Posted by Quintal on March 14, 2007, at 20:33:06
In reply to Re: Systemic bias » Quintal, posted by clint878 on March 14, 2007, at 18:09:45
>I do recall that discussion. It is certainly possible that in your case you did have the highly unusual reading problems, in which case you did the right thing - to stop the medication.
I didn't stop the Lamictal - I kept on taking it, the reading problems went away and I had two years of depression free stability because of it. The reading problems seem fairly common in the beginning of treatment, I suspect not everyone affected by it does enough reading to notice though.
>Even if he did experience this psychosis, he was probably prescribed the drug to combat the very condition of psychosis which is commonly caused by mania. Or perhaps he took the wrong drug or something.
I think that's fairly obvious to anyone reading the post, so I don't understand;
> We'll never know, which is why I'll stick to the published literature from now on.
Why?! It's clear published literature too has bias, but it is much harder to detect and dissect. It's clear that some people don't want to respond to anything and you can see this by looking at their profiles and getting a general picture of their character and temperament. I've found people like myself on RemedyFind - in fact many have contacted me over the years and I've formed some of the most meaningful online friendships with these people because we share the same treatment history and have similar views and experiences with medicines. I think it's a very useful site for that purpose.Q
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