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What's New at Crazy Meds

For all of our returning readers (ha!) I should probably include what I've been updating. Don't forget to hit refresh. Some browsers are picky about that sort of thing.

2/03/2010 -

Happy birthday Seb.
If I haven't written a real article about a med after six years (e.g. Dilantin, the individual benzodiazepines), who knows when an article for said medication will be written. As such I'm deleting the stub articles, associated PI sheets, and I'm in the process of removing links to them from most pages.
As I'm removing all those pages, I'm expanding / cleaning up pages about families of medications. E.g. the page on benzos. This is an on-going process. Real articles for additional medications may or may not be written in the future.
I'm removing broken links as I find them.
References to "the usual side effects" for anticonvulsants now link to the anticonvulsants side effects page, instead of the basic info about anticonvulsants page. Like they should have.
I'm also doing some miscellaneous cleaning up.

12/20/2009 -

It's "straitjacket" you moron, not "straight jacket." Someone is tightly (strait) confined when wrapped / encased (jacketed) in one. It is not a linear article of clothing. The Cafe Press store name and reference on the Mental Mall page have been updated.

12/05/2009 -

I did a minor update to the Abilify page and posted a new PI sheet for it, to reflect its recent approvals.
I also did a slightly less minor update to the Clozaril page and posted a PI sheet to replace the dead link, along with links to PI sheet equivalents and consumer information from Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Clozaril is being discussed more and more these days.
We now have a board for Schizophrenia and other conditions on the psychotic spectrum.

07/10/2009 -

The Crazy Meds Talk forum is back in action! In the nearly six years this site has been around this is the first time we've moved to a new server and managed to keep the forum relatively in tact. Yay! There are still a few kinks to work out - e.g. e-mail functions currently don't work, but at least I expected that one.

07/08/2009 -

We've moved to a new server. Yay! The forum software still doesn't work. Boo! Progress reports / status updates are posted on my blog. I don't know when I'll have this fixed. MySQL got pretty fucked up, and there may be more problems underneath that.

05/22/2009 -

Kit notified me of an error with the drug-drug interaction checker that's all over the place. For some idiotic reason I coded the link as a secure (https) connection instead of vanilla http. Maybe it was because you could create an account with your cocktail and check impending changes. As if anyone using Crazy Meds actually does that. It's difficult enough as it is to get 90% of the people on the forum to use that tool at all when asking someone to look it up for them is preferable. In any event that has been fixed.
Of course in fixing something like the above I do a mass find and replace, and whenever I do something like that a bunch of non-Roman fonts get clobbered for some reason. This is random-seeming, although almost anything in Korean, such as the link to Wellbutrin's Korean-language PI sheet, is always hosed. Due to problems covered on the Crazy Meds blog I've reached my limit for the day in how much I can write. Don't know when those will get fixed.
I had a really dumb-ass mistake on the Brand vs. Generic page where I confused bioequivalence with bioavailability. Of all the places it had to be right up on top where I explained how the standards in the Hatch-Waxman act applied. D'oh! While I was fixing that I expanded upon that explanation, and added a few more studies and what-not. I'm taking whatever opportunity I can to write whenever not threatened by an aura.
I corrected the bug with the donate button, i.e. you now go to a non-framed page, on a bunch of popular pages.

04/01/2009 -

Everything is completely updated with a new design and content...Who am I kidding. I thought I had fooled myself when I woke up at a decent hour and felt like fixing shit today.
There have been more shirts available at Straight Jacket T-Shirts for several months now. I've got close to 50 designs up. You're better off checking the Crazy Meds blog and/or the topic on the Crazy Meds Talk forum for shirt updates.
I know about that bug with the PayPal donation button on all of the non-forum pages. The reason PayPal hates me this time is they don't like to be framed. I'll be changing all the pages so they get their very own extra-special window to allow anyone who is sure they're still going to have a job over the course of this year (e.g. those who work for the unemployment office or in the foreclosure industry) to make a donation. See the page on how to support Crazy Meds for details on mailing cash, checks, etc. or helping in ways that don't involve filthy lucre.
As part of my program of giving in to giving up I'll no be teasing you with promises about the income and expenses of this site, like I used to be so good about up through much of 2005. My life is such a complicated disaster that I haven't been able to download my own financial information into Quicken since some time in 2007. All I know is I owe a shitload of money to banks who are in deep shit themselves. I'm part of the problem! YAY FO' ME!!!
As usual I'm saving the best for last. I've had to update the privacy policies, because Google will be offering anyone who visits this site a tasty cookie. One of those cookies that leaves a trail of cookie crumbs. So read up on it.

08/17/2008 -

There are now shirts available at Straight Jacket T-Shirts that don't suck as much as the original ones do. Twelve new designs, each with 25 combinations of colors and styles available. Just the thing for out-patient wear.

04/13/2008 -

Apparently my linking to Canadian pharmacies to provide documentary evidence of Canadian and other overseas prices of medications is a violation of PayPal's terms of acceptable use. Go figure. I can understand their not wanting to be involved in the sale of prescription meds over the Internet, but my linking to said pharmacies seemed a bit of a stretch. Whatever. So I had to go in and remove all those links, plus a bunch of ads that always came up for pharmacies. While I was on those fifty or so pages I cleaned them up a bit, and added the translator function, the bookmarking links and links to any boards specific to the meds in question. Plus I updated a couple here and there with some additional information I might have had off the top of my head.

04/09/2008 -

I added the Mental Health news feed from Dr. Grohol's site to the contents frame. So just keep scrolling down until you find it. Dr. Gohol's page opens in the contents frame, so just expand it to read. Deal with my crappy web design. A new page just for that feature didn't make any sense, and plugging it onto every page didn't either. I know I suck. Don't expect design improvements any time soon.
I've added a translator gadget to a variety of .shtml pages, e.g. Invega. So you're no longer a slave to Anglo imperialism. I tried out the French version, as that's the one language that I have the best chance of reading all of the text and understanding at least 80% of what I read, and am pleased with the translation. Not too much franglais, and only a few things that were lost. Fortunately all of the technical stuff seems to make sense. It's my ranting around the real information that goes into Dada territory. Some other European languages don't look too bad. As for the languages in non-Roman scripts, you're on your own. If and when I update other pages I'll try to add this gadget to them as well. No promises.

Try it, if you dare, on a page this huge:

03/12/2008 -

Do you know about that new analysis showing how antidepressants should be used only when people are truly, severely depressed, otherwise said antidepressants are no better than placeboes? You know, the sort of thing I've been writing about since this site began? Well guess what is being added all over the place? That's right, every time a page about an antidepressant (more-or-less) gets updated. And, of course, the page about antidepressants.
As numerous people pointed out I had an bout of induction / inhibition dyslexia when I initially wrote the Luvox page. I thought I had corrected that. Apparently not. It's corrected now, along with foreign availability names (in the future to be listed toward the bottom of the page or on the How to Buy page for all meds as updated), prices and something else I'll try to add to med pages: which generics have been rated as being within the 20% range of bioequivalence / bioavailability.
Updated Wellbutrin's overseas availability, added rated generics, but the pages bibliography back as it got clobbered at some point, updated sample costs, fixed the Korean font yet again, and copied the PI sheet locally as GSK Korea insists on moving it around.
Updated the bibliography to include the tasty 2007 edition of Mosby's Drug Consult I'm now using.

02/10/2008 -

Gung ho! Fat chance! Yeah, well, it's not like any of the migrant workers got to go home for the New Year's celebrations.
After, what, four years in the making - mostly my either doing other things or my life being fucked over one way or the other - Straight Jacket T-Shirts is finally up and running. So you can now buy yourself an over-priced shirt to support the site instead of just giving cash. As such I've made updates to the Mental Mall and begging pages.

10/12/2007 -

Using the current calendar Columbus landed on San Salvador on 21 October 1492. But only someone who is autistic would care about something like that.
I was looking into some stuff about brand and generic drugs with all of the complains regarding Teva's piece of crap Budeprion XL, and found that neurologists around the world really don't like generic anticonvulsants. So I've updated the Brand vs. Generics page with additional information regarding anticonvulsants and some other meds I've found. Plus a couple of studies that show some generics to be OK.
Ortho McNeil paid for a big-ass clinical trial using Topamax as a drug to treat alcoholism. Is there a new application awaiting approval just as Topamax's patent is soon to expire? Seems fishy to me. In any event I updated the Topamax page with information on that trial and some comments.

09/19/2007 -

I can't believe I forgot the drug-drug interactions link on the BuSpar and Invega pages. D'oh! That glaring omission has been corrected.
I've been adding boards. If you've been on the Crazy Meds Talk forum, you've noticed. If you haven't, you wouldn't know better anyway.
I've activated the Blog feature on the forum. Blogs are a great way to keep track of your progress on meds and stuff. That's also the place where everyone can get down with the tea and sympathy and other support-group like activities. As if enough sites weren't offering blogs, you can get one here as well. Whoopee!
There have been a couple more mentions of Crazy Meds in the legitimate media.
I'm trying to get some new content up. Really. It's just one damn thing or another.

09/07/2007 -

Fixed the problems with the Cyrillic, Japanese and Hebrew fonts on the Zyprexa and Risperdal pages. There was also a dead link to the Japanese PI sheet on the Risperdal page, and that has been replaced with a link to a consumer-oriented PMI shiori page.

