Posted by stargazer on March 21, 2007, at 9:09:07
In reply to Re: No hope in more useless drugs to test on us » TheMeanReds, posted by Phillipa on March 20, 2007, at 21:57:23
Actually I think I'm being more realistic, you would know where I'm at if you had tried drugs for 20 years, always being told that they were the latest, greatest, etc. You get very cynical, but more realistic too. It makes you fight harder, but not believe everything you are told.
How about the SSRI's and what they now know about them. Yes, they work for many in their first or second bouts with depression, but not as your depression gets worse as you have it longer and longer. And I still think the older meds work as well or better for more resistent cases. That's why I'm so angry that the drug companies elect to discontinue meds, or change them, when they no longer make a profit for them. This was done with both Marplan and Nardil, dooming those on them to more suffering. Marplan was discontinued in 1994 and I still consider it that last good AD that worked for me. Everything since then is just a patchwork of meds with marginal results.
It's almost as if they don't want people to stay on the MAO's, knowing they work, but knowing there is no profit for them if people use those generic drugs, rather than the newer (brand) ones, that make them BIG money.
Have you seen the huge number of prescriptions written for the new drugs, followed by drops due to the ineffectiveness or SE's of the meds. Look at all the SE's of the AP's that now have come to light, years later...
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