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They pumped me full of dopamine the ER after my heart attack to bring up my BP. I was on it for about 3 days and they slowly weaned me off of it.
Role of dopamine in congestive heart failure: a contemporary appraisal. - PubMed - NCBI This article states there is another compound they use now and I have never heard of it.
Right on dobutamine is selective for those Beta 1 Receptors that regulate the heart as such.
It's important to note that dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine are all a part of the same system, and are all similar molecules. Whereas serotonin is a completely different form and system. Epi is actually considered a metabolite of Dope.
As far as Op'd Doc was concerned...I could say a bunch of things regarding dope/epi receptor down regulation, but that is a simple thing to say from 1970. Today we know it is much more complicated. Maybe doc was just givin easy... I don't know. For Adderall, we just discovered the Trace-Amine Associated Receptor a short time ago.
And medical cannabis? As much as you may like it, you always have to resist the stoner-notion that it is a cure all. Both Cannabinoids and Prostaglandins are eicosanoids that both follow the kind of framework that I am interested in.