Posted by forgetful mary on March 7, 2006, at 19:29:41
In reply to Re: The 'new' Nardil » forgetful mary, posted by ed_uk on March 7, 2006, at 16:35:43
The numbers of people exhibitng similar symptoms which are not ascribed to other causes leads one to believe that is the case. If the drug is the same then why , oh why, did they make it with different excipients in the first place??? Was that just for the heck of it? Why are you so inclined to disbelieve the many people who know how the drug is supposed to work--and like myself had counted on it for 20 years. You can still believe it works for you without claiming to know what I feel and how my body reacted to the drug for so long I took it for granted. I hope for your sake that they do NOT choose to change the med that you count on to keep you alve and functioning at peak efficiency.Simple logic would presume If it ain't broke -don't fix it...
> >Well if I had known that they changed it appreciably maybe I wouldn't have had MRI's and other brain scans prompted by symptoms caused by the new nardil.
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> How do you know that such symptoms wouldn't have arisen even if you had continued to take the 'old' Nardil? It would be unwise to assume that Nardil was responsible.
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> >did I realize that the drug had even changed
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> The drug is the same as it always was: phenelzine sulfate. The pharmaceutical formulation changed, not the drug.
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> >apparently that placebo effect works even when you are clueless???
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> It is quite possible that many people are incorrectly attributing changes in their symptoms to the 'new' Nardil. This does not mean that the change in their symptoms was actually caused by the change in Nardil's excipients. On seeing the NPAC site, many more people may be encouraged to believe that the change in Nardil's excipients was responsible for their recent problems. This is not evidence-based medicine.
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> Ed
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