Posted by naughtypuppy on December 1, 2006, at 10:43:41
In reply to Re: Maybe all drugs are like this, posted by linkadge on November 29, 2006, at 16:43:30
> I don't know who argued that lithium will make you kill yourself because it does have a documented antisuicide effect.
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> Infact, lithium and clozapine are the only two psychiatric medications that have a statisically significant proven anti-sucide effect.
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> >First of all, you *do* get back to normal
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> I'm not saying that everybody who discontinues the drug fails to regain theraputic effect, but it has been documented that some people do fail to regain theraputic effect after discontinuation.
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I read somewhere that about 10% of people that stop Parnate, find it effective and then restarted it at a later time had found that it had lost it's effectiveness. IMHO this is absolutely true. I found Parnate to be the best AD that I had tried so far, but had to discontinue because of allergic reactions. I went back on it several months later with the addition of very powerful antihistamines to combat the allergic reactions but the Parnate had lost all it's effectiveness. I see no obvious reason to belive that this would not occure with other medications as well.
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