Posted by scott-d-o on February 4, 2004, at 19:39:44
In reply to Re: Doxepin v Mirtazapine, posted by Karen Moore on February 4, 2004, at 15:51:11
> I will say that philosophically, when discussing meds I think it is important not to take that final step to generalization and judgement as to whether or not one drug is better than another. Though 90% of the time that generalization may be true, all too often there is a subgroup of individuals who fit into the 10% and do better with the "inferior" drug. Since I usually find myself in the 0.05% subgroup I've had to always research "how things work" and dismiss "which one works better". This certainly increases the level of complexity necessary for the given problem, but that's just nature of the beast.
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> P.S. re: Scott << "da antagonism: bad for people with parkinson's, good for schizophrenics. The whole point of pharmacology is to correct imbalances and/or dysfunctions in these neurological systems, which occur in different forms for different people..."
> Point well taken. Different drugs, different applications, different successes and problems. For that matter, one person's unbearable side-effect is another's panacea...thanks karen, at least someone is on the same wavelength as me ;)
scott
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