Tuesday, February 05, 2008
same pills different problems
I saw this in the NYTimes today; once I was able to navigate past all the election news. It caught my eye because a friend and I recently discovered this weekend that we are on the same antidepressant and neither of us was perscribed it for depression. In fact, we have two drastically different medical problems. Lets say his is of the kind described in this article. And mine is more like……. this. And his dose is about two and half times my dose!
As the article points out, people with low back pain are likely to be depressed so it is a bit of a gray area whether the antidepressants are prescribed for the pain or to stave off the depression. In the case of my medical issue, this article explains the brain-digestive system connection.
But why the large differences in doses?
