Posted by JohnL on August 27, 2001, at 3:36:24
In reply to Re: Women's Intuition - You've got my vote!, posted by SLS on August 26, 2001, at 23:39:23
>The problem is, just how large a percentage of people will always experience a brief positive effect from the drugs that they will later respond to?***Most. No percentage given. Based purely on adecdotal evidence from this board and from my own doc's office.
>How large a percentage of people will not experience a blip from any medication, yet respond to almost all of them?
***None. Again, anecdotal. In these cases, the response is hardly ever, if ever, a full adequate response.
>I think it is absolutely imperative to determine the answers to these questions, whether it be through retrospective analyses of case histories or prospective double-blind studies. Otherwise, some very easily treatable people will end up going through half a dozen drugs before their doctors get the bright idea of continuing at least one of them for longer than five days.
***If they are so easily treatable, then they will logically pass the 5 day test with flying colors. They can weed out a bunch of inferior match drugs and focus on superior ones in the same time it would take someone else to try just one.
> To me, five day trials might make sense. Two week trials definitely don't.***Though we disagree a little on the length of a trial period, it's nice to see you coming around. I remember months ago you were dead set on full 8 week trials being the only way to treat anyone. You scoffed very loudly at short trials. It's nice to see your horizons and insight have broadened.
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