Posted by katekite on July 31, 2002, at 12:08:50
In reply to Re: Lexapro rep pushes Lexapro, what a shock » katekite, posted by JaneB on July 31, 2002, at 10:24:45
No, I think you should trust in someone's opinion based on how honest, intelligent, experienced, and educated they are, their credentials, and how unbiased they seem. Your psychiatrist sounds like all of those things and I would trust him if he suggests one drug over another. I do think its weird that a psychiatrist would say that any un-marketed drug is 'better' than any other. I would think it more likely they would say it was "promising" or "might be great". My own psychiatrist thinks similarly to yours, that it sounds good.
Please understand I have nothing against Lexapro itself. I have high hopes that it will turn out to be a great drug.
What bugs me is someone who has something financial to gain making overgeneralizations or using their authority to plug a drug. Especially using studies and facts and putting them all together to make it sound as if they can prove something will work or be better when the numbers of people who have tried it are still so small.
Like saying that because one isomer competes with another that a drug that is a single isomer will work better for that reason. The drug may work better in a study than the other drug. They may show that the two isomers interact in another separate study. But they don't show a causal connection between the two so they can't say the one thing causes the other. The drug rep is trying to confuse people into just trying the drug hoping that people will like it. I wish they would instead say "we don't know how Lexapro would affect you but we wish you would try it. It seems to help some people." That would at least be honest.
Kate
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