Posted by SLS on August 26, 2001, at 23:39:23
In reply to Re: Women's Intuition, posted by Zo on August 26, 2001, at 16:14:28
> For years a very intuitive friend and I secretly applied our own "Jensen Method". . .not only because it was immensely easier on us (med trials suck) (can I say suck?) -- and who would believe this, for not only were we nutsos, we were FEMALE nutsos -- but we each could tell immediately, like on the first day, if a med was gonna fly. The body speaks! Sometimes it would take another few weeks for the positive result to reappear. But bodily intuition is as the best guidance you're ever going to get. By now, I routinely use it to run my meds and supplements, not only what to take but how much. One way through the vast thicket.. . . > > Zo
Dear Zo,Thanks for posting your thoughts and experiences. You are definitely not nutsos. Your intuition rings true with what I have seen for myself.
I think what you describe is exactly what Dr. Jensen looks for within the first five days of treatment. I believe that this type of initial "blip" can be a valid prognosticator of eventual response to a medication. It might very well be a consistent phenomenon for a certain percentage of people. The problem is, just how large a percentage of people will always experience a brief positive effect from the drugs that they will later respond to? How large a percentage of people will not experience a blip from any medication, yet respond to almost all of them? I think it is absolutely imperative to determine the answers to these questions, whether it be through retrospective analyses of case histories or prospective double-blind studies. Otherwise, some very easily treatable people will end up going through half a dozen drugs before their doctors get the bright idea of continuing at least one of them for longer than five days.
To me, five day trials might make sense. Two week trials definitely don't.
- Scott
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