Posted by Bob on January 9, 2008, at 20:01:56
In reply to Re: Long Term AD data?, posted by bleauberry on January 9, 2008, at 18:11:46
> I think data longer than 1 or 2 years is not there. Even those 1 to 2 year maintenance continuation studies are very few.
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> The best data I've seen is real world stuff by real people at various websites where people rate their meds. I would say, roughly, maybe 10% of people continue to do well on their med for a very long time, like 10 to 18 years. Whether it be zoloft, nortriptyline, nardil, or whatever, there is a small minority of people who just stay well indefinitely as long as they stay on their med and don't change the dose and don't change the manufacturer of their med in the case of generic.
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> The other 90%, rough estimate, ran into poopout or other life problems anywhere from 3 months to 8 years, with a general trend for about 3 years. I haven't studied the responses, I am just going by rough memory of the hundreds of posts I looked at.
I can think of no one I know, or have personally heard of, who has stayed on one med for more than a few years. There is one case I know of a person who was on an AD for a few years (I think it was Paxil) and then switched to Zoloft, which they've been on for about 4 years maybe. That's a very long time IMO. The switch was somewhat traumatic for them.
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