Posted by stargazer on March 20, 2007, at 8:44:33
In reply to Re: Pdoc's thought about up and coming drugs » naughtypuppy, posted by Phillipa on March 18, 2007, at 15:53:53
The last thing I'm interested in is what are the latest meds out there for depression. My feeling is this only causes more lost time with drug trials and unknown side effects and more profits for the drug compnies and less quality of life for me.
Frankly, I'm so disgusted with all the latest and greatest meds I've tried in the past 20 years and now they're saying most of the SSRI's were useless for so many of us. Made me suicidal too way before they admitted to this side effect. It wasn't my depression getting worse it was the med making me worse. You're never going to get the companies to tell the truth with these meds. That only comes out later, after the damage is done.
Cynical, you bet, but that is how I feel. Some of the best meds are the oldest ones (MAO's, ect)and the drug companies are now paying the generic manufacturers to not make the generics since they want to keep the profits themselves.
Greed is all I see lately and although it seems like all the new developments will help, I don't believe it anymore. I used to think positively about the newer drugs coming out. Not anymore, all those new drugs have only clouded the path and wasted more time finding the right drug.
The only way to get an answer will be if they come up with better diagnostic tests to determine which meds will work, not trying so many randomly. That is a crapshoot for many of us, who don't have the time and energy to do this anymore. With my history (20+) I have seen it all.
One of the best meds I was on in 1994 was discontinued by Roche, who felt that Marplan could be replaced by the "newer, better" SSRI meds that had come onto the market. Well, my life went downhill and never fully came back from that point. I have tried every (almost) new drug out there since '94 and none of them worked as well as Marplan. I have lost so much time and faith in the system that I don't believe anything I am told anymore.
I still think the older meds are still the best for so many of us who have long term resistent depression, which is a good number of us here. Why do you think so many are taking MAO's despite, their side effect profile?
Sorry for my rant, but I am not impressed with the pharmaceutical advances in psychiatry. I don't think we are that much further along, despite the numbers of drugs that have emerged in the last 20 years. From my standpoint anyway.
In my opinion, less is more. The sheer numbers of meds just make the whole process more confusing and frustrating and postpone finding an the right answer.
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