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Posted by Charlotte Sometimes on November 2, 2003, at 5:05:58
I wanted to share this and see what other people think.
I'm trying to discover why I'm suddenly getting better. I was getting severe panic attacks but the last couple of months, each month, I've been heaps better!
I was on avanza (remeron, mirtazapine) the last year and my dose was decreased from 60 to 45mg just before the panic attacks decreased in quantity and severity. So that could be one reason. Maybe I just needed to find MY dosage?
I also have polycystic ovary syndrome and took a special birth control pill to even out my hormones. The gyno said it would take 3 months to kick in amd 3 months later my panic attacks begin to lessen.
And the last theory was that I had accumulated too much serotonin in my brain from taking zoloft for 5 years causing the panic attacks and 10 months on my brain has restored it's normal serotonin levels hence no attacks.
I wonder what it could be? I'm frightened of getting off my birth control pill in case they start up again and am also similarly worried about getting off the avanza, which I'm going to have to soon, as my concentration has become so bad that I cry when people talk to me because it's too painful to pay attention!
Posted by stjames on November 2, 2003, at 12:53:16
In reply to Panic Attacks suddenly Ceasing!, posted by Charlotte Sometimes on November 2, 2003, at 5:05:58
And the last theory was that I had accumulated too much serotonin in my brain from taking zoloft for 5 years causing the panic attacks and 10 months on my brain has restored it's normal serotonin levels hence no attacks.
You do not accumulate serotonin but your other
ideas do make a lot on sense.
Posted by Charlotte Sometimes on November 2, 2003, at 21:52:22
In reply to Re: Panic Attacks suddenly Ceasing!, posted by stjames on November 2, 2003, at 12:53:16
> And the last theory was that I had accumulated too much serotonin in my brain from taking zoloft for 5 years causing the panic attacks and 10 months on my brain has restored it's normal serotonin levels hence no attacks.
>
> You do not accumulate serotonin but your other
> ideas do make a lot on sense.
>
I thought that might be the case! I was reading a monash university (Australia) study that said a pilot study they did showed people with panic disorder had elevated levels of serotonin in the brain and when at rest released adrenalin from the cardiac nerves of the heart.
So I thought taking the zoloft may have just aggravated an already high level of serotonin?!
Posted by stjames on November 2, 2003, at 23:33:25
In reply to Re: Panic Attacks suddenly Ceasing! , posted by Charlotte Sometimes on November 2, 2003, at 21:52:22
> >
> > You do not accumulate serotonin but your other
> > ideas do make a lot on sense.
> >
> I thought that might be the case! I was reading a monash university (Australia) study that said a pilot study they did showed people with panic disorder had elevated levels of serotonin in the brain and when at rest released adrenalin from the cardiac nerves of the heart.
> So I thought taking the zoloft may have just aggravated an already high level of serotonin?!
>We really have very little infomation on what a normal level is or how X level translates to whatever illness. Blood levels are not meanful,
generally levels speak of CSF, spinal fluid.
However, all the meds work at a much smaller site
so CSF levels don't measure what is happening at the clef.In any case, while levels (I prefer regulation)
do have something to do with mental illness, these changes are in the middle of the process that is mental illness. Since we know AD's correct or change NT levels at the clef but only control
mental illness in less than half the people treated, clearly AD's don't hit at the cause of mental illness. If they did they would work for most everybody.To put it another way, mental illness, endrocrine
disfuntion, and others (present with most mentally ill) are all symptoms of a greater, root disorder
which causes everything else.
Posted by crazychickuk on November 4, 2003, at 6:57:09
In reply to Panic Attacks suddenly Ceasing!, posted by Charlotte Sometimes on November 2, 2003, at 5:05:58
WOW i have poly cystic ovarys too, i am a little overweight, i to am on mirtazipam 30mg at the moment, my gyni wanted to put me on birthcontrol to even out my periods but i am to scared too,
I suffer from panick attacks and contsnat anxiety..
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