Subject: Re: Diabetes and Paxil
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 19:17:19 -0700
From: Malcolm Graham
BCC: SueTheHuntress
Newsgroups: misc.health.diabetes
I'm still in an information gathering phase, but here are some of the links that I've found thought provoking...
SueTheHuntress wrote:
Mmmmm, this really has me thinking! I have been Type 1 for 41 years, on insulin, of course, and about a year ago, I was told by my doctor that I also have Type 2. I guess my body had become resistant to the insulin that I inject, so now I am also on Glucophage XR, 1000 mg., which seems to help lower the huge amounts of insulin that I was taking.
Around the same time, I started taking Celexa, an anitdepressant. I am going to ask my doctor about this as soon as possible, as I had rather be depressed, than have Type 1 and Type 2 at the same time. In fact, being both types has certainly doubled any depression that I might have had in the first place. Please let me know where you got this information, or sites where your research leads you. Thanks, Sue
Malcolm Graham wrote:
Has anyone in the group come across any evidence that Paxil may be associated
with the onset of Type 2 Diabetes in individuals who are at risk in contracting
Type 2 Diabetes? There seems to be some indications that one of the side-effects
of Paxil is disruption of the endoctine system balance that might just tip the
scales from insulin resistance (sometimes referred to as "borderline diabetes")
to full-blown type 2 diabetes. I'm currently researching whether there is indeed
a connection. I find myself asking: Is there a connection between the increased
use of antidepressants and the increased diagnosis of type 2 diabetes?