Posted by KaraS on November 4, 2004, at 2:19:56
In reply to Re: Saw pdoc - didn't go as I had hoped - scared » KaraS, posted by Sad Panda on November 4, 2004, at 1:26:36
> > Why do you think it is that we don't hear more or talk more about Anafranil on this board if it is such an effective AD? Also, how would you compare it to maprotiline? (I have been considering trying maprotiline but am a bit worried about weight gain.)
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> Hi Kara,
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> It's an Anglo-Saxon thing. The French started using Clomipramine(Anafranil) in 1966 for OCD & Depression, but it didn't arrive in America or Australia until the '80's. I think it was rejected because it was viewed as a copy cat drug & therefore didn't have any advantages over Imipramine or Amitriptyline. What's good about the TCA's is that they are all so different to each other, while the SSRI's are the same as each other.
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> I don't know too much about Maprotiline. I can't get it here, so I haven't investigated it much. What I have read about it is it doesn't have any advantages over TCA's, but it is more likely to produce convulsions.
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> Cheers,
> Paul.
>Always politics!
I think that MAP's extra tendency to produce seizures is fairly small - more in line with Wellbutrin. I'm more concerned with the weight gain issue.
Thanks,
K
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