Posted by Leighwit on April 6, 2000, at 12:04:38
In reply to Celexa and blood sugar, posted by Ann on April 1, 2000, at 6:58:22
I think Celexa does have an affect on blood sugar but I hesitate yet to qualify it. I'm a Type I diabetic and have taken every SSRI. I now take Wellbutrin, Celexa, and Aricept. I only added the Celexa a week ago. My blood sugars are swinging a bit, but to what extent I won't know without more data over a longer period of time.
Most SSRI's, in my experience come with a need to adjust my insulin dosages either up or down. Paxil for example, required a 30% increase in insulin and resulted in unacceptable weight gain, so I discontinued it (didn't have much efficacy for me either.)
I'm already getting some benefit from the addition of Celexa (which I've taken in the past but combined with something else) so if I can figure out how to stabilize blood sugars, it will be worth the effort.
It is always difficult to measure the effect of depression symptoms of diabetes itself. Not in terms of behavior (boy -- do people love to focus on behavior when it comes to diabetes management or what?!?!) but in terms of actual biological change(s).
It's now known that 33-50% of people with Type I diabetes develop recurrent major clinical depression.
There's only scant funding to research the connection, unfortunately.
I don't know how any of this affects non-diabetics, hypoglycemics, or people with predispositions to either one of the two types of diabetes.
I do know, however, that people with hypoglycemic episodes should not take SAMe.
Laurie (Leighwit)
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