Wow, Violet, that was very helpful, thanks so much, and it makes a lot of sense too really. My therapist was wanting me to figure out if there was a reason that depression would have started after the surgery, and continued on even though the effects of anesthesia and all that were out of my system. Anyway, have you or anyone started an anti-depressant after your closures? I find it weird that I have been on anti-depressants to help my migraines this whole time and now that I have had improvement with my migraines, I feel depressed and feel like I need anti-dpressants for another reason. Thanks so much for anyone who has had experiences similar to this , anything can help. Thanks again.
Leigh Anne
----- Original Message ---- From: Violet Flame <violetflame11@...> To: PFOSupport@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 11:47:30 AM Subject: [PFOSupport] Re: PFO Closure & Depression
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@yahoogro ups.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 >
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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...
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...
Wow, Violet, that was very helpful, thanks so much, and it makes a lot of sense too really. My therapist was wanting me to figure out if there was a reason...
Give me a day to hunt down that medical abstract. It takes your body 3-8 months to re-adjust your body and brain chemistry. Hang in there. Too much serotonin...
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