09/05/2007 -

While adding boards for Abilify and Geodon (don't bother, the stubs of the pages suck), I noticed that the PI sheets were way out of date. I.e. there was nothing about their approvals to treat bipolar mania. Don't make me laugh! How much do you want to bet the participants in those studies were a bit on the depressed side and were all freaking happy to be taking those meds? Jeez Louise, Geodon is practically a combination antipsychotic and antidepressant along the lines of Cymbalta , and Abilify makes your D2 dopamine and 5HT1A serotonin receptors more sensitive to those neurotransmitters, so it's like a combination antipsychotic and variant on Remeron. Is it a wonder that a bunch of people who tend to be on the manic side of things get, what's the technical term, batshit crazy when prescribed either of these two meds? Especially when they are stupid enough to just whine about the depression they feel at the time they go into to see those doctors and those doctors don't ask about mania and give them Abilify or Geodon in combination with an antidepressant. In any event, here's Abilify's PI sheet and Geodon's PI sheet.

08/30/2007 -

Added a picture of what Lamictal-induced Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) actually looks like to the Lamictal page. I know it still won't keep people from asking, "Is this The Rash?" but it's worth a shot.

08/24/2007 -

I just had to update the Thorazine page because I was so pissed off after hearing a report on NPR yesterday. Aside from being two months out of date (Check the Risperdal page and see the approval dates for pediatric bipolar disorder and schizophrenia), American Psychiatric Association President Carolyn Robinowitz, M.D. said on Morning Edition that Risperdal was the first antipsychotic approved to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in children and adolescents. Ahem. Thorazine was approved to treat both in both decades before Risperdal even existed. Compazine was approved to treat pediatric schizophrenia since I was a kid, but only as a last resort. How sad is it when a Citizen Medical Expert such as myself has to correct the freaking president of the APA. Oh, wait, that's why all y'all read this site, isn't it?

08/20/2007 -

Sorry we were down for a couple weeks there. There were more problems with the domain registrar than I had anticipated. Details as usual at the blogspot page.
Anyway, the good news is: Ver. 9.0 of Crazy Meds Talk is up and running! Of course you'll have to reregister and all the posts have been lost because the previous domain host didn't give us enough time or bandwidth to let us download all of the files from the prior version of the forum after being so rudely expelled to appease a most ungrateful person with a personality disorder. Such is life.
The contents page has been reordered somewhat to reflect the popularity of various pages, in terms of both unique visitors and time spent reading the pages.

08/01/2007 -

Sorry we were down yesterday and that the Crazy Meds Talk forum has temporarily vanished. They whys and wherefores are explained on the blogspot page, crazy-meds1. Maddy and I hope to have the forum up and running in a day or three. Keep checking back here and/or on the blogspot page for details. A bunch of people are over at Crazy Boards for now. Just discuss meds, disorders and stuff over there please. There is no need to sully their site with all the trauma and drama inflicted upon us by people with nothing better to do than hurt others to try to make themselves feel better. If you need to vent about it, do so on my blog, but don't link to said blog from Crazy Boards. Thank you.

07/20/2007 -

I promised more new content. Thanks to girrl88 we have pages on Invega (paliperidone)! New content about a new med that isn't even that old. Sweeet.
How the hell could I have forgotten "Interesting stuff you doctor probably won't tell you about BuSpar"?
Found this article, which explains how the drug companies are able to fudge the numbers in their favor for the studies. I've added it to the page explaining my pages on drug efficacy.
While working on the Invega pages I figured I could make the section on how Risperdal works a bit clearer. You still have to scroll all the way to the bottom of an over-long page to find it, but that's something for later to deal with.

07/14/2007 -

Geez, I have been sleeping through Effexor XR's approvals or what? So the page is updated a bit, and is pretty much all about the XR version. The latest PI sheet is available for Effexor XR as well.

07/13/2007 -

Updated Wellbutrin's approvals to include Wellbutrin XL's approval to prevent seasonal major depression for people with seasonal affective disorder. That includes getting the latest PI sheet for Wellbutrin XL.

07/12/2007 -

Updated Risperdal's approvals to include pediatric schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Not that we deal with kids here, but an approval is an approval. I also fixed the screwed up katakana on the Risperdal pages and added links to Russian and Arabic PI sheets. I think all of my non-Latin fonts got hosed during a Front Page hiccough followed by a mass update. The errors are now being fixed as I come across them, as I originally thought it was just a browser error on my end.
Corrected some grammatical wackiness that was an artifact from a previous version of the benzodiazepines page.
As mentioned in the update of 5 July, I needed a hall of shame. Presenting Crazy Meds' Copyright Violators' and Plagiarizers' Halls of Shame. As Copyscape and I find them, the better examples of both types of intellectual property theft will be presented as I deal with them. Not-so-egregious cases that are quickly resolved will never show up here.

07/06/2007 -

Updated the Lexapro page with a whole bunch of international PI sheets.
Also found some Topamax, Prozac and Paxil.
Fixed and/or added the names of medications in non-Western fonts. Now a bunch of question marks shouldn't appear. At least they look fine now.

07/05/2007 -

Updated the Zoloft page a bit, as the discussion about its effect on dopamine reuptake inhibition came up yet again.
The intellectual property theft is getting out of hand. Not just with the couple of annoying thieves I've had to deal with of late. I've had people on various fora copy an entire page here and there, often with credit, sometimes not. People on boards do that to everyone, big and small, so I would shrug it off. But I'm now seeing all sorts of wholesale copying done of entire pages that goes beyond the lack of credit. Oh no, the pages with all of my content are presented as if written by people involved with various sites without a forum or on a non-forum part of the site. So I'm protecting the site via Copyscape. Thus banners of diverse sizes like this:

I may have to set up an intellectual property theft hall of shame, in addition to the legal notices that will be sent out.

07/03/2007 -

Finally, new content! Jessica sent in some information on BuSpar and once the stress of having to micromanage the overly-complicated life of an utterly ungrateful person was lifted, I could put the new data into our spiffy new format. So here they are, BuSpar pages! Yay! Coming soon, Invega.
The bibliography has a new look. At this point it's become easier just to show you the source material than to list it all.

07/02/2007 -

Sorry, the blog entries had to be removed. Don't worry, I just moved them to my new blogspot page, crazy-meds1. Just when I thought I could work on some content because I had grown tired of swatting at gnats. It was just a typical Scientologist-like move on their part.

06/20/2007 -

Life gets in the way of my providing new content. I have to beg for money again. See the page on supporting Crazy Meds for the sordid details. I am working on content provided by a couple of readers. Slowly but surely. OK, slowly and erratically.
The guestbook is gone. Apparently some sad people selling counterfeit watches and drugs think that spamming guestbooks repeatedly is a good way to drum up business. Especially when they spam said guestbooks to the point of breaking the guestbooks in question. Kind of self-defeating when you think about it. In any event I don't know if I'll have another one available.

05/01/2007 -

Happy May Day.
Stand up, all victims of oppression,
For the tyrants fear your might!
Don't cling so hard to your possessions,
For you have nothing if you have no rights!
I feel like crap, so I work on stats. I swear there's going to be new content real soon now.

04/27/2007 -

I finally hired some people to take care of the chores around here.
It looks as if the old guest book is full. Once again no one bothered to tell me. And I'm supposed to know these things on a huge site like this no matter how often I write that I'm overwhelmed. So there is now a [New Guestbook].
We've received a buttload of publicity lately, directed towards doctors and the suits in the pharmaceutical industry. So our page of media mentions has been updated.
Thanks to the above I have a new title, "Citizen Medical Expert." And we are now a site full of bull....Uh, "User Generated Media." As for the former, my title on the Crazy People of Crazy Meds has been updated. I've done the same on the Crazy Meds Talk forum. I'll wait a bit before getting new business cards, as I'm mulling over the idea of putting letters after my name. Jerod Poore, CME, Q.B.E.
I've also added a few additions to our page of ratings and reviews.
And one more thing you can do to support us, adding us to social bookmarking sites.
Honestly, some new content is on its way.

02/26/2007 -

Last time I updated the Support Crazy Meds page, I left out our mailing address. D'oh.
On that page I've added the quick'n'dirty version of writers' guidelines, as I am desperate for content. Here they are again:

We need content. Lots and lots of content. Our lives have become rather overwhelming of late, which is why the site has become so freaking moribund. If you have experience with a medication where we have a truly shitty page left over from the original 2003 edition of "The Poppin' Zits! Consumers' Guide to Psychiatric Medications" (e.g. all of the benzodiazepines and MAOIs we have covered, most of the stimulants), drugs that are flat-out missing (e.g. Lyrica, Emsam), or drugs not available in the United States (e.g. Sabril (vigabatrin)) we can use a write-up. I've been meaning to do a writers' guide for some time now, but here's the short version:

It doesn't have to be in HTML, plain text or MS Word works for me.
My preferred format is always under construction. It's not like the drug companies have a standardized PI sheet. Take a look at the not-yet-finished updated How to Read Our Drugs Pages and the Seroquel page for the sort of content I'm looking for. Don't worry about stuff like the drug-drug interactions, the disclaimer, ads and stuff like that. I'll deal with such things.
I do require cites for any claims. Personal experience and anecdotal evidence (i.e. stuff you've picked up from support groups and support sites on the internets) is all well and good, but we also need things you get out of books and from reputable online sources like the ones you'll find on my page of online sites we use. Wikipedia isn't a good single source. They don't even have the balls to come out and name Crazy Meds as a source, even when they do mine us for a bunch of data for their own drugs pages. Just check out their Lamictal page and compare it with ours. Check their footnotes and compare them with our sources. Then scroll all the way down to the very bottom. Sometimes we're mentioned on external links as a "consumer-run psychiatric drugs information site." Sometimes the link is removed entirely. You'll find the differences on the discussion and history pages. It's the same on other drugs pages there. That's wikireality for you.
I pay royalties for articles. You'll get one half of the advertising revenue for each page. The page must generate a minimum of $50 of revenue before you'll get a check for $25. If the page generates more than that in a month, with luck you'll get a check that much. I can't promise timeliness, given the chaos that is my life at the moment.
Also I can't always put something up quickly, so ask if there's an article waiting to be published. I can let you know if someone is working on something. I have no deadlines, given that some of my truly craptastic paragraph-long pieces have been up for almost four years now.

