Posted by forgetful mary on March 8, 2006, at 20:29:43
In reply to Re: The 'new' NardilThanks Willyee » forgetful mary, posted by ed_uk on March 8, 2006, at 16:41:41
And I just happened to have the drug poop out just when it was changed? As did others?? Just a curious coincidence ??
(You would make a lousy detective!!!)
And yes they DID change the ingredients of the pill I had been ingesting for many years....let's not use semantics to make your point shall we???
By the way if they had added peanut butter to it without notifying anyone they could well have killed someone...BTW- And just so you know I have considered other reasons for the change...try this one on for size...How do we know what these drugs do after long term use?? We don't...maybe these long term users are illustrating just what happens when you take a psychiatric drug for an extended period of time??....another possibility for the change is perhaps damage to long term users, which means we are all guinea pigs--BUT I knew the risk then and knew that without it I would not have lasted as long as I have...YOU don't know anymore than I do whether the changes made caused the CHANGE IN REACTION, and because they did change it we will never know , GENERICS are supposed to leave the original for those who don't respond well to the generic-Pfizer hasn't done that as peoples quality of life is just too costly for them to care.
> Hi
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> >Thanks for the support.......
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> I'm not attacking you, I'm simply stating my views.
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> >I know he would be better off with the old Nardil
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> How can you possibly know that?
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> >More alarming than this one drug is the fact that the FDA pretty much allows these manufactureres to change a drug in any way and NOT TELL ANYONE
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> The manufacturer didn't change the drug. The drug is phenelzine sulfate, just as it always was. The manufacturer altered the excipients once they had gained FDA approval to do so. The approval was based on evidence that the new formulation was bioequivalent to the old one.
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> I am sorry that Nardil no longer relieves your symptoms in the way that it once did. It is a sad fact that psych meds frequently 'poop out' after prolonged use. Alternatively, people's underlying condition(s) can change, rendering their medication ineffective.
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> When I started this thread I was taking the risk that I would make myself unpopular. I did so because I believe that this thread will be a valuable source of information.
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> Regards
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> Ed
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