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Dec 17, 2015, 05:05 PM
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Can doctors give you a placebo without you knowing?
I'm just wondering if this is possible. I've been put on new meds and havent felt any different. My other meds seem to be working though.
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Dec 17, 2015, 05:08 PM
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I wouldn't think so, unless you're part of a study. I believe you would have to give your consent to be part of a study. I don't know when you started the meds but some of them take a long time to work. And then some just don't do anything for you.
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Dec 17, 2015, 05:24 PM
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My pdoc told me lamictal for instance will take a few months to fully kick in.
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Dec 17, 2015, 06:17 PM
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It's unethical for them to give a placebo without your knowledge. I was in a clinical trial for lamictal and I had to sign a lot of papers that I knew that I might be given a placebo during that phase of the study and that I understood that a placebo would not benefit my treatment etc. And then I got the mystery med and the first week did well and they thought I might have the real med and then it was blatantly obvious that I was on placebo. I barely made it through that phase of the study because my other meds weren't enough. But I did and then I got real lamictal and it was entirely different than placebo.
I've had meds that worked very subtly, they tend to work slowly and I don't notice anything and then one day I suddenly realize I'm feeling better. I can't think what meds did that to be honest but I know it has happened more than once.
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Dec 17, 2015, 08:55 PM
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It would only be legal if you were in a drug study.. Otherwise .. No they can not.
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Dec 17, 2015, 10:36 PM
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Thanks everyone!
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I'm on a mix of meds. Who knows at this pont..
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