11/15/2006 -

For all of my fellow stats whores, I've finally updated the statistics pages.

11/14/2006 -

I've added some cites and cleaned up some of the lists of off-label uses, approvals and crap like that on the Paxil and Zyprexa pages.
There were broken text-based links all over the place to the books I used. I've corrected a lot of those.
I've added an entire page of sites with more information about schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and schizotypal disorder. Although there is a dearth of information out there on the last two. I do the best I can on sites I can find with information for the people who actual have the conditions, and not all those bullshit "family, friends & caregiver" sites that are ever so popular in those spectra of the mentally interesting community.

10/20/2006 -

Mike noticed that in my recent updating of PI sheets I forgot the latest & greatest of US Cymbalta sheets, so he sent me one. Thank you Mike for going above & beyond!
Oh and thanks a whole fucking bunch to everyone out there making their passive-aggressive comments all over the place about the difficulty in navigating the site. You know, one of you could have told me that instead of opening up in the frame on the right when you click on a link in the contents frame on the left the page just fills up the entire screen. Seems this is a bit of Firefox weirdness involving the naming standards in the HTML coding. No big deal to change it, I just didn't know it was happening. But no, seems it better to trash the site elsewhere in meaningless sentences where I'm supposed to find your bitching and infer what the problem is, instead of telling me directly in ways I'd eventually figure out. So after three fucking years that bug has been fixed. Hope you're all happy now. Oh wait, I'm sure the passive-aggressive complainers would rather hang out on enabling support groups making sure that they spend their lives complaining about how awful things are instead of doing something to make them better.

10/12/2006 -

Sorry, I've been overwhelmed lately.
I'm finally making enough money via ad revenue to stop begging for money. So the donation button is starting to come off of all the pages around here. It'll be a process, but the button will vanish eventually. Except on Crazy Meds Talk, where donations help to pay the moderators.
Along those lines the old donations page is pretty much a guide to supporting us without spending a dime.
I hope to update the financials page. I'm probably just going to provide quarterly numbers. Not that I'm all that up to speed on the quarterlies. I also need to recalculate ad rates for fixed banner ads.$25-$300 a month is now looking more like $40-$700 a month.
StrungOutOnLife has provided me with a buttload of overseas PI sheets. So you'll notice a whole bunch of those added all over the place.
There have been several new approvals (e.g. Risperdal for autism in children), so I've updated a bunch of meds to reflect that. Comments and the like may or may not have yet caught up to the approvals, but I think I've go all the new PI sheets.
We were mentioned in PC Mag. See the In The News page for details.
Yes, I finally got rid of that broken link on the valproate page.
A whole bunch more little errors, formatting changes, references as to where I got some of my data and the like have been updated all over the place over the course of the last two months. But since Provigil and Strattera decided they didn't like to play together in my liver, it's all I can do some days to make a change on one page.

05/20/2006 -

small noticed that on the anticonvulsants page entry for Depacon it reads: "(valproate sodium or valproate sodium depending on the literature you read)." D'oh! That has been corrected to valproate sodium or sodium valproate.
Added a link on the Weight Loss page to a review of studies finding all sorts of adverse reactions to magic herbal concoctions that promise fast weight loss with "no side effects." I guess death isn't considered a side effect. Most of them failed in another study I found.
Glen pointed out that the study I had on the lithium orotate page regarding inconsistent lithium amounts in the pills was most likely about lithium carbonate, in spite of my entering "lithium orotate" into PubMed's search box. Grrrrrrrr. So I've replaced that study with a lamer review about not being able to trust supplement labeling in general, and moved the study onto the real lithium page.
And since I was there, I added a bit about how Topamax (topiramate) also screws with serum levels, updated the information about how lithium works in your brain, and solidified the chances of its working.
Tracked down a few more off-label uses of Cymbalta (duloxetine hydrochloride), as well as some studies regarding how well and how quickly Cymbalta will work and comparing Cymbalta with other meds. As to precisely how Cymbalta works, beyond the standard serotonin & norepinephrine reuptake inhibition, so far your guess is a good as mine. Unless you want to know how it stops ladies from tinkling when they are stressed out. They've got that one figured out up the wazoo.
I've decided to add links to Drug.com's advanced patient information sheets. Don't let the word "advanced" fool you. They are more advanced than the basic "shut up and take your meds" sheets many HMOs hand out these days, but are simpler than the full-on PI sheets. I'm also adding links to Wikipedia entries for medications and askapatient.com ratings, if they exist. These will be added as I update various pages for whatever reasons.
And, if I'm really up to snuff, I'm updating the sample costs of meds.
Bryan noticed that I still had a buttload of lysdexic "topriamate" entries as the generic name for Topamax (topiramate). That's what happens when I'm not paying attention and tell the spell checker to add a word.
We've got some new books in our bibliography.
Someone listed Crazy Meds over at Dr. Grohol's awesome Psych Central under Medication Resources. Go Team!
You can rate how helpful this site has been yourself, so if you would be so kind to do so:

04/30/2006 -

Once again the drug companies, they can't seem to leave those PI sheets in the same place. So the link to the Provigil PI sheet has been updated.
In a similar vein, cadplumber found that MedLine didn't like having their pages framed by other sites. I can't say that I blame them. That did require me to update a shitload of pages so any links to MedLine pages would just replace whatever window you have open. Open a new window you might say? Pop-up blockers often have issues with that.
And when I was in those pages, I thought I'd tweak a few things to make searching easier.

04/23/2006 -

Happy Orthodox Easter.
Mania & StrungOutOnLife noticed that a couple of my links to various metrics used to rate patient looniness and subsequent drug efficacy were broken. In the course of fixing those I found others. So I decided to just bring in house as many copies as I could of things like the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale.
Subsequently the page explaining the sections on how well drugs work and how drugs compare to each other has been updated, as well as various other pages that reference those metrics. Funny thing why the drug companies love using the MADRS and HAM-D tests during their clinical trials for FDA approval. Seems that either, especially MADRS scores improve regardless of the antidepressant used.
And as I couldn't find a stable location of the Manic State Rating Scale, I just whipped up a page for it myself.
I'm not sure if the new version of the Young Mania Scale mentioned in the update of 8 April is permanently gone, or if it's just a hiccough happening today. I'd hate to go back to that shitty photocopied version I referenced before. Then again, the test is such a piece of shit it would be apt.

04/21/2006 -

I was answering a really weird question about a freaky, but not all that rare, Topamax side effect when I happened to notice that the PI sheet I had up was out of date. Thanks, Ortho-McNeil, for keeping an old one hanging around at the Topamax for Epilepsy site for a few months. We now have their environmentally correct, eye strain-inducing version that condensed 35 pages of information into seven pages. With additional information about the approval for migraines included.
Along the same lines I put up the most recent version of the Strattera PI sheet, and added some comments of my own on the Strattera page regarding the black box warning on pediatric suicidal ideation and the warning about reports of rare liver failures.
There was some fine-tuning regarding steady states and drugs with short half-lives. That shows up on the page on how to read our drug guides and on the above-mentioned Strattera page.

04/08/2006 -

Teri in Los Angeles found a way better version of the Young Mania scale. Thus I've made updates to my drug guide, and the appropriate sections of the Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa pages.

04/06/2006 -

I've finally made some long overdue updates to the statistics and reviews pages.
Which, of course, requires some minor changes on the advertising policies page.

04/05/2006 -

Our fame spreads far and wide. Thus another listing on the Crazy Meds In The News page.

04/04/2006 -

Joe Apology let me know about his site, in the mold of the late lamented Mr. Apology, that now replaces the long-broken link on the Walking Away from Mania / Staying on Your Meds in 12 Easy Steps page. And, as I was there, that page has been given a bit of a makeover. I've been meaning to give that page an update in contents and an extreme makeover for some time now. A lot of people have been having trouble "getting" it. I guess I'm having a hard time making my take on existential psychology clear enough. Time to break out the R.D. Laing again. Plus it needs to be way less bipolar-centric. That will have to wait until another day.
StrungOutOnLife found where those crafty French moved the Epitomax PI sheet. So the Topamax page has been appropriately updated.

03/26/2006 -

Thanks to Arnold for noting how I conflated the generic names for Celexa and Lexapro on the table of contents. D'oh!
Thanks to Dr. Bruce Black for pointing out a key bit of data, which should have been really obvious. If a drug has a half-life of six hours or less it will never reach a steady state. Especially if you take it only once a day. Dr. Black noticed this on the Strattera page, which I've updated. I've added this to the page where I explain pharmacokinetic information on our drug guides. As I come across other pages where meds have short half-lives, I'll update them as well. Thanks again, Dr. Black!
And while we're getting to helpful people in the medical profession, a long-ass time ago Dr. Steve the urologist noted that my advice on drinking cranberry juice as a method to help prevent kidney stones that may develop with Topamax is actually counterproductive. Turns out that cranberries are a high oxalate food. Not as bad as some, but bad enough if you were drinking the juice like I was. And instead of updating the page immediately I wanted to wait until I gave the page the makeover I had been planning. Which keeps getting pushed back. So I suck for leaving some bullshit misinformation up there to make things worse for all y'all.
And since I was on the Topamax page I updated the information regarding its new approvals for migraines and monotherapy to treat generalized and partial seizures, because who knows when I'll finish the multipage edition I've been working on.
We could all use more support. There's always more information to be had. Specifically more links added to the Bipolar Support Groups, Self Injury Support Groups, Miscellaneous Support Groups, More Information about Bipolar, More Information about Panic & Anxiety Disorders and More Information about Miscellaneous Disorders pages. Thanks to everyone who sent me the links to sites I've listed. Sorry that it has taken forfreakingever to get some of these listed.
I've caved to SNRI meaning Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors. So I'm just calling Strattera and reboxetine NRIs, despite their selectivity. Hence the renaming of the old SNRI page to NRI.
I've thus had to update the page on multiple reuptake inhibitors. I'm not changing that term, dammit! Because Effexor also hits dopamine, hits the neurotransmitters based on dosage, and Wellbutrin doesn't do anything with serotonin.
Truthiness? You want truthiness? Take a look at what I wrote back in 1996. That's what I mean by "Everything is true, nothing is permitted." OK, truthiness is pithier, which is much better. Plus my manifesto back then was written is a mixed state, so it sucks.

