Posted by King Vultan on September 17, 2004, at 23:56:33
In reply to slow urine flow with Effexor, posted by artemiss on September 17, 2004, at 12:45:12
This is a "pseudo" anticholinergic side effect from Effexor's blockade of norepinephrine reuptake. Men who have difficulties urinating because of this kind of side effect can take an alpha-1 blocker to deal with the problem. My own experience is that these drugs work extremely well in this regard, but for men who actually have enlarged prostates, they can still have problems.
The tricyclic AD nortriptyline has low "true" anticholinergic effects plus a built in alpha-1 blockade that may negate the pseudo ACh effects from its blockade of NE reuptake; this was actually my experience on it, but I do not know if or how things are different for the half of the population without a prostate gland.
Todd
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