Posted by yxibow on December 19, 2008, at 1:28:11
In reply to Re: abilify-- seems to be a popular topic right now, posted by greywolf on December 16, 2008, at 4:30:41
> Xanax seems to work better on the physical symptoms of my anxiety (feelings of nervousness, sick to stomach, jitteriness) while Luvox seems oriented more to my mental anguish. I don't know whether it does this by quashing affect overall or by some other mechanism.
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> GreywolfWell as for the stomach effects of anxiety, a surprising majority of the body's serotonin receptors are not in the brain, but are in the gut.
Hence, why the chemotherapy (and I think for post operative emesis as well) 5HT3 antagonists work on that region. They're extremely expensive though.
Ginger does have some mild 5HT3 antagonism, at least from some studies.
When one is easing into some SSRIs, 5HT3 agonism may occur as an accidental product of how "clean" the agent may be and the individual, hence nausea in changing doses.
-- Jay
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