02/05/2006 -

I've fixed some more broken links. Thanks to StrungOutOnLife et al. for finding a bunch of these.
While there I added some information about Equetro to the Tegretol page, as they are essentially the same medication.
Added a link to The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders to the contents frame, in case you come across a term you don't understand and need some more information than provided by Medline's Online Medical Dictionary or Online Medical Encyclopedia.

01/24/2006 -

I've fixed some broken links. I hope this makes navigation less of a pain.
You may have noticed a change in the ad color scheme. The original one was starting to bug me.

01/14/2006 -

The people have spoken. In an attempt to make the site marginally more navigable, I've reorganized the table o'contents page over on the left to reflect pages & categories by popularity. I've pretty much given up on grouping meds by sub-categories.
The updates continue with the download availability.

01/12/2006 -

It's all about the Monet. I've been adding ways we can help each other by ever so mercenary means, by adding Firefox downloads and referrals to the Google AdSense program throughout the site. See the Spazzsoft page for details on the software and the advertising policies page regarding the Google referrals.

12/08/2005 -

Thanks to StrungOutOnLife for finding out that Nootropil is no longer available as a brand, so the link to the generic SPC sheet is now on the anticonvulsants page.

12/07/2005 -

Thanks to Carla for pointing out that a bunch of stuff from the Zyprexa Dosage page made it onto the Seroquel Dosage page, regarding how long it takes for the meds to start working. D'oh! That has been corrected.
And, just to make it more fun, there were some bad links on the Zyprexa pages. I found those myself.
While I was there, I moved the navigation links for Zyprexa, Seroquel, Risperdal, Cymbalta & Adderall to above the main text. I hope that makes things easier for all y'all to get around.

12/06/2005 -

OK, there's yet another forum up. Crazy Meds Talk is up and running. More or less. There are a few bugs and not all of the boards are up, but it's good enough for now. If I waited until it was perfect I'd never have it done.
We've had yet another media mention of the site.

11/21/2005 -

A link to Kassiane's site, Rett Devil, has been added to the Autism and little bit of everything support group pages. Because we finally got the forum more-or-less up and running over there.
I hope to have cleared up some of the confusion that panic and anxiety really are two different things, in spite of the DSM classification, on the panic & anxiety support and information pages.

11/19/2005 -

The temporary, quick'n'dirty version of Crazy Meds Talk is now up and running. As this is just the new forum's temporary home, don't expect anything you post there to be transferred to permanent home.

11/12/2005 -

As the old Crazy Talk forum didn't make it over in the transition to the spiffy new domain host, all references to it have been removed.

11/09/2005 -

Thanks to Kerri for noticing that the links to my blog broke on the transition to the new domain host. They're fixed now.

11/03/2005 -

The move to a new domain server finally happened. Sorry for any inconvenience in the site being down.
Crazy Meds is no longer associated with Crazy Boards. Kassiane is working on a site, Rett Devil, to help people with various movement and neurological issues. Especially parents of children with such disorders.

11/01/2005 -

The move to a new domain server is being made difficult by our current domain server, 1 and 1 dot com. This is not unexpected, given the numerous issues we've had with them over the past two years. Stay tuned for more details as they develop.

10/27/2005 -

Crazy Meds is moving to a new domain server. Expect the site to be down temporarily during the move. We'll probably be doing this over the weekend, but may do it sooner. Thank you for your patience.

09/24/2005 -

Read this to get an idea as to why the pointy-haired things are going to be perpetually late, why site updates will be few and far between for the foreseeable future, and why said updates are pretty much going to be mainly pointy-haired things when they do happen.
The August financials have been updated for both Crazy Meds and Crazy Boards.
I've tweaked the donations page a bit, and updated the similar page for Crazy Boards.
Placeholder listings on the table of contents have been removed because there's no telling when I'll be getting around to writing those articles now. Sorry.

08/19/2005 -

As promised, I've updated most of the site stats. I'm still behind on a few things.
I've finally got all the site information up about Crazy Boards.

08/14/2005 -

Finally, some new content. Thanks to Kassiane we have new pages on Keppra. Those are also the first pages in our styling new format. So please take a look at Kassiane's favorite anticonvulsant of all time.
We also have a couple new entries in our bibliography.

08/04/2005 -

Wow, six weeks since the last update. Sorry. Seizures, new meds, Crazy Boards issues, the usual sob story.

So, do you think I've updated anything useful to all y'all? Of course not! Nope, it's all pointy-haired crap. The site financials, the dénouement of the fundraiser for Kassiane and Navy on the donation page, more reviews (hey, if we're hated by both the fearmongers and the pharmaceutical reps, we must be doing something right), a brand new page of media mentions & references to Crazy Meds, and a long overdue update to the Know Your Sources page reflecting our HONCode accreditation.

I'm still working on an update to the site stats.

OK, I'll throw you a bone. I added a link to a support site for body dysmorphic disorder.

06/15/2005 -

Added some information about pancreatitis to the page on long-term use of atypical antipsychotics.
I've split up the page on choosing a pharmacist, spinning off the sections about Internet pharmacies & Medicare discount drug cards.

06/14/2005 -

Happy Flag Day.
Thanks to Liz for finding some broken links on the pages dealing with Atypical Antipsychotics. They've been fixed. As has the same error on a few other pages.
Greg also found a broken link to the Abilify PI sheet. I fixed that and added links to the UK SPC and PIL pages as well. One of these days Abilify will get an extreme makeover.
Do you need more support? OK, I've added a couple more support sites. One each to the pain and panic pages.
And if you need more information about sleep disorders, well I don't have enough sites for just that, but I found one. That's not really about sleep disorders per se, but actually has good information for people with sleep disorders. So it's up on the page of sites with more information about all sorts of brain cooties.
To put you in a really good mood, I've added some more information about smoking and SUDEP. Happy reading on that one.

06/12/2005 -

Since we're now HON Code compliant, I've decided to put that up on all the pages as I update the navigation.
I'm still updating navigation, so plenty of pages will have recent updates to their timestamps.
I've moved everything related to our advertising policy to one page. So you don't have to wade through the financials page to find it.
More Depression Support Groups have been added.
A new, truly geeky research site has been added.
I've made a few tweaks to the Zyprexa (olanzapine) pages to clear up some stuff about its usage.
I've also made it clearer that dosage equivalents are good only for starting dosages. Nothing is linear in the world of the mentally interesting.
As well as tweaking navigation, or whatever, I'm also fixing the error I made in translation between PIL and SPC sheets at the electronic Medicines Compendium. I put up SPC sheets (Summaries of Product Characteristics - the UK equivalent of US PI sheets) and identified them as PI sheets. That's confusing for readers in the UK. The PIL (Patient Information Leaflet) is more like the "advanced patient information" sheets that are starting to come out here - simpler than the "prescribing information" sheets, but vastly better than the "basic patient information sheets" (a.k.a. the "Shut up and just be a good boy/girl and take your pill sheets") handed out by most HMOs. Sorry about that.

06/08/2005 -

You need more information, you got it. Specifically a link to another page with Social Security information on the Not Otherwise Specified page.
I added some more information on how to deal with weight gain from medications. Meridia and Zyprexa, there's a cocktail that no one in their right mind would have imagined.

06/04/2005 -

You really don't know what's been going on in my life. Then again you probably do. Maybe the blog will get updated one of these days.
Hey, we're now officially HON code compliant.
Crazy Boards has now replaced Crazy Talk as the Crazy Meds forum. Please adjust your bookmarks. Crazy Talk is still available for read-only purposes as we port over pertinent posts. Hence the updated timestamp on practically every page.

04/23/2005 -

I've added a page on Pill Identification sites. In case you need to know what the hell those pills are.
I've added a couple more sites with information about meds. I wanted to add even more, but the three anticonvulsants I'm on are just dragging me down like you wouldn't believe.

04/20/2005 -

Something I forgot yesterday - I had bit more information on grapefruit products and CYP450 3A4 isozymes to add to the Basic Information page. So if all y'all want to get specific on which meds are OK to mix and which aren't, you can. Otherwise, keep it simple and avoid that vile stuff all together.

04/19/2005 -

Being on three anticonvulsants has kind of caught up with me. On the plus side - not much in the way of mood swings or nasty seizure activity. The down side - I am so fucking tired all the time. I'll try to have more updates as I adjust to the new meds. That may be a couple more months folks, so bear with me.
Mr. Gross noticed that my link to the Remedy Find rating for Geodon has been pointing to a Lexapro rating since forever. I blame being an idjit on neuroleptic meds for that one. It's finally fixed.
It looks like Psychopharm Bulletin is off the air. Dammit. So the history of Valproic Acid on the valproate page is now presented in short form. Sorry about that.
I'm really sorry about the wacky color scheme that came up with the Google search. Until I had to use it on a page I had no idea that you had to select the non-default scheme to get something that wasn't freaky. Suck-ass quality control that time.

04/04/2005 -

I thought I got rid off all of the annoying redirects to Alexa pages before you went to off-site sources. "Wrong again, dipshit." They should be all gone this time.
The Gabitril (tiagabine) page has been updated a bit to reflect the FDA & Cephalon finally coming around to what I've been telling all y'all for over a year now - it can cause non-convulsive status epilepticus. when there has been no prior history of status before. The latest PI sheet is included as well.
I'm also starting to include the Google search bar on more pages. Hope you all like it.

