Ruling out medical causes of depression

Posted by saturn on December 14, 2006, at 12:00:13

Is it standard (or necessary) for pdocs (or any doc)to get for example B12, thyroid studies, before starting antidepressants?
I know several people who have just been straight given AD's without any of these kind of tests. There's just a typical "Do you have any medical problems" or "when was your last physical" and that's it.

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Ruling out medical causes of depression saturn 12/14/06
Re: Ruling out medical causes of depression » saturn Phillipa 12/14/06
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Case management/ Primary MD should do but... stargazer 12/14/06
Case management/ Primary MD should do but... stargazer 12/14/06
Why does that appear twice? Keeps happening (nm) stargazer 12/14/06
Re: Why does that appear twice? Keeps happening » stargazer saturn 12/14/06

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