Over the past 2 decades I've been trying various medications to help me w/ my long running major depression & crippling ADHD. And none have seemed to work.
Recently, the doctor I'm working w/ nowadays suggested that she's practically running out of options to offer me & that I should take a pharmacogenetics test to help her figure out what should she prescribe.
I took the (expensive) test and the results were eye-opening! The results came out a couple of weeks later w/ a detailed list of some few hundreds medications of various sorts (from pain killers to blood pressure control) along w/ their efficacy for my case. The physician's version also included a list of suggestions and alternatives for each medicine.
In my particular case, it essentially indicated that any medication that I had tried before was supposed to be either useless or to have limited impact on my body. That part is true.
Please note that I've only started a new set of prescriptions since a couple of weeks ago and as such can't really vouch for the accuracy of the suggestions.
I struggled a lot w/ myself to post something this personal. But I thought maybe there are people out there who've got no idea such tests exist and it might turn out to be helpful to some.
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Useful for anyone struggling to find meds which work, for any condition.
Here's hoping the cost of these tests drops enough that they can be run by default on any patient who has yet to be tested.
Maybe the data will eventually permit custom meds to be printed, but for now just happy you & your prescriber have clearer information to work with.