04/03/2005 -

I wrote up the weird-ass seizure thing in my blog after all.

04/02/2005 -

For once I'm on time with the latest financial information and site statistics for the previous month. I'd have had these up yesterday, but a morning doctor's appointment, late-afternoon seizure and recalcitrant domain host all conspired against your need to know. The seizure thing was weird. I may or may not write it up later.
Just a minor tweak clarifying ad policies.
Keeping you up to date with the numbers for the Kassiane & Navy trust fund on the donations page.

03/28/2005 -

I'm continuing to add to my list of online research sites, as I swear I'm going to roll up my sleeves and update med pages Real Soon Now.
If you need more information then you've got sites with more information.
So interested in our lives you are. OK, so more Crazy People you can learn about.
I've updated the Cylert (pemoline) page with new information about Abbott pulling out of the stimulant market. The Desoxyn (methamphetamine) and ADD Meds / CNS Stimulants pages got tweaked a bit along the same lines.
Updated the Zonegran PI sheet to a local reference, as those bastards at the drug companies keep moving them around. Thanks to everyone who let me know about that one.
Fixed a bunch of hinky links to the home page.

03/23/2005 -

Added a few tidbits to the Remeron page. As well as corrected some bits I had mistyped that resulted in contradictory information on receptors being stimulated or inhibited on different parts of the page. D'oh!
Also added a few links on the SUDEP page, always fun to work on that one, for information on things like epilepsia partialis continua and, no, the prisons aren't full of people with epilepsy.
I've updated my list of online research sites, as I've been getting back into the research groove.
Yes - I've finally did a little work on what far too many of you have been nagging me about - The Crazy Meds' Guide to Which Drugs You Should Be Taking. Don't get too excited. There's still a shitload of work that needs to be done on the entire concept of our own algorithms. But you can look these things up yourself if you need some more detailed answers. And if all y'all keep nagging me about it, then it's just going to take longer to finish.
And I'm still updating navigation and disclaimer stuff. So no real content is changing on many, many pages. But the timestamps are being updated. And it should be easier to get around the site for everyone still living in the 1990s who still refuses to enable frames on your browsers.

03/22/2005 -

Continuing the addition of new information here and there, I've made some updates to the NRI page.
As well as the page dealing with multiple reuptake inhibitors.
Continually updating the log of my meds.

03/21/2005 -

Boy am I loving Trileptal. I haven't felt this good since I was taking Strattera.
Updated the page on stimulants / ADD / ADHD meds. Including documentation on why you shouldn't mix orange juice with them, so all y'all out there on other fora can rest assured that there are reasons why. Since the drug companies were nice enough to eliminate that warning from the newer PI sheets.
Because you need more support, we keep finding more support.
Updated and put my Suckassi Yoga Manifesto on the Blog Index.

03/20/2005 -

I'm expanding the navigation panel, so I'm putting it on a bunch of pages. Some of this is automatic with .shmtl files. Some of it is manual.
More pointers for people investigating old-school meds. Specifically MAOIs and TCAs.
Added some more resources on the Find a Doctor page.

03/19/2005 -

Keeping you up to date on the condition of the Kassiane and Navy fund at the donations page. Plus more details as to the sort of non-cash contributions I enjoy.
You want to know about Crazy People, we've got crazy people.
And thanks to one such, specifically Trusted Minion groovyone, I've added some new information to let you compare and contrast antidepressants (including SSRIs), benzodiazepines, antipsychotics (both standard and atypical) and anticonvulsants (but used only as mood stabilizers).
But for people in Epilepsyland I have added some additional information about the uses of anticonvulsants for specific forms of epilepsy, as well as bipolar. Including some very off-label uses of non-traditional meds for anti-epileptic purposes on the main anticonvulsants page.

03/16/2005 -

New blog entry. Car crashes along with the etiology and pathology of Uberspazz Epileptic Syndrome.
In case you need them, there are more listings of support group sites and sites with more information.

03/13/2005 -

Ugh. Kassiane and Navy managed to come up for an uberspazz convention. Unfortunately it didn't end well. I mean we had a lot of fun, especially when we had synchronized seizures and all. However on the way back to their respective homes they managed to get themselves into a bit of a car crash near Spearfish South Dakota. As of 13 March 2005 they are stuck there and trying to get home. I've set up a fund for them. Read all about on the donations page. Updates on their progress are being posted in a topic on Crazy Talk.
To note where you want your donations to go, I've had to make a change on the donation button, thus you'll see an update to the timestamp on practically every page on the site. Along those lines I think found the bug on some of the pages as to why you'd get lost in the maze of PayPal when it was clicked.

03/11/2005 -

You've asked for it. Well, a bunch of you have. I've updated my blog because my life has sucked lately. There, get your schadenfreude rocks off. Oh, and I've put it in a new format to make it easier to digest, with a few entries at a time instead of one huge blast of uberspazzdom.

03/06/2005 -

Can you believe it? I'm updating pages left and right with links to my blog and what did I do? I linked to the old version! Am I an idjit on neurological meds or what? Copy'n'paste madness, meet Topamax. So the last update timestamp will show yesterday's date on a shitload of pages to correct that bit of idiocy. Now I can be sincere in thanking Front Page for something. Thanks for your global find & replace. And, yes, I've read your requests. There may be an update to it soon.
As promised, more bios of and updates to positions of news and existing Trusted Minions are up at the Crazy People page.
As I had some new stats, the ad policies were tweaked a bit to reflect them.
About those stats, skittles pointed out some pretty glaring spelling errors. I don't know why I ignored the spell check, as it really did catch them. Topamax, yeah, that's the reason. It's a great excuse for all sorts of fuck-ups!

03/03/2005 -

I still feel like crap. This freaking 'flu even managed to mask the warning signs of a seizure one day, so instead of taking some extra lorazepam like I normally would I wind up having a nightmare followed by minor flopping around. Then the day-long seizure hangover on top of the 'flu symptoms. Fortunately I think I'm finally getting over it. I hope.
When feeling like crap, few things cheer me up like dealing with stats. So I've updated the site stats page.
Along the same lines, I've gotten my act together regarding publishing the site's financials. Follow the money.
And I'm keeping you up to date in what people are writing about us. Check out our reviews.
Oh, you're here for information on meds? I'm not in much of a mood for anything quite so useful. However, Lisa in Austria did inform me of a brand name change for paroxetine in Central Europe. It's now better known as Paroxat. While I was at it I gave the page a bit of a makeover and found some interesting sites, like the Czech and Icelandic manufacturers, including the Icelandic PI sheet. And I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I had Lumin listed as paroxetine. That is a completely different med. I blame being crazy in some form or another. That big-ass error has been corrected as well.
Coming up - more bios of the Trusted Minions.

02/26/2005 -

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been laid up with Type A Influenza for most of this month. I'm still dealing with it, but I'm sick of laying in bed watching TV. I'm well enough now to do a little work on the site.
Neil found some invalid HTML on the table o'contents, Thanks loads, Front Page! And since I suck so much at web design, I was completely clueless about it. The overwhelming number of people visiting the site had no problems with the bug, but this probably accounts for some of the odd reports I had from Mac users with navigation issues.
Trusted Minion Cerberus pointed out that I had misidentified an off-label use for Tofranil (imipramine). I had the correct study comparing Tofranil vs. Zoloft (sertraline), I just had it under dysthymia (an off-label use) instead of non-melancholic major depressive disorder (an approved usage). They both suck, but in ways different enough for the FDA and DSM-IV to distinguish the two. I suck enough to not be paying attention enough when I'm copying one med page to another.
Still More information about Panic / Anxiety (and related disorders).
Thanks to Paul of Leeds, some new information came in regarding Effexor (venlafaxine) and booze.
Oh, yeah, we had a huge reorganization over at Crazy Talk. Then I got cranky. And sick. And officially a year older whilst sick. Woo-hoo!
On that subject, more bios and updates to positions of existing Trusted Minions are up at the Crazy People page. At least for everyone who has so far sent me a bio.

02/01/2005 -

The anticonvulsants pages have received a much-needed make-over.

01/29/2005 -

We finally have an official advertising policy. Buy an ad! Support our site without our having to beg so much.
As such, tweaks have been made to the table o'contents, how this site is funded, how you can support this site and the big-ass disclaimer.
We got reviewed on McMan's Medication Links. Five stars. We so rock.

01/24/2005 -

The Lamictal and Topamax pages have been tweaked a bit. Mostly because I sold an ad. Yay for me! But since I was there, I updated some of the information a bit. Look for a big makeover on these pages soon. I hope.
Same goes for the Sites about Bipolar page.
I've joined the Autism Assembly. Look for the banner and statement of purpose on the autism support groups and autism information sites pages. The Introductory page has been tweaked a bit along those lines.

01/23/2005 -

Still more bios added to the Crazy People page for the new Crazy Talk Trusted Minions. Like the new title?
We have more information if you need more information. Specifically Sites about Meds. Finally Sites about Epilepsy and Sites about Panic / Anxiety (and related disorders) have their own pages. Which means the sites I had before have come off the page with info about Everything. I also have more info on the NOS page.
I've updated the Privacy Policy Page to reflect the realities of Crazy Talk and the site stats pages.
I've added a link on how to find a naturopathic doctor.

