Posted by yxibow on December 6, 2006, at 1:16:18
In reply to Re: Are benzos the only drugs that do anything? » Phillipa, posted by Quintal on December 5, 2006, at 18:59:02
> There's some info on side effects here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a605002.html
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> I doubt many pdocs would be willing to prescribe it either except under special circumstances.
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> QWhich I have said before -- but not because of the side effects so much -- protease inhibitors are a real sticky wicket to manage with concomitant depression. They would like to keep their DEA license which allows them to prescribe, pay their malpractice insurance in case someone overdoses on buprenorphine, and generally stay out of the limelight of license auditing of doctors who freely prescribe opiates which while they in the short term help those who have been through a number of medications, are not a part of generalized western psychopharmocological practice.
And also while we are on the subject of ranting that no drug on the market does anything, I have to say that, with no disrespect to individuals on this board, who have been through tireless trials of medications, we are a special population. This is why we are here. This is why people rant about medications because a number of them are treatment refractory.A certain unnamed individual who treats me has remarked that even those with MDD in his practice has largely seen that about 70% of patients respond with the first medication. Those are the millions of people who are not this board.
Thus, this board serves a subset of the community who do not respond to one, but maybe need two or more medications to exist.
And then we get into generalized discussions that all medications are worthless. Which by the way is not generally how things are supposed to be phrased on this board. Because there are people who are taking this "worthless" medication X and are responding to it, for better or worse. Even the placebo effect has responders up to 30% of the time.This is a disclaimer that this reflects my opinion and is not a generalized antisocial reflection upon the members of this community. We all in a way help each other by reporting what is known in the medical community as "case reports." Enough of these reports and one might get a feeling for what a medication might do to them -- but one has to remember that everyone is genetically and environmentally different.
--tidings
Jay
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