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Posted by Jon Rollins on December 15, 2006, at 19:08:59
I am starting tianeptine because I have read so many good things about it and it is supposedly better than the SSRI's. So far so good after two doses...but I was wondering if anyone is taking this medicine along with a second genderation anti-psychotic like risperdal, seroquel, haldol, abilify, etc. I am taking abilify also and I wanted to see if anyone has had any interactions with major tranquilizers or anti psychotics (aka neuroleptics).
Posted by psychobot5000 on December 15, 2006, at 21:40:37
In reply to tianeptine with other drugs, posted by Jon Rollins on December 15, 2006, at 19:08:59
I have taken it at the same time with seroquel and abilify without problems. Hope it works for you!
Posted by blueberry1 on December 16, 2006, at 9:15:16
In reply to tianeptine with other drugs, posted by Jon Rollins on December 15, 2006, at 19:08:59
I think trying to predict how tianeptine would work with other drugs like neuroleptics is a fruitless game and that only a personal trial will tell. So often what appears logical in theory just doesn't work that way, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse.
I did read an abstract at pubmed.com where a treatment resistent patient who had not responded to traditional antidepressants or to tianeptine did respond well to a combination of them. They actually combined tianeptine with another antidepressant. No mention of what the other antidepressant was though. It doesn't make sense that a reuptake inhibitor combined with a reuptake enhancer would work. But it did. I think the mechanisms of all these drugs on other systems besides just the monoamines is very complicated, and may sometimes be more important than what they actually do to serotonin.
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