01/20/2005 -

More bios added to the Crazy People page for the new Crazy Talk moderators. Who are coming in just in time, because that side of the site is growing by leaps and bounds every day.
We've got some new reviews up, from different sources even.
And some updated site statistics are up. Because even though I couldn't break 65% on the geek test, I'm still geeky like that. They're just a bunch of third- and fourth-generation newbies anyway.
We have more information if you need more information. Specifically Sites about Meds and Sites about Autism. One of those med sites is also one of our new favorite research sites. Thanks to Bonnie (Mandakay on Crazy Talk) for pointing it in our direction.
Preliminary year-end financial data have been posted. At least I paid my taxes on time. Well, early. I hope to finish up fiscal 2004 data about the same time as I'm done with January 2005. I'm as bad as one company I used to work for. At least they had the excuse of ingredients that had a negative cost (i.e. they were paid to haul it a way and pour it into the vats) and government control on the reporting of ingredients that caused stock on hand to go negative. So try to wrap your head around the coding it took to deal with that. Yes, it did take a special sort of crazy. I'll spare you what the ingredients are and what they are used for. Yes, present tense. You're welcome. Why do you think they gave me the title of "Information Systems Technical Wizard" in 1989? I was probably the first software person in San Francisco to have a wacky name on his business cards and in the org charts.
And the big-ass disclaimer down at the bottom of each page has been rewritten and will be propagated to all pages in time. You can see it as its own file because we're moving to .shtml, per the advice of Technology Guru Alex.

01/02/2005 -

More bios added to the Crazy People page for the new Crazy Talk moderators. Who are coming in just in time, because I'm still not of much use right now. I still suck way too much.
A few tweaks to the donations page, because you can still do stuff that doesn't need cash to help me, while forking over your cash to help people in tsunami-land.
Couple of additions to the bibliography page, thanks to a donation from Maddy.

12/29/2004 -

Whine some more in my blog, because I was lucky enough not to live where a tsunami hit. So I'm still alive enough to be depressed and can complain about it.
Updated the donations page, to encourage all y'all to direct some of your funding to the tsunami relief. I still need the money, but at least I still have a place to live and don't have to worry about cholera or dysentery.
I've been adding bios to the Crazy People page for the new Crazy Talk moderators. Who are coming in just in time, because I'm not of much use right now. I suck way too much.

12/26/2004 -

Life still sucks so much ass. So what do I do about it? Write in my blog, that's what. What do you expect from an INFJ type?

12/23/2004 -

New entry on my blog. In case all y'all have been wondering why I haven't been answering much mail or participating that much on the Crazy Talk forum. Or doing much of anything, really. Merry fucking Christmas.

12/17/2004 -

Another link on a More Information Page
That just happens to go along with some updates to Bryan's article on the SSDI / SSI application process.

12/08/2004 -

A couple more links have been added to various More Information Pages and some Support Group pages. Including a new page for more sites about autism.
Karen noticed an embarrassing typo regarding dosage equivalents of antipsychotics on the How to Take Risperdal page. Risperdal, Zyprexa, what's the difference, eh?

12/05/2004 -

A couple more links have been added to various More Information Pages and some Support Group pages.
Adderall is getting a makeover. This is still a work in progress.
I'm slowly adding the following links to all the pages on the site: Crazy Meds Home Crazy Meds Talk Support Group Sites Sites with More Information About Crazy Meds I figure that's probably a good generic navigation set.
Updated the comments on Cymbalta.
Added a bit on the Brand vs. Generic page where generics can be better for seniors and other poor metabolizers.

12/04/2004 -

A few more links have been added to various More Information Pages and some Support Group pages.
I've finally updated the site's financial reporting. So follow the money.
Along those same lines I've tweaked several of the pages under the entire Know Your Sources section, adding Kassiane's bio to the Crazy People page, and tweaking the bibliography and privacy policy a bit.

12/03/2004 -

As promised, The links to the More Information Pages have been reorganized and no more going to the Alexa page first. I'll be adding more pages over the next few days as well, but I just had to get these up.

12/02/2004 -

The links to Support Groups have been reorganized. I've also done away with the annoying Alexa page. You'll now just go right to the support group page in question. I'll be doing the same for the links to pages for more information.
There's now a chat room up as part of the Crazy Talk forum. If you're into that sort of thing then chatter away to your heart's content. It's at the very bottom of the home page. Or, if you prefer, here's a direct link to Crazy Chat.

11/20/2004 -

Yet another embarrassing typo was spotted. This time on the Paxil page. It's been corrected. Really, there is a way to discontinue Paxil.
Bryan has some more information about consultative examinations and SSDI/SSI.
The Seroquel (quetiapine fumarate) page finally got a much-needed multi-page makeover.
More information was added to the Risperdal (risperidone) and Zyprexa (olanzapine) pages. I'll probably break up their study pages like I did with Seroquel.
The archive of the old Crazy Talk forum is gone. Sorry. I had to get rid of it to make the pinheads at Netbullshit happy.

11/08/2004 -

Sharron spotted a truly embarrassing typo on the Zoloft page from copy'n'paste mania. That's been corrected, along with a couple comments, links and brand names added.
Added Kassiane's book to the book store. OK, she's just one of the many authors involved, but c'mon, support our uberspazzen!
Updated the Cymbalta comments page with additional field reports. People really like this med.

11/06/2004 -

I've added a page of Site Statistics. Because I'm geeky like that.
The bibliography and book store have been updated to reflect a book-buying binge I did to fill the void in my soul. It helped. A little.

11/05/2004 -

I'm still making tweaks to the Crazy Talk forum. So don't be surprised if you keep seeing changes to things like picture size and ads at the bottom and the like.
Thanks to Charlotte at 1and1.com I finally got my e-mail working again! She found out that after their SMTP changes a change had to be made to a Mozilla setting that is the complete opposite to what is in the boilerplate response, as well as what used to work before. Thanks again, Charlotte! It's tech support lotto with 1and1.com, but when you hit the competent people, they always come through.
I had to change some references in Bryan's article on SSDI. Just so they point to the new forum. But that's why there's a change in the last update flag.
There's been some new research published on how valproates work in your brain that I've come across.

11/04/2004 -

The Crazy Talk forum has been replaced! With working software! AnyBoard has been ditched and YABB has been put in its place. I'm sorry I just didn't do this sooner, but the whole going round in circles thing with Netbula's lack of support and repeating the same useless instructions for what I did already got me all frustrated and autistic in a bad way. Without Risperdal it's a lot more difficult to control such things. So instead of just walking away from obviously bad software and idjits I had to argue with them for almost two weeks. I really apologize to the user community for doing that. Thanks to one of the Crazy Talk lurkers for pointing me to YABB. If and when I get a refund from the Netbula dickweeds, that money will be donated to the YABB people. Anyway, I'm still tweaking how it looks, boards and stuff. But I'm stressed, depressed and tired, so that'll all come later.
If, for some reason, you still want to see the old posts, I've left the old Crazy Talk forum up. It's read only, posting will just crash on you.

10/31/2004 -

The Crazy Talk forum is still broken. The dickweeds at Netbula just don't get that their precious MASTER admin panel was replaced by their forum admin panel after I entered the license key. That's what the "upgrade" did. At this point I'm just going to archive the AnyBoard-based forum and replace with software that actually works. I'm open to suggestions for forum software.
New entry on my blog. In case you're wondering, Mouse has resurfaced. The soap opera continues.

10/23/2004 -

The Crazy Talk forum is still broken. Please address all complaints here. You'll probably have to register.
Happy fucking birthday Crazy Meds. The site was officially registered on the 19th, but no content went up until 10/23/2003. That was back when it was one big-ass file. Eventually it took the form of each med getting a small page, but everything was still crappy, much like the entries for all of the benzos and MAOIs still are today. I still wonder how that one person in Italy stumbled across this site.
Anyway, new content - turns out I had accidentally uploaded a half-finished version of the Tofranil (imipramine pamoate) page up, and there was a link to it, with a bunch of data from the Elavil (amitriptyline) on it. Yow! That just goes to show you that doctors and pharmacists and many, many other websites are far more trustworthy than this one. So both pages got a bit of an update.
The Risperdal (risperidone) pages have been updated with new data and what is going to be the new look.
While I was at it, I tweaked some data on the Zyprexa (olanzapine) pages a bit.
The Reviews Page has some new reviews, and I think I fixed the link that lets you review this site. I can't test it, since it wouldn't let me review my own site anyway. It gets up to that point at least.
My outgoing e-mail is still down. Please add your complaints to support@1and1.com about it. Whatever the hell is wrong with their SMTP may or may not be a symptom of why the forum software is getting weirder and weirder about not working.

10/20/2004 -

An attempt to upgrade the Crazy Talk has been a disaster. The forum is currently broken. Please address all complaints here. You'll probably have to register.
I've updated my blog a bit.

10/12/2004 -

The Cymbalta pages have a few tweaks.
The Zyprexa pages have finally been updated.
Along with that I've updated the pages on novel / atypical antipsychotics. I've expanded the information on EPS, TD & NMS as well as their long-term issues.
Bryan has contributed an article on how to apply for SSDI. It's the first contribution to this site.
To go along with that, the page on organizing your medical records has been reorganized into the multi-page format, and expanded to include a section specific to disability claims.
Since there's a bunch of information on muscarinic receptors in the pages on atypical antipsychotics, I put up my story, Jerod in Muscarine Land. After that long night of accidentally induced ultradian rapid cycling, I now know why meds like Zyprexa are really damn good for fast, temporary relief of ultradian rapid cycling.

10/01/2004 -

The Cymbalta pages have been updated. That's right, pages. I'm going to a multi-page format for meds, because there's just too much information. It's too much to swallow on one page. Hope you like it.

09/28/2004 -

Geez Louise it took long enough! The goddamn movers decided that they liked my stuff so much they sat on it for three weeks! Finally, I'm in Missoula, my house is being sold and Crazy Meds is getting updated!
Once again, the intro has been tweaked.
I've moved my blog to this site, and will update it when I get a chance.
I've updated the Side Effects page to make it easier to read, spinning off the various side effects onto their own pages. So now Weight Gain and Loss of Libido are on their own.
There's a new page on how to donate to Crazy Meds without going through PayPal.
The Google search feature is back on the contents page. About freaking time.
I've begun work on pages about the Suicide Risk from Meds and Lessening the Suicide Risk. They're still works in progress, but I figured I could put up what I've got so far.

