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Re: Went to pdoc today ... what do you think? » ed_uk

Posted by yxibow on May 3, 2006, at 23:19:54

In reply to Re: Went to pdoc today ... what do you think? » yxibow, posted by ed_uk on May 3, 2006, at 11:00:54

> Hi J
>
> As someone who's had many coughs and colds, I can safely say that although annoying, colds are hardly comparable in importance to major mental illness!
>
> Ed

I didnt -- but hypertensive crises are real. And deadly, potentially. I didnt say every last hoop had to be gone through, but they're serious medication.


It's not just MAOIs that contraindicate OTC medications -- warfarin, and other drugs too. My Dad has to use Nasonex for his use of doxazosin for BPH because he can't take anything else.


And ECT has never killed a patient in its modern use here at UCLA. Yes, there is a chance of short term memory loss because it is a controlled (emphasis on control, this isnt 1950) seizure and there are always risks of general anaesthesia (which I'm paranoid I'll admit -- never have taken), but it may be even more effective than any drug itself because of its immediacy in changing of body chemistry.


As far as codeine, well, when my Dad was a professor when they still handed it out, he could go to class and actually teach on it. We're not talking complicated pneumonic infections, just a bad hoarse throat.


Sure, if your life depended on what is essentially adult supervision and your doctor was sure you were going to jump out of the window, you couldn't exist in life otherwise, then an MAOI is awfully appropriate. But the casual use of them I think is personally dangerous.


Thats just my 2c

-- J

 

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