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View Post: Obstructive Sleep Apnea
12 Nov 2009 by Apnea  
If you are suffering from OSA, consult your doctor about the best way to treat this sleep disorder. Some antidepressants such as Prozac and Protriptyline were used to treat obstructive sleep apnea. However, these medications only have ...
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View Post: Obstructive Sleep Apnea
10 Nov 2009 by blogmagic  
Some antidepressants such as Prozac and protriptyline have been used to treat obstructiveSleep apnea. However, these drugs are too weak to cure obstructive sleep apnea. They could improve the disturbance by increasing the tone of the ...
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View Post: treatments for narcolepsy
3 Aug 2009 by Sharing Knowledge and Wisdom  
two classes of antidepressant drugs have proved effective in controlling cataplexy in many patients: tricyclics (including imipramine, desipramine, clomipramine, and protriptyline) and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (including ...
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View Post: USPharmacist.com > Sleep Apnea: Patient Information
20 Jul 2006
Antidepressant medications, such as protriptyline and fluoxetine, have shown only minimal promise in patients with obstructive sleep apnea. In theory, these products reduce the frequency of apneas and increase oxygen saturation.3,10 ...
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View Post: week 10 to sleep, or not to sleep
18 Nov 2004 by Mike Staylor  
it increases upper airway neuromuscular activity and decreases rem sleep. however, protriptyline is not considered primary therapy for osa. i have also read where provigil i used for treatment of fatigue related to sleep apnea without ...
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View Post: pickwickian syndrome
20 Oct 2008 by Aspilac  
continuous positive airway pressure (cpap), the mainstay of therapy for obesity hypoventilation syndrome and obstructive sleep apnea, promotes eucapnia and reduces daytime drowsiness. in patients who do not respond to or tolerate cpap, ...
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View Post: sleep apnea
8 Apr 2008
protriptyline. this antidepressant (brand names triptil, vivactil) can increase tension in throat tissues and help keep them from sagging when you sleep. it also reduces the amount of rapid-eye movement (rem) sleep—the stage when most ...
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View Post: sleepdoctor: Pills don't cure Obstructive Sleep Apnea
3 May 2008 by Michael Rack, MD  
Various sertonergic and serotenergic/noradrenergic antidepressants, including Prozac and protriptyline, have been used to treat OSA. These medications have a mild effect on osa. They slightly improve osa by increasing upper airway tone and also possibly by ... The reason is that I get much information from this article about the sleep apnea that is very much useful for me. And now I suggest to my colleague to go through from this article. For the more information visit on ...
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View Post: Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome: Treatment & Medication ...
31 Dec 2005
The AASM recently published a practice parameter and review of the medical therapies of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS).74,108 Use of protriptyline for OSAHS was listed as a guideline (patient care strategy based on ...
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