08/15/2004 -

I've updated my blog just to let everyone know that I'm finally moving! In a matter of days I'll be packing up the computer and everything will be shipped up to Missoula, Montana. So I'll be off-line, more or less, until about the end of this month. If Crazy Meds disappears again, please complain loudly and often to support@1and1.com

06/13/2004 -

I've updated my blog so you can read why my e-mail is now on auto-responder, why I'm not answering any questions on Crazy Talk, and why my life is painfully going nowhere.

05/28/2004 -

Slowly I'm dealing with selling my house and moving. It's getting there. Really, it is. Rather, I'm getting out of here. Meanwhile...
I've finally written up why it's so damned important to belong to a support group. As well as discuss your issues with a talk therapist / counselor. But most especially getting involved with at least one support group. And if you don't like any so far, there's always Crazy Talk.
Because meds alone are not going to solve all of your problems, people, that's why! Hell, meds may not even be appropriate for a lot of you. And it takes a psychiatrist, a talk therapist and talking to people who have dealt with the same thing to help you make the decision about if you really do need meds or not. And regardless of if you need meds or not, if you're reading this site, you probably need therapy. Or counseling. Or something like that. So I've added a paragraph on just that to all of the major med groups - Antidepressants (including SSRIs, SNRIs and multiple reuptake inhibitors), Anticonvulsants (including benzos), Antipsychotics (including atypicals), the ADD meds and just the Basic Info page.

05/15/2004 -

I can't deal with my life, so I work on the site instead.
I've added a new page - how to safely stop taking crazy meds. Just in case you need to. Along with tips on how to make sure it's the right decision.
I've updated the pages on antipsychotics and atypical antipsychotics to give a little insight into my experiences with TD.
I've updated the Risperdal (risperidone) with how much it sucks to not take it because of TD, along with a bit of a new look.
I've also given a few pages a bit of a new look to make searching a little easier and information on discontinuation easier as well.
I added some information on TEN to the anticonvulsants page.

05/08/2004 -

It's all about the money, baby.
I've been updating my blog so you can read about how much it sucks lately.

05/01/2004 -

OK, I lied. I was pissed off about the whole Medicare Drug Discount Card thing, so I added it to the page on choosing a pharmacist. I'm too depressed to deal with moving, so I figured I could write a couple paragraphs on why Medicare sucks.

04/30/2004 -

Sorry about the Google search feature vanishing. As the site has grown I've not paid attention to the terms of use of for it and wound up violating one or more of them. Mr. Not Thinking Clearly strikes again. I hope to have it back some day.
Meanwhile I'm severely depressed and overwhelmed by having to sell my house and, of course, move. Don't expect any updates for some time.

04/23/2004 -

I've split the explanations of our drug guides and US PI sheets into separate pages.
Reclassifed Wellbutrin (bupropion) as a multiple reuptake inhibitor. While I was at it, gave the page on the multiple reuptake inhibitors a makeover.
Added some additional information on the Topamax (topiramate) page.

04/22/2004 -

Updated the antidepressants page, including a link to an article weighing the pros and cons of the drugs for that hardest to medicate group - the moderately depressed.

04/20/2004 -

Since I finally straightened out just what the hell Wellbutrin (bupropion hydrochloride) is doing in your brain, I've updated its page.
I saw this on the PsychopharmINFO page and liked the idea so much I had to steal it - news about meds! So I'm adding a Google news search to meds pages and other pages where appropriate as I update them.
Anna sent me some information on where US citizens can obtain Edronax (reboxetine), as well as confirming the experiences I've read concerning dosages. So as long as I was including that I've updated the look of the page and included some other data I've found on the med.
And since I had the page open, I tweaked the Strattera (atomoxetine HCl) a bit.
I had a bit to add on my Risperdal (risperidone) experiences. There's still more to come.
Some new side effects and other information came up for Lexapro (escitalopram oxalate).
I've read up a bit on Clozaril (clozapine), so while I haven't yet updated its page, I have made a couple changes to the Dosage Equivalents and Atypical Antipsychotics pages.
I've added some more links to the More Information and Support Groups pages. Plus I gave the Support Groups page a makeover.

04/16/2004 -

The flurry of recent news stories just forced me to include some information on kids an SSRIs.
Which meant I had to update the Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) page, as it's the only modern antidepressant approved to use with kids, and for damned good reason.
Then I noticed some stuff which I neglected to mention on the Symbyax page, so I got to updating that.
While I was at it, I decided to update the lithium page.
And the Tegretol (carbamazepine USP) because the types of Google ads were just driving me nuts, so maybe a makeover would fix it.

04/14/2004 -

Hey, like the simplified format of the site?
I've tweaked the introduction yet again.
And I keep fooling around with the meds format. So look for a few new sections coming to pages as I update them.
I've begun my write-up on anti-Alzheimer's and anti-Parkinson's medications.
So I've had to updated the pages on antipsychotics and atypical antipsychotics, to reflect how the anti-Parkinson's meds are used to treat the EPS side effects.

04/13/2004 -

I got the whole MAO and norepinephrine reuptake thing straightened out. Sorry about any previous psychopharmacological confusion. So updates to:

The Strattera (atomoxetine HCl) page.
The Endorax (reboxetine) page.
The Effexor (venlafaxine) page.
The Cymbalta (duloxetine) page.
The Selective Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors page.
The Multiple Reuptake Inhibitors page.
I didn't bother with Serzone (nefazodone hydrochloride) as that med is pretty much going off the market.
I've also reorganized the contents page a bit. I'm going to be covering meds dealing with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in their own right, mainly because so many of them are used off-label to deal with either affective mood disorders or the side effects of the drugs we take for having an affective mood disorder. Plus Mouse and I have experience with a few of them ourselves, and I'm taking one yet again. I've also found a few benzos and standard antipsychotics that I neglected to list. And I'm putting the non-benzodiazepine anti-anxiety meds into their own category as well. Oh, and the standard antipsychotics are divided into two groups, which may or may not make a difference. I've yet to research that enough. I hope to soon get the new meds I've just listed on the contents page dummied up with pages that at least give you some PI sheets and basic information until I get to writing them up in more detail. I just had to get them listed while I was thinking about it.

04/11/2004 -

A little More Information has been added.
It's all about the money, baby.
We have some reviews up on Amazon.

04/10/2004 -

Good news everyone, there are some updates to the site. Not much, because things are going to be hectic in my life for the next couple of months as I prepare to move. So any future updates will be few and far between for the time being.
I fixed a broken link on the Medical Records page. And while I was at it, I gave the page a makeover.
The More Information page was similarly made over and had a link adjusted.
I've added a page specifically on Finding a Doctor.
Along those same lines, a page on Finding a Lawyer.

03/27/2004 -

Finally! Some new content! I'm upgrading the Risperdal (risperidone) page.
I'm still adding more support sites.
You may notice a change in format to some of the pages. I'm trying to see if that enhances your browsing experience, which is slick marketing-speak for my trying to squeeze more pennies out of each visit.

03/25/2004 -

I've changed the navigation of the site so most links open up in the same frame. I did this because there seems to be some issues with pop-up blocking software, which is understandable. Any new window may not be determined by the pop-up blocking software not to be an annoying ad. So if you want to open something in a new window, it's up to you. Hey, I've always written that I totally suck at website design.
I'm really trying to get some new content up, but my life keeps getting in my way. Issues, issues, issues.
Added still more support groups.
Not only that, I'm adding links to support group or informational sites on the drug pages themselves. You'll be directed to the Alexa description of the site first, so it's two clicks to get to the page in question.

03/24/2004 -

Added some more support groups and pointed some existing ones through the layers of Alexa.

03/23/2004 -

And yet another product has been added to SpazzSoft. To top it off, I've added the banners & links to the various software products I'm hawking to some of the more popular pages on the site. Hey, just what all y'all wanted, more ads.
Not only that, I've redirected many of the links on the more information through Amazon so I can pick up a few more pennies. Expect the same thing to happen on the support groups page.
Why? Because I suck. I'm depressed, I'm $40,000 in debt, I have a mini nervous breakdown when the least little thing goes wrong and I just suck, that's why. I can't get my head together to provide any new content, so I make the site suck by adding additional layers of annoyance to try to generate income.

03/22/2004 -

Another product has been added to SpazzSoft.
Sorry that I'm not really updating anything, but I've been depressed as fuck lately and the adjustments to my meds in trying to deal with it haven't really worked out. The results were a dysphoric mania. What fun. As my doctor and I discussed, there probably isn't a pharmacological answer to this depression. I just have to deal with my issues. Unfortunately it's making me extremely susceptible to going off at the least little thing, so anything that goes wrong sends me to be for half a day or longer. This is made worse by my odd form of seasonal affective disorder, where eight times a year (and this is one of those eight - corresponding to the old pagan holy days) I'm especially prone to mood swings.

03/21/2004 -

The Crazy Talk forum really works now. Really. With IE and everything. You don't really have to register if you don't want to, you can post anonymously. Go ahead, join the fun.
You can now Review Crazy Meds on Amazon!

03/18/2004 -

Updated the page on side effects to include remedies for the more popular ones. I'll start pointing to that page from all the med pages.
Found yet another review of sorts.
SpazzSoft, our line of mental health software, has been added to the Mental Mall. So far there is all of one product. But who knows what the future holds.

03/13/2004 -

The Crazy Talk forum is back for real! Now using Anyboad as the conferencing system. So you can once again discuss meds, or whatever issues you have, publicly and anonymously.

03/11/2004 -

The Paxil (paroxetine hydrochloride) got a makeover.
Along with that, some tweaks to the SSRI and Antidepressants pages.

