Posted by bigcat on October 27, 2005, at 10:56:16
In reply to Gamanil » bigcat, posted by ed_uk on October 26, 2005, at 14:39:07
Ed,
My doc really runs the gamut when prescribing. He's often telling me stories of the nature "we couldn't get anything to work for this patient and then we finally tried so and so, and it worked wonderfully for them. You just never know". He has prescibed many "underutilized" meds not out of desperation, but because of his empirical clinical experience. Noveril and Marsalid were some other imports I tried, and I know there were others.
When I went on the Gamanil, it was directly following another med trial that really put me in the pits. I'm convinced that when we started the Gaminil, I simply returned to my normal state of depression, but he thought it could have been doing something. Either way, I eventually had such bad constipation that I wound up in the hospital needing an enima. In the past, I would combat this issue with magnesium citrate which always worked very well. It's reassuring that he's always thinking about new options, often explaining how certain meds are popular in other parts of the world, even as America has brushed off these drugs for whatever reasons (I imagine economic futility ranks way up there).
-matt-
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