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Re: low dose risperdal -- Dinah

Posted by linkadge on February 11, 2007, at 11:42:57

In reply to Re: low dose risperdal -- Dinah, posted by munificentexegete on February 10, 2007, at 16:10:16

>which imbalance do they fix?


Like I said, antipschotic treatment can oftentimes be associated with a normalization of the HPA axis. Some researchers think that psychosis in some people is fundimentally caused by HPA axis abnormalities, hence the strong antipsychotic actions of antiglutacortacoid drugs like RU-486.


>http://www.contac.org/contaclibrary/medications22>.htm

A single case of something does not proove anything. The woman was taking lithium too, which has occasionally been asociated with TD. It is impossable to say that everybody treated with atypical antipsychotics is going to develop TD, even if there have been some cases of it.

There are going to be risks involved in treatment of any disease. The decision to take a medication or not is based on the personal cost/benifit ratio.


>once TD is proved, it is simply as bad as a >typical AP

Its not a matter of being proven or not. You have proved that TD *can* occur. That does not proove that TD will occur in any given patient.

Just as any given side effect for any drug will not occur in all patients.

Linkadge


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