Posted by SLS on July 5, 2004, at 23:40:34
In reply to has prozac lost it's lead?, posted by 1980Monroe on July 5, 2004, at 22:34:33
> I think zoloft now is taking over, but i dont have any sourses to back me up, but im pretty sure it is.
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> i think it was on the top 10 prescribed medcations till late or middle 90's so it lasted a good 6-8 years in the lead.
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> Does anyone belive it will ever spring back up? or its now an underclass medcation.
Hi.
No one antidepressant cures everyone. Each person's psychobiology is unique and responsive to some drugs and not to others. Each drug has value as a tool to work miracles for people (I don't consider that to be hyperbole). That, statistically, not as many people respond robustly to Serzone doesn't really matter to the people who do, especially to those who do not respond to any other drug.Zoloft supplanted Prozac as the first choice of doctors in the mid 1990s. I really don't know what the prescribing practices are today. It seems to depend on how many pens the drug reps give out. I guess Lexapro is being tried first now. Prozac (fluoxetine) is probably underutilized and underestimated currently compared to the newer SSRIs. Effexor is probably more effective than all of the SSRIs. Imipramine has been forgotton about and put out to pasture, and is also more effective than the SSRIs. Nardil and Parnate were sequestered and made invisible in an undisclosed location. All of this is relative, though, and perhaps only esoteric. The worst drug globally can be the best drug locally if it works for *you*. Since we don't really understand how the brain works or how any of our drugs work, we really do need every damned one of them.
Sorry for the melodrama.
- Scott
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