Maybe someone here can explain these medications so an ignorant Jarhead like me can understand.
About all I know, and have been able to figure out is that these as well as some other tricyclics out there increase the amount of available serotonin or in some both serotonin and
norepinephrine in the brain. These drugs are given because it is THOUGHT that many suffering depression and PTSD have lower levels of one or both these transmitters in the brain.
My questions are: Cant they test someone suffering with PTSD or depression and see if they have a deficiency of said transmitters? They seem to know that these drugs raise the transmitter levels...so it would stand to reason they have some way of measuring them.
Second: There are so very many different drugs out there to claim to do the same exact thing (raise these transmitter levels), how come one or some can have absolutely NO effect, and another works? I understand everyone is different and that, but isn't there some better scientific reason for this?
About all I know, and have been able to figure out is that these as well as some other tricyclics out there increase the amount of available serotonin or in some both serotonin and
norepinephrine in the brain. These drugs are given because it is THOUGHT that many suffering depression and PTSD have lower levels of one or both these transmitters in the brain.
My questions are: Cant they test someone suffering with PTSD or depression and see if they have a deficiency of said transmitters? They seem to know that these drugs raise the transmitter levels...so it would stand to reason they have some way of measuring them.
Second: There are so very many different drugs out there to claim to do the same exact thing (raise these transmitter levels), how come one or some can have absolutely NO effect, and another works? I understand everyone is different and that, but isn't there some better scientific reason for this?
