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Joint Pain

Many visitors to this Web Site are having toxic reactions to their medication and are experiencing joint pain. The pains are usually associated with the jaw and or hand joints.

Prescribing additional medication to "mask" the symptom is usually the protocol followed by physicians.

Buspar has been suggested as a possible medication.


Buspar

Warnings

The occurrence of elevated blood pressure in patients receiving both buspirone and a MAO inhibitor has been reported. Therefore, it is recommended that buspirone should not be used concomitantly with a MAO inhibitor.

Since buspirone can bind to central dopaminergic receptors, the possibility of acute and chronic changes in dopamine mediated neurological function (e.g. dystonia, pseudo-parkinsonism, akathisia and tardive dyskinesia) should be considered (see Precautions).

Buspar needs to pass quickly through the liver enzymes. The problem is, antidepressants block these enzymes and you will  and increased amount of the Buspar in your system.


Before using Buspar to treat this condition, read the side effects of Buspar. Click here

Masking the symptom, while creating additional drug induced side effects, should not be the answer.

There are alternatives.

One thing you can do for joint pain associated with toxic levels of antidepressants;

Drink 2 glasses of lemon water daily. Cut a fresh lemon in half. Squeeze the lemon into a full glass of water and drink. Do this twice each day. 

If this is going to work for your joint pain, you will know within 3 days.

Antidepressants are very high in heavy salts. The lemon water removes them. If you are more on the acidic side, don't worry. Lemon, once inside the body actually works in reverse. It turns the body more to the alkaline side. 

Lemon water is one suggestion.


Source Journal Psychiatry Res 1982-83;17(2):181-6

Title The effects of dietary tryptophan on chronic maxillofacial pain and experimental pain tolerance.

Seltzer S, Dewart D, Pollack RL, Jackson E.

This study investigated the effects of daily administration of three grams of tryptophan in
conjunction with a high carbohydrate, low fat, low protein diet on chronic maxillofacial pain,
experimental pain thresholds, and anxiety and depression.
In a double-blind study, 30 chronic pain
patients were randomly assigned to a tryptophan or placebo group. At the initial appointment and 4
weeks later, the patients' subjective ratings of their pain were recorded, electrical tooth pulp stimulation was used to measure pain thresholds, and psychological tests of depression and anxiety were administered.
Over the 4 weeks of the study, there was a greater reduction in reported clinical pain and a greater increase in pain tolerance threshold in the tryptophan group than in the placebo group. The group did not differ in anxiety and depression--for all subjects there was lowered depression and anxiety over the 4 weeks of study.


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