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Re:Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax by pjc50 on Sunday June 11, 2017 @11:26AM (#14532288)
Over what kind of time period is that? You're definitely not supposed to change drugs every few months.

For me the scattershot approach is most alarming; it would be far better if there were some kind of in-vitro test to see what would be best rather than "suck it and see". I've seen a few other people have problems with that.

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Re:Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax by TeMPOraL on Sunday June 11, 2017 @11:40AM (#14532351)
From what I heard, it is this way because there is currently no better way of determining which psychiatric drug will work best besides going for trial and error.
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Re:Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax by bspn on Sunday June 11, 2017 @01:13PM (#14532759)
It's been over 2-3 years, but I would say on average her regime changes every 3-4 months. We saw another specialist recently who introduced us to a test that does a genetic screen to help identify what medicine should theoretically be the most effective. Here's hoping it works!

EDIT: the service is called GeneSight: https://genesight.com/

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