Posted by Canadian Michele on January 22, 2000, at 16:57:36
As some of you must be aware Drug Trials are done on a white, male population sample.
For a number of reasons, some of which are the changeable factors that menstration or menopause would pose to a drug study (not insurrmountable but perhaps more time consuming for the drug company)
and the possibility of pregnancy and subsequent lawsuits (they could use a group of women that are sterilized or post menopausal) results of drug studies are gender biased.My psycdoc, being very much at the vanquard of treatment, starts her female patients on very small doses of AD's. For example I am very sensitive to side-effects and I started my Effexor treatment for the second time (2 years ago with bad results from side effects) at 1/8th of a 37.5mg tablet. That dosage is maintained for 7 days. Then increase to 1/4 tablet and so forth.
I have zero side effects using this method and am building gradually to a level that gives me the positives I want without the negatives.
Some of her patients have great results with miniscule amounts.
Michele
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