Posted by Racer on July 25, 2004, at 9:56:51
In reply to Re: 'Nother article, posted by SLS on July 25, 2004, at 9:29:07
That's the one I read before: I learned a lot from it -- although I can't remember it very well anymore -- but it finally explained the dexamethasone suppression test to me! All these years, now I finally understood it....
The DST, by the way, is sometimes used as a diagnostic aid in endogenous depression. Just learned that yesterday. I only knew of it as a diagnistic test for Cushing's, but since some people with depression test into Cushing's territory on cortisol levels, makes sense that they'd use the same test, huh?
Salivary tests for cortisol are pretty quick and easy, and I think rather cheap, too. I'm 98% certain there's no point bringing it up to Dr EyeCandy, but I'm going to talk to my next doctor about the whole thing. Are you finding anything to bring up with your doctor?
(And there was another article about psychodynamic perspectives on treatment-refractory depression; and one about non-compliance, and the importance of finding out *why* the patient was not complying -- you know, trying to find out if, say, sexual dysfunction might actually be an issue for a patient! What a novel concept! And -- really breaking new ground -- that addressing the side effects might improve compliance! The article actually said that, while one option was to wait and see if the side effects went away -- it was a BAD option, because they usually didn't and the waiting interfered with the doctor/patient relationship. Whoa! Why didn't anyone think of htat before?)
OK, 'nuf sarcasm there. Hope the links helped.
poster:Racer
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/2000/20040626/msgs/370256.html