Posted by Dinah on January 7, 2006, at 10:19:25
In reply to Re: AP's, posted by linkadge on January 5, 2006, at 18:20:05
Maybe researchers should look more closely at drug reactions to help in classifying illnesses better.
Because we all know that depression isn't a single illness and anxiety isn't a single illness. And they don't have a single cause or treatment.
It would be interesting to compare the neurochemical makeup or PET scans or something of those who respond well to one class of drugs or another.
SSRI's had both good and bad effects for me. Anything with NE was toxic. And AP's have always been like aspirin to me, able to cure more than one thing. Somehow they work on depression as well as anxiety in me.
Wouldn't it be good to try to figure out why some people respond so d*mn well to AP's (or Prozac or Wellbutrin or Effexor) while other people respond so poorly? So if you took the people who responded best and worst to these classes of drugs and studied what was different about them, mightn't it lessen the hit and miss prescription of drugs?
I'll volunteer. :)
poster:Dinah
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