Posted by SLS on January 4, 2012, at 1:50:18
In reply to Re: Antidepressants, Talk Theraphy, Placebos All Same, posted by Tony P on January 3, 2012, at 22:13:15
> The results don't surprise me given the many weaknesses in the design. As I think someone else commented, the results could also be interpreted as "ANY _single_ treatment works for about 1/3 of depressed patients", which agrees with most other studies I have seen.
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> My biggest beef with small but over-generalized studies like this is that they take no account of individual responses to ADs, far worse in this case because only 2 ADs were considered.
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> As an example, survey papers comparing SNRIs generally conclude that Cymbalta is inferior to Effexor overall (as a result, my drug plan covers Effexor but not Cymbalta. Grrr.). However, for me Effexor is intolerable because of side-effects, Cymbalta is more effective than nearly every AD I have tried, and has almost zero S/E. My pdoc has also found Cymbalta effective & low S/E with many of his patients. Where am I in these collective averages?
Very valid points.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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