Something wot I have learnt today

[aardvarkoffnord]

Citalopram (the antidepressant I am on) is a racemic mixture of two stereoisomers (this bit I knew). The new bit is that one of the isomers is thought to be responsible for some of the side effects. However, one of the drug companies has started producing a version with just the S-version, called "Escitalopram".

I've just been put on that new one.

Comments

[ammos]

Cool hope it works for you. Side effects are never good. Also I've now learnt a new thing for the day. I knew both existed due to working in the pharmacy but never what the differences were.

[kt_peasant]

My first thought was 'ooo, will polarised light rotate when it passes through the tablets?'. I suspect my brain is in freefall.

On a tangent - I was sorry not to find you at Maelstrom. I ran around lots, but presumably in different bits of the swamp to you :(

[aardvarkoffnord]

*laugh* That would be a mean trick.

Alas, I was ill for the game, and spent most of it asleep in my tent. I missed a lot of people I wanted to see.

[forest_rose]

Weird synchronicity! I, too, have just found out about that, and plan to ask my psychiatrist about it when I see him.

[aardvarkoffnord]

I am a synchronicity magnet.

The other weird thing is my GP told me to my Citalopram in the evening. My psychiatrist has told me to take it in the morning, and thinks this is why my sleep has been so disturbed while I've been on it.