Posted by Conundrum on June 5, 2011, at 9:36:20
In reply to Re: nortriptyline - dumb as a rock! » Conundrum, posted by SLS on June 4, 2011, at 13:20:52
I think link was only on 5mg amitripytline if i remember correctly.
> > > Wow - nortriptyline is such a dumb drug! I can't remember how to speak, let alone spell!
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> > I don't know how long you have been on it, but some of those effects dissapate with time. I've seen a number of studies indicating that. Look up nortriptyline cognitive side effects in google scholar.
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> "Dumbing" can be an effect of anticholinergic drugs. Imipramine has had the reputation of being a dumb drug, and is due primarily to is anticholinergic properties. I am surprised that nortriptyline would be as much of a problem, especially since Linkadge did not report such with amitriptyline, the more antcholinergic of the two.
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> - Scott
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