Posted by jamestheyonger on December 2, 2005, at 16:46:08
In reply to Blood levels testing for TCAs?, posted by Racer on December 2, 2005, at 14:53:57
"Years ago, when I was on nortiptyline, I was told that the TCAs ALL had therapeutic windows associated with them. That blood tests were done, routinely, to see when you hit that level."
Blood level does not correlate to levels in the nervous system or at least we do not yet know how to correlate them. I have heard of them used to identify rapid/slow metabolizers or in polydrug situations to detect toxic levels. Sometimes the latter is post mortum.
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