I take the anticonvulsant Depakote as a mood stabilizer and Valium for anxiety. I took the SNRI antidepressant Duloxetine for a while but stopped when I realized that I had been too depressed for too long for it to have been doing me any good. The commercially-available
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GeneSight Psychotropic is a genetic panel that provides information about genes that may affect a patient’s response to antidepressant and antipsychotic pharmacotherapy. According to the manufacturer’s website, following testing, the treating provider receives a report with the most common medications for the patient’s diagnosed condition categorized by cautionary level, along with a report of the patient’s genetic variants. Details are not provided about the algorithm used by the manufacturer to generate risk levels.
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Source: HMSA Policy on Genetic Testing for Mental Health Conditions, effective date 7/1/2015
This genetic panel could assess whether you would benefit from the most commonly-prescribed antidepressants.