Posted by 4WD on August 27, 2005, at 16:53:24
In reply to Re: RU486 OTC?, posted by Ocracoker16 on August 27, 2005, at 14:22:12
> SLS, I know that it is also being investigated for use in bipolar depression. You can go to NIH website and look at the numerous studies. I knew what her question was. She knew about research on the drug that showed promise. When she heard about emergency BC she thought that they meant mifepristone. That seemed neat and she wondered if she could get to try if it became an OTC. The research being done is another topic which I didn't go into, because mifepristone is not the morning after pill. I did not want to talk about mifepristerone's therapeutic qualities because I didn't want others thinking that we are close to getting the mifepristone OTC making it easy to get for the masses who could only try it by being in clinical trials.
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> Ofcourse she is interested in it for treatment of bipolar depression. If I had no idea that mifepristone was being studied for psychiatric purposes, I would be wondering why she thought it was interesting that it might become an OTC drug. Instead, I read it to say that the morning after pill might become available OTC and that meant she could try mifepristone. I immediately said something is wrong here, because this drug is not a morning after pill. While mifepristone might be an effecive treatment(I am very med resistant and I am alwas hoping for drugs just like this one to pan out), Plan B and Preven are the emergency bc pills that are being considered for OTC status.
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> Congratulations if you made it this far. I will write posts of this length in the future so there is no chance someone could think that I had to be informed that there was another use. I never should have given details on how it works for abortion in order to educate people about the difference between mifepristone and emergency bc pills. Its ok that you didn't realize I knew about use in bipolar depression because I never talked about that. I explained it above. For those who don't know the psych uses, your detailed explanation helps to reform.
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> Not a good day. I don't know anyone here. Everyone will hate me for what I wrote. I feel vulnerable.
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> Katie
Hi Katie,No, no no. Don't feel bad. It was my mistake. I thought the morning after pill WAS mifepristone. I just got confused. Sorry. I thought it sounded too good to be true. OH well.
And welcome to pbabble! Do you live on Ocracoke?Marsha
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