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Jul 06, 2015, 04:46 PM
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Has anyone ever tried to this in order to find what medications might be helpful for you? It seems like it could tell you the meds that you can tolerate and how to stay away from the ones that give awful side effects. Without all the guess work of try this or that med.
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Jul 06, 2015, 04:59 PM
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Several people on PC have written about it. You can probably find some threads about genetic testing for meds. Results seem to be very mixed from the anecdotal reports. What some reported is that even the meds on the preferred list they had trouble with while others that weren't supposed to be a best fit worked best. Personally, it kind of seems like a way to grab money from consumers since the results don't seem to pan out at this point to be terribly accurate in reality, but that is totally opinion on my part which you can feel very free to ignore
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Jul 06, 2015, 05:43 PM
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Oh I guess it could be helpful but I can't afford it anyway.
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Jul 06, 2015, 10:19 PM
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My opinion of this (my day job includes a professional knowledge of molecular biology and genetics) is that pharmacogenomics is very much at the research/basic science stage.
To my knowledge it has not yet yielded any reliable new therapeutic insights.
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