Posted by Klavot on June 7, 2006, at 13:29:43
In reply to Question about placebo effect, posted by honeybee on June 7, 2006, at 10:38:52
> Does anyone out there have experiences starting new drugs and those drugs seeming to get things going early on? I remember going on Effexor (long long ago) and believing I could feel a difference immediately. Supposedly, I could also feel Cymbalta immediately.
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> But everyone always says that those are placebo reponses. Is that really the case? Because they *feel* so very, very chemical.
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> Any other theories?
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> hbI have had similar experiences with Zoloft and Wellbutrin.
I think what happened is this: the pharmaceutical industry said that resonse may take *up to* two weeks - "up to" being the operative phrase. From there, to simplify things, doctors simply take *two weeks* as the response period, to the point where it as become a piece of SSRI folklore.
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