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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, peoples are really desperate defenders of SSRI's despite documented risk of suicide.  Not all people with depression get suicidal symptoms.  It takes a LOT to get the FDA to put this kind of warning on a medication.

I really wish people would look at the actual studies on SSRIs and see that they are only marginally effective for most people, and not effective at all for a lot of others.  I thought Prozac was a miracle cecause it made me feel substantially better pretty quickly.  Like an amazing honeymoon of non-depressed.  But then it didn't feel as effective and doubling, quadrupling, and adding another led to the dose did nothing except cause me to gain 80 pounds in 2 years.  But because the SSRI's blunted all my feelings, I didn't really even care.  I barely remember my SSRI years.  I wasn't depressed.  I wasn't anything.

After finally getting of SSRI's, I did a lot more research on them and I'm so angry that something with such marginal effectiveness but with so many catastrophic side effects is so commonplace.

My depression is in complete remission now for the first time in 30 years (I'm in my mid 40's) thanks to monthly IV infusions of ketamine.  I'm not on meds other than that, though I've recently adopted a ketogenic diet and that has improved my baseline mood as well.  Ketamine is dramatically more effective for most people than SSRI's and the event is felt the next day, not weeks after starting.  And aside from feeling dissociation during the infusion, there are no systemic side effects beyond the day of the infusion itself.  It's has been used in much higher doses as an anesthetic for kids for decades, so it has a great safety profile.  But most p-docs don't even know about it.  Why?  No big pharma involvement.  No sales reps giving them trips for
Prescribing it.  No big ad campaigns.  And essentially no big profit to be had, since its generic.

Big pharma is catching up now and developing 3 for profit meds that are derivatives of ketamine.  The FDA has given fast track approval for 1 because it is so promising.  But the original is more effective and has less side effects.

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Plenty of risks with ketamine - funny, you didn't mention any of them:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(15)00392-2/fulltext[/quote]

The article describes almost no side effects for non-recreational use of ketamine.  One that it does, a slight dissociative state while receiving the infusion, is thought by many to be important to its effectiveness.[/quote]

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