Reged: 07/09/05
Posts: 987
Loc: Lake Linden, Mich in the U.P. IBS-C
Sand, You are correct on 1) through 4), but nowadays it's also used to treat plain old ordinary anxiety, and for IBS, the SSRI's are used to get the serotonin levels up in the colon. AD's also vary quite a bit in strength, Prozac is the strong- est. In fact, the FDA was considering yanking it because of the no. of incidents of people going nutso on it. Valium is pretty strong too, and it also causes C bigtime, others like it, Librium, etc. do the same thing. -Bob