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Medical Forum / General / General / July 2007Can GPs prescribe placebos instead of SSRIs in the UK?
Can GPs prescribe placebos instead of SSRIs in the UK? I'm jsut wondering since i don't have the best relationship with my GP and this is the kind of tactic he would be likely to use since I had to beg him to get SSRIs in the first place. so noone knows the answer to this? Is that cos it's a dumb question or am I posting to the wrong group? I cannot find any uk nhs group On Jul 24, 11:23 am, dam...@gcoders.com wrote: > so noone knows the answer to this? Is that cos it's a dumb question or > am I posting to the wrong group? I cannot find any uk nhs group Have you tried to identify the pill itself? http://www.drugs.com/pill_identification_drug_picture.html > so noone knows the answer to this? Is that cos it's a dumb question or > am I posting to the wrong group? I cannot find any uk nhs group Of course it's a dumb question. How could the doctor do that without you knowing about it. Any intelligent person who knows how to use a computer can look at the Rx and tell what the drug is. And the doctor could lose his/her license for that, so why would any doctor do that. Duh. >Can GPs prescribe placebos instead of SSRIs in the UK? This wouldn't be ethical unless you were enrolled in an experimental study and informed that you might be assigned to a placebo group. >I'm jsut wondering since i don't have the best relationship with my GP >and this is the kind of tactic he would be likely to use since I had >to beg him to get SSRIs in the first place. SSRIs can take as long as 6 weeks to have an effect, and which SSRI works best (or at all) for a particular individual is very hard to predict. So you may have to be patient, and if this one doesn't work, you may need a higher dosage or a different SSRI. If you are on bad terms with your doctor, you'd be advised to find another one whom you can work with more effectively. many thanks for your responses it is very difficult to change GPs, they won't allow me to change within the surgery and the other local ones are fully booked and don't receive new patients. |
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