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- February 23, 2019 at 5:45 pm
I was taking Paxil and discontinued taking it around the time the pimple/mole was developed on my head. IN the Spring I decided to discontinue taking my Paxil medication because I felt I could handle the stress on my own. I was instructed to cut my dose in half for the first week and then discontinue totally the next week. I started feeling what I call "electrical shortages" so I actually took 3 weeks to get off of it insead. I read that coming off that medication could cause those symptoms on their website, so I didnt think anything of it. I developed that mole/pimple in July/August. I seen my dermatologist in October because the mole began to change and turn black and was diagnosed with melanoma. I had two surgeries to have it all removed. I was recently told that I have the BRAF 600 mutation and that interferes with the way my DNA is copied. I dont really understand the process but from what I read it sounds like these anit-depressant medications interfere with your serotonin level and some how affect the way your body copies its DNA. I am wondering if that has anything to do with the A and T nucleotides not being transcribed properly in our gene mutation. Any thoughts?
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- February 23, 2019 at 5:56 pm
I have been living in and reading research in melanoma world since 2003. No definitive correlation has been found between melanoma and meds you describe. BRAF status is confusing however. Here is a post that may help understand what all that gobble-de-gook means:
Hope that helps. I wish you my best. celeste
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- February 24, 2019 at 11:46 pm
Hi. I found your post interesting. I searched and found this paper and it says there isn’t any connection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036812/
I hope this helps.
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