Gaevren posted:
Think about it this way too. You have some mental issues that are taking quite a toll on your life in certain ways. All drugs have side effects. Sometimes the side effect is even death, and that's with meds that have been on the market for a long time, never mind newer drugs. Would you really want to wait 5-10 years to try something that could possibly cure you, or at the very least improve your situation immensely? I think I would take the risk.
_sooz_ posted:
http://gizmodo.com/brain/
"It's an entirely new approach to treating clinical depression, which is the first of several diseases scientists at biotech company Neuralstem are hoping to address with their experimental oral drug. Most antidepressants work on brain chemistry, tweaking levels of neurotransmitters including serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This is the first drug that aims to re-grow patients' atrophied brains."
With anything that messes with my brain or my genes, i would want to see at LEAST 5-10 year long-term results before even going near something like this. It's one thing to take a new anti-depressant or something, the worst you get there is some bad side effects, but something like this just plain sounds dodgy.
So, would you do it?
http://gizmodo.com/brain/
"It's an entirely new approach to treating clinical depression, which is the first of several diseases scientists at biotech company Neuralstem are hoping to address with their experimental oral drug. Most antidepressants work on brain chemistry, tweaking levels of neurotransmitters including serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This is the first drug that aims to re-grow patients' atrophied brains."
With anything that messes with my brain or my genes, i would want to see at LEAST 5-10 year long-term results before even going near something like this. It's one thing to take a new anti-depressant or something, the worst you get there is some bad side effects, but something like this just plain sounds dodgy.
So, would you do it?
Think about it this way too. You have some mental issues that are taking quite a toll on your life in certain ways. All drugs have side effects. Sometimes the side effect is even death, and that's with meds that have been on the market for a long time, never mind newer drugs. Would you really want to wait 5-10 years to try something that could possibly cure you, or at the very least improve your situation immensely? I think I would take the risk.
I'd still rather take my chances with my drug regimen that (mostly) works than try something that messes so dramatically with my head. Maybe if i was completely treatment resistant (including ECT) and absolutely NOTHING worked, then maybe it would be a different situation, but as it currently stands i take drugs that work and im not willing to risk something terrible happening on the new drug.
Better the devil you know than the devil you dont.
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