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No option comes without a cost. The useful question is not which medicine has side effects, it is which side effects you could live with.
One drug may unsettle your stomach for a fortnight and leave your sex life alone. Another may be kind to the stomach and flatten desire for as long…
Raising a dose does not simply raise the benefit. It raises everything the drug does, including the parts nobody was asking for.
As the amount climbs, a medicine begins touching things it barely touched before, which is why new side effects can appear at a higher dose of…
A newer version of a familiar medicine is usually a tidier version rather than a leap, and tidier is still worth something.
Desvenlafaxine is venlafaxine after the liver has done its work, given directly. The point of that is fewer differences between people who process…
Most antidepressants share a family resemblance. Bupropion does not, so much of what you have read about the others simply does not apply to it.
It works on the systems carrying drive and alertness rather than on serotonin, which is why its effects, wanted and unwanted, sit at an angle to the…
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If you know something about a person's history that the prescriber may not, say it. A past eating disorder or a single seizure can change what is safe to prescribe.
Bupropion lowers the seizure threshold, and in someone who is purging, restricting or very underweight that risk climbs meaningfully. The therapist…