Posted by Zo on July 22, 2001, at 20:30:20
In reply to Listening to Prozac vs your own experiences, posted by Joe Schmoe on July 22, 2001, at 16:08:29
> What good is being more attractive if you become numb below the waist? What good is your career taking off if you gain 40 pounds?
Exactly. The book raised interesting points - and SSRIs aren't magic. Drug companies develop what sells. Why aren't there more dopaminergic ADs like Wellbutrin? Because that book, and Prozac, caught the public fancy. You've got to grant, Prozac was a *miracle* compared to tricyclics and MAOs. The first "designer drug". . that didn't pepper the receptor sites like buckshot.
> Five days of Paxil was enough to convince me I had no interest in these medicines and would rather try something more benign like Wellbutrin, but of course Wellbutrin has no book written about it singing its praises so I don't know exactly what I should expect from it, except presumably a better overall mood.
Smart man. Dopamine FEELS GOOD.
> I have to wonder why the SSRIs remain the first drug of choice for the average doctor confronted by a depressed or anxious patient. Do the SSRIs truly have a personality-transforming power that Wellbutrin and Serzone do not? Or is it just baloney?
Duh. Whoever said most Average Doctors have time - or like to - think. They're as prey to drug co. advertising as we are, only moreso. No perks for we poor patients.
I think Serzone is an SSRI. Maybe I'm wrong, but it felt like one - horrid zombie-land - to me. Wellbutrin is a different class. Effexor is also not classified as an SSRI.
That's what's great about this board - one has to think for oneself, and this is support to do so.
Zo
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