Posted by europerep on March 15, 2014, at 17:12:42
In reply to Re: Another step on the Lexapro journey » europerep, posted by phidippus on March 15, 2014, at 15:07:13
>>Have you actually even read her earlier posts?
> Yes, but what does that matter?
For example, she said that higher doses of escitalopram considerably worsened her depression.
> Aren't you being pretentious right now?Not that I'm aware of.
> What assumptions did I make?That there is not a single patient who needs a lower-than-common dosage of an antidepressant. Maybe it would even be possible that she is actually getting to therapeutic drug concentrations in her blood, due to an extremely slow or inhibited metabolism.
But we don't even have to go there: reports of people who need "weird" doses (both higher or lower than the generally prescribed range) exist. And that makes perfect economic sense by the way: why would drug companies produce a dosage that only a fraction of all patients would need?
> I'm not a god, just someone who knows a thing or two.Then maybe you shouldn't act like one?
poster:europerep
thread:1062452
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20140307/msgs/1062572.html