What Doctors Don't Tell YouCombinations of new style antidepressants can result in a toxic reaction known as serotonin syndrome, doctors have observed.
Cases have already been reported when a patient has been given the antidepresant venlafaxine with the drug phenelzine.
Now doctors from Denmark have reported a similar reaction when venlafaxine has been taken with isocarboxazide. A patient was rushed to the emergency ward after combining the two drugs; he was agitated and he was suffering from visual hallucinations. The last of the symptoms stopped only six days after treatment (The Lancet, November 11, 1995).
Daniel Redwood DC
Tom Ferguson MD
