Hi,
I haven't heard about the operation causing back aches, but I have
heard that the operation can affect your serotonin levels.
I will have to search for the article, but I read somewhere that when
you have a pfo, all kinds of chemicals and hormones and stuff get
backwashed into your heart through the old blood. So there are a
number of things in that blood that don't get recylcled and cleaned
properly like they should, and serotonin is one of them. That may be
the reason that people with PFO's have lots of migraine auras. Extra
serotonin causes migraine auras, that's why people who take the SSRI
family of drugs, like Prozac and Zoloft can have migraines and
migraine auras.
So anyhow, the theory is that someone with a PFO has extra serotonin
in their bloodstream and then when the PFO is closed, the brain
doesn't get that much serotonin because there is less circulating and
then some mild depression can set it.
It's just a theory, though. And I don't know anything about Plavix
and depression. I will have to hunt for that abstract about the
serotonin.


--- In PFOSupport@yahoogroups.com, "Leigh Anne DelRay"
<delraygoddess@...> wrote:
>
> So I thought I would ask you guys because I can't really find
anything
> else on the web about this. Have any of you experienced post-
operative
> depression? or maybe depression caused by a plavix and aspirin combo?
> I have found a little evidence of the plavix causing depression.
Also,
> I have had terrible backaches since my pfo closure (Nov. 11th 2007)
> and I have never had a backache before ever really. But now they are
> constant? Am I just going crazy?
> thanks you guys, anyone.
> ~LA
>