[Moose72]

My Pdoc ordered this for me! Genesight.com

My psych nurse practitioner ordered a genetic test for me. It supposed to list all the psych meds you can and can't take based on your genes. It arrives in two days and takes them two days to analyze. Who knew they had such a thing?? It's $300 but free to those with Medicaid like me.

I'm still taking the Vraylar and the mouth movements have decreased thank goodness. The test results should be back before my next appointment on the 18th with my psych nurse practitioner.

It will list all the don't takes and all the takes in the results. I think it's very cool if it works!

[Yaowen]

Antidepressant seem to work on various system or combinations of systems: one in the norepinephrine system, one in the serotonin system, one in the dopamine system. Some antidepressant target two of the systems. Some target three systems. Some antidepressants work for reasons that are not clear.

So it is nice these tests exist. They might help to tailor treatment to what a patient really needs so there is not a need to go through the trial and error ordeal.

I am woefully ignorant about a lot of this, sadly.

I sure hope this test proves helpful to you. I would take this test but my antidepressant has worked for me for plus or minus 50 years.

[Victoria'smom]

I'm trying to get Victoria to take this.

[Moose72]

Once you mail in the sample it takes 2-4 weeks to get your results which they are sending to my psych np.

[bizi]

Abilfy made me manic. we did the test and it stated the abilify was not for me.
So she took me off of it.
so she was more or less convinced because of the test.
heavy sigh......
bizi

[Moose72]

Fed ex tried delivering my dna kit today but there was no apartment number on the package! Ugh so they're coming back Monday. I hope it's not when I'm in therapy!

[Moose72]

Picking it up tomorrow at a fed ex center. That way I can still go to therapy Monday.

[Moose72]

Picked it up at the FedEx center yesterday. Taking it with me to my appointment with Pdoc on Wednesday.

[Moose72]

The lab has my dna swabs now and I hope they are running their tests for lots of medications! I can’t wait to see which meds are in each zone- green, yellow and Red. Then there are numbers next to the med names that gets even more specific.

[MuddyBoots]

The Genesight testing provides a lot of solid information on genetic variations in regards to what genes metabolize certain meds (I hope I'm wording that right). I get the idea of "this med working by metabolizing through this method" and that method may or may not be ideal for the med being metabolized in a certain person, but I'm wondering what decerns "well" from "intermediate" to "poor." Everything in "well" is objectively better than "intermediate," but what makes the difference/where is the line between well and intermediate? Maybe it's some number of ways you metabolize matching with whatever drug and the cut off was arbitrarily chosen.

I don't really know much about genetics or how the genesight works other than comparing how a drug works to comparing how you metabolize substances, but I can't wait to see you post about what you get for results

[Moose72]

Thanks for that @MuddyBoots I can’t wait to see the results too!