Posted by henryo on January 10, 2008, at 4:08:19
In reply to Re: DEPLIN L-methylfolate/henryo, posted by stargazer2 on January 2, 2008, at 9:02:25
Stargazer, you didn't read my whole post before you started to clear things up.
I am not using Deplin alone. As I said, I am taking Lamictal. I have been for several years. It has always worked much better than anything before it, but at times things still got painful.
Deplin is not folic acid. Folic acid is folic acid. Deplin is what your body metabolizes folic acid into. You would have to take 53 1000 mg tablets of folic acid for your body even to be able to produce the equivalent one 7.5 mg pill of Deplin.
Deplin is an AD, an augmentation AD. It requires a prescription and it is specifically for depression. Vitamins are not FDA approved for depression.
Taking Deplin was a shot in the dark, as is every other medication ever posted about in this forum. Like every single medication here the efficacy of each varies greatly between individuals. If you get into the truly fine print of how any psychoactive medication works the final explanations are theory and the mechanism of action is always unknown. They say so clearly.
Nobody has ever determined I have any kind of nutritional deficiencies of any kind, folic acid or otherwise.
I think it is arrogant of you to speculate that I may have had a placebo effect cure. I have tried more than a dozen medications over nearly two decades. I know what depression is. I think I have some experience and valid insights into my own condition.
Good luck in achieving the continued response you are currently getting. Even if you dont mean that as backhanded, it sounds like it given the tone of most of your post.
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