Posted by linkadge on December 3, 2006, at 11:29:42
In reply to Re: Maybe all drugs are like this, posted by SLS on December 3, 2006, at 10:50:08
*Think of it this way*
The phenomnina of epilepsy becoming resistant to anticonvulsants if they are stopped and restarted is well known. In these cases, I don't think that just "taking the drug for longer" actually does anything, the elileptic has become truly resistant to that drug. I know that can happen with tegretol, since my cousin had that problem. He stopped tegretol which was effective for seizures, then restarting it did not prevent the seizures. He had to switch to a new anticonvulsant.
So, what makes that so different from mood disorders? Maybe its the exact same phenomina. Some sort of increased limbic kindling occurs when the drug is stopped, and then the same dose of the same drug is insufficiant to stop the process.
If it exists in epilepsy, why is it so hard to believe that it could happen in mood disorders?
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