Posted by Racer on April 30, 2006, at 17:49:24
In reply to Re: Do you know tianeptne? » Racer, posted by Phillipa on April 30, 2006, at 13:17:50
> Boy you're lucky to have a pdoc that knows about your physical health as mine and my others always send to to an internist or GP. They always say psych is my specialty I know nothing about thyroid or physical things. ... and they don't even want copies of the findings.
I'm not going to give a full explanation of my meaning, because I just don't have the energy for that.
Here's a very quick version:
Even if we really do know all about a medication -- we don't know ALL ABOUT the person asking the question.
Does my psychiatrist delve into my full physical history? No. But she does ask relevant questions about it. And she does check my blood pressure if she's prescribing something that might affect it, or she'll tell me to go get it checked myself. That's appropriate.
Would she want copies of a CBC or other blood panel? Only if it might be relevant to the medication I am on.
My point to the poster was simple, though: ask his doctor about appropriate dosage FOR HIM. We can say "here's the range of doses," and likely be dead on accurate. But we can't say, "THIS is the dose that you need to take." We don't know.
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