Posted by DSCH on September 23, 2003, at 15:18:56
In reply to Re: Asking for trouble? » Dr. Bob, posted by CamW. on September 22, 2003, at 16:36:20
> Clearly this board could potentially do a whole heck of a lot of damage to someone. Anyone not versed (at least a little bit) in psychopharamcology may not be able to separate the real wheat from the real chaff when it comes to self-administration.
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> I guess time will tell. I have not been posting of late because a fair bit of the recent advice on PB is very suspect. Not many people are researching, or even reading the studies that they quote, relying on the written words of a reporter (eg. the J Clin Psychiatry article on successfully losing the weight gained while taking Zyprexa - my reading of the article differs vastly from that of the reporter.
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> A similar thing is very likely to happen on this board, only I'll bet it will happen more often. Anyone remember the pig pills?
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> - CamPot.... Kettle... Black?
a) Cylert => liver failure
b) Wellbutrin => seizures
c) Just about any of the stories on this board of intolerable side effects, or "poop out" souring a long-sought cocktail of medication that had worked.
When amatuers make mistakes it's idiocy.
When professionals make them it becomes "serendipidious advancement of the boundaries of knowledge".
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