Posted by Sean on October 13, 1999, at 12:43:24
In reply to Phenytoin aka Dilantin??, posted by dj on October 11, 1999, at 8:32:35
> Scanning some shelves in the local mega-bookstore I came across the title: A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked : Including an Autobiography and the Clinical Section of the Broad Range of Use of Phenytoin by Jack Dreyfus. The title indicated that the authour, a prominent U.S. financier, had developed depression and used the above drug, commonly used for epilepsy to treat his depression.
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> Anyone know anything about this drug and/or case?. A scan of the book's contents indicated that the author has since been on a fruitless quest to have the drug issued as an AD, which included meeting with R. Raygun, who was president at the time. From the bits I read the book was not especially well written. However the bit that caught my eye was his reasoning about his depression being like an electrical storm in his body, which led to him testing out Dilantin. There's a line in it where he notes that after taking the medication he noted that he no longer had the flat taste in his mouth, the same one I've been experiencing by the sounds of it...something which NO-ONE on this board or off has been able to shed any light on. Go figure...Open the pod bay door Haldol...
poster:Sean
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