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Document ID: FAA-2009-0773-0016
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
Received Date: May 27 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: May 28 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: May 26 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: June 25 2010, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80af531d
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This is comment on Rule

Special Issuance of Airman Medical Certificates to Applicants Being Treated With Certain Antidepressant Medications: Re-Opening of Comment Period

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There are pilots that are prescribed anti-depressant (Nortriptyline, for instance) medicine for other reasons than depression. It is sometimes prescribed for Shingles and Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PSN). In these cases, it is for pain management (non-narcotic) and as a cure for the above. In this case there should be no reason for "grounding" the pilot.