Posted by detroitpistons on June 15, 2010, at 10:44:16
In reply to Re: Drug Holiday?, posted by stewie on June 14, 2010, at 17:18:44
I respect psychiatrists in that they more or less have zero tools to work with...It's like trying to flip a pancake with a fork! What they do is all about having knowledge gained by working with hundreds or thousands of patients. The same goes for all doctors, but especially psychiatrists because they are stuck in the stone age as far as having diagnostic and prescribing tools.
That said, I think it would be good if psychiatrists had extra training in neuropharmacology.
> Just to complicate matters, I will put in my two-cents.
> I returned to celexa and lamictal several years after they pooped-out. I was skeptical, because returning to ssris that had once worked but then stopped had just been a waste.
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> For some reason, though, going back to this combo helped once.
> I'm not going to say that it did not poop out again, because it did, but I got a bit of mileage out of it even on round 2.
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> Having said all of that, the notion of hitting other receptors certainly makes a lot of sense to me, and maybe you will find yourself doing that no matter what.
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> I am really starting to think that so many doctors develop such a "willy-nilly" approach because they are stuck with tools that promise much more than they deliver and because we humans are so idiosyncratic in our responses. Small wonder that so few graduating doctors go into psychiatry.
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