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Old Jun 20, 2017, 08:35 PM
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Even if you are admitted that could be a really good thing. Instead of going through months on a med only to find it doesn't work in IP they can increase your dose fast and so they'd be able to see if it was helping and try something else if needed instead of putting you through several more months of trial and error. I also think sometimes IP doctors sometimes can be more effective at looking at what you've been on and predicting what might work based on that since they see people failing on meds all day long every day. I know once my pdoc contacted my IP pdoc and asked about a treatment (we were considering ECT) and he was able to say that just based on how my symptoms presented he didn't think ECT would help me and recommended trying clozaril first. Clozaril is the drug that helped me finally and I've been on nearly everything at some point.
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