Antidepressants and Panic Attacks

Nowadays pharmaceutical market offers a wide choice of antidepressants. The most widely spread are the following: Celexa, Lexapro, Paxil or Seroxat, Prozac, Luvox, and Zoloft. The producers of medicines for depression state  that the roots of shattered nerves, anxious feeling, panic attacks, and other mental  disorders arise from disbalance in chemical level  in the brain.

The question is that if it the main cause of such mental disorders is the chemical imbalance, would it be possible to improve this condition with the help of antidepressants?  There are a lot of people suffer from depression and panic attacks and have been taken antidepressants for several years without the improvement of their mental state.

Unfortunately antidepressants are not effective as our body builds dependence on antidepressants after some period of treatment.. Furthermore, antidepressants cause adverse symptoms if a patient stops taking them.

Such medications as Ativan, Centrax, Dalmane, Klonopin, Halcion, Librium, Paxipram, Restoril, Serax, Tranxene, Valium, and Xanax are very  ddictive and your body will get used to it in some period of time. Speaking about the tolerance of your body on the medicine it means that taking it every day your body will becoming more and more resistant to the regular dosage, so over time you will need to increase the dose to get the desirable effect of the antidepressant. That in turn will cause the arising of negative symptoms and the patient will be dependant on the medicine.

Besides,  the cost of the majority of antidepressants is very high. So if to calculate the sum of money that people spend on buying them it will turn out to be really expensive treatment. Many people buy meds via internet in Canadian online pharmacies.

People who suffer from panic attacks should try to find more effective and better way of struggling with this disorder without any medications in order to get better results from treatment.

Antidepressants And Weight Gain

One of the most unpleasant side effects when taking antidepressants is weight gain. No matter how long you are taking antidepressants, it can cause gaining the weight.

Weight gain is a side effect that arises during taking the majority of antidepressants. Weight gain arises during both urgent and long-term antidepressant treatment with. Medical professionals, however, don’t known for sure why medicines for depression cause weight gain.

Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) influence the metabolism making it more slow and may promote carbohydrate cravings. Because antidepressants of tertiary tricyclic class such as amitriptyline, imipramine, and doxepin are stronger histamine blockers than are secondary tricyclics such as desipramine and nortriptyline, the former can cause weight gain.

The effect of Mirtazapine (Remeron) lies between SSRIs and the TCAs concerning the risk for weight gain. Weight gain is one of the main adverse reactions of this medication.  This happens because of the blockade of histamine H1 and serotonin 2C receptors. This medication may cause gaining the weight even during the first month of treatment.

In contrast to tricyclic antidepressants, selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) cause less weight gain. Gaining weight is unlikely when taking SSRIs during the period of 6 months or less. The effect of SSRIs-of weight gaining is connected with changes in serotonin 2C receptor activity, increase in appetite, carbohydrate craving, or recovery from clinical depression. Paroxetine (Paxil) is more likely to cause weight gain than the other SSRIs.

Venlafaxine (Effexor) practically doesn’t cause gaining the weight.

Bupropion (Wellbutrin) is the antidepressant that can lead to weight loss. It has a similar chemical structure with diethylpropion (Tenuate), which is an appetite suppressant.  The researches have shown that bupropion SR causes weight loss of 10.1% withing the period of 24 weeks and keep weight loss stable within 48 weeks.