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What can happen from having high blood levels from taking nortiptyline?
5 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Depends: It depends how high. All the side effects become more likely at the higher level and the risk of the serious ones, such as arrhythmias, also increases.
Answered 10/27/2020
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Heart irregularity: Nortriptyline is a tricyclic antidepressant. Overdose resulting very high blood levels can cause cardiac arrhythmia (irregularity of heartbeat) that can be life threatening.
Answered 2/26/2015
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Several side effects: Most common would be lethargy, difficulty aeakening, myoclonuc tremors or jerking.
Answered 5/24/2017
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