Posted by rvanson on March 23, 2007, at 9:34:25
In reply to No hope in more useless drugs to test on us, posted by stargazer on March 20, 2007, at 8:44:33
> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
I agree with you, Stargazer.For me it was 1985, when the A/D "Merital" was released, and then suddenly pulled off the shelfs after only a few months due to a rare side-effect that I never experienced. Funny, it was marketed in Europe for 8 years previously with few problems.
Nothing but a MAOI has even come close to Merital in helping with my adhedonia and now they are talking about "triple-reuptake" inhibitors by 2010?
Just more blood $$ in big pharmas' pockets and these drugs will still have lots of unreported side-effects, despite all thier slick ads.
I am no longer waiting for the "new drug" to come along.
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