Posted by SLS on September 2, 2012, at 6:45:40
In reply to Re: Mifepristone?, posted by Lamdage22 on September 2, 2012, at 5:54:56
> Interesting..
I tried mifepristone after conferring with Alan Schatzberg and his colleague in Britain, I was informed that the drug treatment only helped with the psychotic component of psychotic depression. I do not have psychotic depression. However, there were some reports of it helping with non-psychotic depression, too. I decided to try it anyway. It involved a long process of getting my treatment approved by the FDA as an open trial. I'm sure you know the protocol is to take mifepristone for eight consecutive days, and then discontinue it. I received no benefit. However, I felt "washed-out" afterwards. I didn't like the feeling. Mifepristone really shouldn't be taken for longer than a week or so. It causes the adrenal glands to secrete large amounts of cortisol because the negative-feedback loop is interrupted by the blockade of cortisol receptors in the hypothalamus. If anything is going to exhaust the adrenals, it would be a mifepristone.
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> > Mifepristone is a cortisol blocker and in cases of psychotic depression, is used to control psychotic symptoms. It does not treat the depression, so you would still need an AD onboard.
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> > It wouldn't hurt to have your cortisol levels checked.
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> > I was part of Stanford's clinical trials for Mifepristone. That was fun.
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