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You’re video is excellent and well detailed. Thanks for the time and effort put into this (please don’t have the microphone sensitivity so high that we hear your saliva and every swallow)
I am not a medical professional, but I am interested in this study as I am, Asso. Prof of Physics, My sister was schizophrenic, and treated with clozpine long time as per the doctor's advice. Then after she gets worse conditions of IVM, askesthia Dystonia.. etc complex IVM. Again the professionals were treated with the same drugs with dose change. They said that this was the main drug which had caused side effects of IVM. This is a story from 20 years ago. I study(try to understand) much regarding the matter. Finally, we gave up most of the medicine. At present she is in better condition. The IVM effect is also reduced to remarkable. We treated her in some traditional way. I found that most psycho-neuro drugs (long time, about 6 months to year)cause serious side effects.
They need to do 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 year follow ups. Robert Whitaker reports antipsychotics work better compared to non drug treatment for first 4 years. After that the general trend starts to slowly reverse itself overtime. There are several psychological and natural therapies plus spiritual practices that have shown themselves to be helpful for psychosis including social support and meaningful work. Add these unterventions into the non drug treatment group and things start to look alot more promising for them.
My son has schizophrenia and is on high dose, I am a physician myself and unable to get ECT. He is not doing well in spite of JD, MBA after him. Very symptomatic. Unabble to reach him, in his own world are the ways I describe him, has poor insight. Will ECT work. Please Dr. F respond to my question. Thanks.
Pills do not “treat” negative symptoms, there’s nothing to “lift”these are metabolic and mitocondrial dysfunction disorders of the brain and body. One new little drug that targets new mechanisms is a start but a pretty weak start. It is imperative that much better medications and brand new types of treatments are developed for all these people who have lost their lives and everything and everyone
@@spiralinandspiralout people want mono therapies, keto diet is a fantastic thing to add to other metabolic interventions. Keto doesn’t work by itself…people want legitimate treatments that target the debth and breadth of negative symptoms in schizophrenia
The fact of doing RADAR changed practice more than the results. The results show that gradual reduction of neuroleptics still increases the risk of relapse, as much as abrupt discontinuation. But doing the trial highlighted that neuroleptics are harmful and unpleasant drugs and that people should have a choice and the option to try and reduce or stop if they want to (as long as risks are not very high). And the majority of those who reduced or stopped did not relapse. Numbers were small but this shows relapse is not inevitable. But relapse is a risk and people need to know this as part of making informed decisions about their medication.
Does naloxone not also help repair Mu receptors, I have tried methadone because a girl gave me a bottle or some tablets but I do biochemistry the past 5 years, I wanna do drug discovery, methadone just made me throw up, also I love the thebain (dyslexia, wont give correct spelling) they are great at keeping the opium poppy compounds, I think of it as green chemistry, our biggest steps towards come on the type one civilisation, I could already be flying mecha through space if everyone stopped being assholes to each other, we could be having space wars instead.
I have been stable on lithium and Zoloft for years. my new Dr. stopped the lithium and started lamotrigine. I've had side affects and experienced symptoms with this drug. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
People aren’t recommending Ashton for long term users. Hyperbolic. Hopefully, you’re working with ASAM guideline updates. Most can’t get compounds. Please stop assuming. It’s frustrating and makes people feel defeated.
60 mg per day of dexamfetamine is a massive dose… 54 mg of MPH / day by osmotic release is a fairly low dose… Why would any non-injecting user of impure, nasty, street meth not stop immediately if provided with safely manufactured dexamfetamine tablets?
There is a feeling in emergency psychiatry that it is hard to jump to lithium right away in our homeless population because they are not eating and drinking and it is incredibly warm in some parts of the country. Can you comment on that? I do do lithium, but I know psychiatrist who are cautious to start it even when labs can be done.
I do not know why they recommend SSRI's for agitation in elderly when one of the side effects of this is that it causes people to be hostile. What has happened to our scientific community in this country? The older medications are far superior than the harmful destructive medications they are producing now. We use to be way more advanced than other countries.
