down. But then it dehydrates you and lowers your blood volume and pressure over the long run and here we go again...
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