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[quote=Anonymous]I just wanted to echo that the genetic swab profiles for drug interaction are invaluable for anyone needing medication treatments.  So many of the challenges with mental health treatment come from experimenting with a medication, seeing if it works, seeing if it needs to be stronger, and then when you need to try an alternative, tapering down in one before gearing up in another.  It’s a hard, rocky process for the patient and their families as they go through that, sometimes over and over.  The genetic profile takes away almost all of that experimentation and helps the doctors prescribe the most potentially successful, least problematic medication right away at the most likely to be successful dose.  It can be expensive...it cost us $300 and that was with the insurance company covering the rest.  But it has been invaluable, and will be useful for medication prescriptions their whole life.  It covers a large number of drug families, particularly those covering mental health.[/quote]

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