Posted by linkadge on October 24, 2005, at 17:59:44
In reply to Re: Question for Linkadge » linkadge, posted by MM on October 24, 2005, at 14:28:30
Yeah, its really just a shot in the dark when a doctor prescribes an SSRI.
If you went to the Buspar website a year ago, it would have told you that anxiety was due to excess serotonin (since buspar lowers serotonergic neurotransmission). There's really no conscensious that anxiety is due to low serotonin at all.
Activation of some serotonin receptors are anxiogenic, ie 5-ht2a, 5-ht3, 5-ht2c. Taking an SSRI activates all serotonin receptors, so the net effect is very unpredictable.
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