you're quite right, john. i tried to point out that every patient is different and will potentially have a different response to any psychotropic drug from that of the average. the statement you quote refers to the average. you are obviously far from average.
in regard to miles's comment: as miles says, SSRIs do not effect "body chemistry" in general, at least that's what the research says. as the name implies, SSRIs reduce the body's "normal" uptake of serotonin. a newer group, called SNRIs (Serotonin and Noradrenaline Reuptake Inhibitors), exist but are not widely used as SSRIs. they both affect the neurotransmitter systems in your brain, it's believed, by increasing the activities of serotonin and, in the case of SSRIs, both serotonin and noradrenaline in the brain.
i tend to believe that anything effecting serotonin and/or noradrenaline uptake effects body chemistry to a degree; how it does this is another matter.
R
At 04:16 PM 7/29/2004, you wrote:
>What you wrote is accurate enough with the exception of the statement
>below. It is true generally but not absolutely. Depending on the AD about
>3 to 5 percent of patients may begin feeling some effects in as little as
>5 days. My own experience was 6 days in both instances when I "felt"
>something was terribly wrong with this treatment in my case. I quit both
>after less than 10 days. To continue the therapy any longer posed a much
>greater risk than its cessation. The chance of symptom relief was not
>sufficiently high enough to allow the continuation of the therapy when it
>had provoked such severe side effects as immediately as it did.
>
>John Thornton
>
>>it takes a few weeks for ADs to begin helping a patient because they must
>>accumulate in the body -- the liver to be precise. so, it takes time for
>>symptom relieve and side effects to emerge.
>>
>>
>>R
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