03/09/2004 -

OK, the Gabitril (tiagabine hydrochloride) page now has the new & improved look.
I've added still more information in the form of links to quality pages.
I was also full of crap on the whole citrus juice and extended release meds things, so I've corrected that bit of misinformation. Sorry about that.

03/08/2004 -

The Crazy Talk forum is fixed. Maybe. I don't know why changes to 1 & 1 dot com's control panel and statistical gathering methods would break it in the first place, but that's what happened. For whatever reasons, recreating the FrontPage forum still didn't work. So I'm trying their forum. Let's see if it sucks more or less than the FrontPage forum.
I was completely full of shit when I thought that Gabitril (tiagabine hydrochloride) wasn't trustworthy as an anti-epileptic drug because of it's habit of pooping out for off-label psychiatric uses. Bzzzzt! Wrong answer! I'll be posting more about it when I update Gabitril's page, and I hope to do that soon. But I've gone through and removed references to it not being something you should trust if you're switching anticonvulsants. There's actually a reason for it pooping out for anxiety and bipolar after a short period of time, but continuing to work long-term as an anti-epileptic, and lots of studies to back it up as a fine long-term anti-epileptic med. Sorry Cephalon! And that just goes to show you why you should always get your online health information from multiple sources. So a whole bunch of anticonvulsant pages have been updated, and since I was in there I fixed up their look and actually made links to references for off-label uses of the meds.

03/02/2004 -

I thought I had done this earlier, but I didn't. So I did it now. I've added information about how valproates and other anticonvulsants can mess with your testosterone.
I stumbled across a freaky rare side effect for Desyrel (trazodone) that was just too freaky to not include right now.

03/01/2004 -

It's all about the money, baby.
Pamelor (nortriptyline hydrochloride) now has its own page.
A few more tweaks to the Tegretol (carbamazepine USP) page.

02/29/2004 -

I've added still more information in the form of links to quality pages.
Found another review of sorts.
Stressed how you should really know your sources and gave you even more tools to do so.
Gabe brought another great research site to my attention.
I'm getting over my issues with antidepressants. The page on TCAs is being updated, and each med in that class is getting its own page, starting with Elavil (amitriptyline) and Asendin (amoxapine). Asendin (amoxapine) it turns out wasn't even a true TCA in the first place.
That also means that I've touched up the antidepressant and SSRI pages as well.

02/24/2004 -

Some tweaks to some descriptions of existing links on the more information page.
Finally gave the Trileptal page its long overdue makeover.
Nailed a price on Symbyax. My original guess was $200 for 30 of the 6/25 pills. The current asking price is $220 for 30 of them.
Found another review of sorts.

02/17/2004 -

I've added still more information in the form of links to quality pages.
Updated the page on the differences between brand and generic meds with more information on the actual differences between the two forms.

02/16/2004 -

I've updated the page on antidepressants, including some info on non-med treatments and brief information on kids and antidepressants.
Similarly the page on SSRIs has been updated.
As well as the page on basic information about all meds.
I've given people reason to calm the hell down about Lamictal (lamotrigine) and The Rash.
Updated the disclaimer on all pages with a link to an article about cyberchondria. Don't be one, OK.

02/13/2004 -

More important information came in on anticonvulsant skin care and sudden death.
Which necessitated an update to the Topamax (topiramate) page. So I may as well bring it up to HON code.
Updated the Strattera (atomoxetine HCl) page with additional information and brought it up to code.
Updated the Cymbalta (duloxetine) page with important information and gave it the new look.

02/12/2004 -

Reorganized the page with links to more information, as well as adding some more.

02/10/2004 -

Reorganized the listings of support groups, as well as adding a few more.
Tweaked the intro yet again.
Added a few more meds with something to read, so all the ADD meds and most of the miscellaneous meds have links now.
Tweaked the money page a bit. You can see just how pitiful the finances are around here a bit better.
Hey, we got a real review!

02/09/2004 -

Added some more books to Burning Mind Books.
Added a lookup of active meds in Canada.
Begun our guide to which drugs are best for you. There's not much there yet, but I'll be starting it up for real pretty soon.
Added some information on anticonvulsant/mood stabilizer poop out.

02/07/2004 -

Finished with the standard antipsychotics, so all of them now have links to something that you can read.

02/06/2004 -

Added a search feature to Burning Mind Books.
Added additional links to the more information page.
A reader and donor (yay!) suggested that I link to rxlist or something for all meds that don't have a page yet. A good idea, one that I've tweaked a bit. I've come up with a template for meds I've yet to cover, with links to rxlist and all the international sites that have listings for them. I may even plop the meds in the crappy old format into it until I update them. So lots of meds will suddenly have links that don't do much, but it's better than nothing.

02/03/2004 -

Tweaked the bit on SUDEP and status epilepticus on the anticonvulsants page.
The latest financial statement is up on the reformatted we're in it for the money page.
Reorganized and added a new entry to the bibliography.
More books on the virtual shelves of Burning Mind Books.
Condensed the table of contents to make the site a bit easier to navigate, I hope.

02/02/2004 -

Updated Luvox with some important information, and gave it the new look.
Updated the anticonvulsants page with equally important information and made it a little more mercantile as well.
Added some more Reviews & Ratings.

01/30/2004 -

I fixed a buttload of broken links, so there will be today's date on many, many pages.
Updated the page explaining the drugs pages, to reflect the new look.
Updated the very popular Lexapro page with new information and the new mercantile look.
Added a page of Reviews & Ratings.

01/29/2004 -

Still more post-marketing additions to the Tegretol page.
New information added to the Depakote page, and so I've added the dead-tree references and gave it the new mercantile look as well.
The Lamictal page was similarly updated.
Added the generic names to the page with the Dosage Equivalencies. Duh. Plus cleaned it up a bit and added some shameless hucksterism.

01/27/2004 -

We had some post-marketing additions to the Tegretol page.
Still more links added to the more information page.
Reorganized and expanded Burning Mind Books.

01/26/2004 -

Touched up the page about that lithium orotate crap. I'm probably just pissing off the people espousing homeopathy and flower essences as a cure for bipolar disorder, epilepsy and schizophrenia all the more.
Added a new page on Enzyme-Inducing Anticonvulsants. It sports a new feature to help me live up to HON standards, the specific books I used for the article appear at the end, complete with links to how you can buy them from Amazon when possible.
I also gave the page about valproates that same new look.
While we're on the subject of enzyme-inducing meds, I've updated the Tegretol page.
Added shameless hucksterism, along with additional links to the more information page.
What the hell, lets put some shameless hucksterism at the bottom of this page as well.

01/23/2004 -

At last I've put up a page about that lithium orotate crap. If you want snake oil, here's snake oil. You'll see that it sports the shiny new huckster look that other pages may soon have.
Also the lithium page got a few updates, as there were some internal problems. It, too, has the new huckster look.
And a few more tweaks to the forum were needed.
I don't know what the hell happened with the Lamictal PI sheet, but it's fixed now.

01/21/2004 -

Thanks to Vijay at Microsoft I've finally got a forum going! Who would've thought that to create a discussion group in FrontPage you don't start with the discussion group template they provide. I would RTFM, but there's no manual any more, and the online help points to the discussion group template. Is that crazy or what? Thank you, Vijay!

01/19/2004 -

Shoring up the support with more support links.
I've had a bit more explaining to do on the Drugs Explained page.
Globalized Topamax's entry.
Added a link to France's Répertoire des Spécialités Pharmaceutiques to the Table of Contents.
Added links to some more quality, international information.
Updated lithium's entry to the new & improved format.
Added links to buy the books in our bibliography.

01/17/2004 -

Just a few tweaks to the valproate, Depakote, valproic acid and valproate sodium pages.
Added a link to HON's new browser plugin on the pages where you can go to get more information and to know your sources.
Downloaded the latest Topamax PI sheet to reflect the latest warnings against mixing the ketogenic (high protein, no carbs) diet with Topamax.
Can you believe I left Dilantin off of the list of meds that affect Lamictal efficacy?
Updated the bibliography.

01/12/2004 -

Still more books added to the selection at Mind Burning Books.
Added PI sheets from Forn Parts the source of the information on the drugs pages.
Along with that, included links to online databases of PI sheets from the UK, New Zealand and South Africa to the contents page.
Added a little more information about Lamictal.
Updated the Depakote page.
Finally converted the pages about valproic acid and valproate sodium into the new format.

01/09/2004 -

More books added to the selection at Mind Burning Books.
More online sources added.
Yes, I know, I need to add more content. But I've had issues lately. I've been too anxious, depressed, and/or pissed-off to deal with tracking down real information about valproic acid and valproate sodium.

01/08/2004 -

Somewhat came to terms with my prejudices against the TCAs.
I've finally put up an online forum. Ooops, it doesn't work. Lied to again by Microsoft. Sorry about that.
At last the Mental Mall is open. Our first store - Mind Burning Books.

01/04/2004 -

I finally added an entry for Symbyax.

01/01/2004 -

Oh well, more personal issues to deal with. I really should be working on adding an entries for Symbyax and Depacon, and updating the entry for Depakene. Instead I've updated the section on my finances, and added

to the drug pages in the new format. I've also updated the copyright information on those pages. At least I'm doing something while depressed as fuck. Happy fucking new year!
I've also added a couple more sites that are probably much better than this one.

12/29/2003 -

I finally dealt with various personal and technological issues to start adding content again. Woo-hoo.
The Depakote page has finally been updated. Look for updates to other members of valproate family soon.
Oh boy, more books added to the bibliography.

12/13/2003 -

The biggest news is that this site has applied for HON accreditation and we're coming along. It'll be several months, at least, before we try again for full accreditation.
As part of those changes I'm slowly propagating a page creation date to all pages.
Also as part of the accreditation I've gone into much more detail as to the source of the information on the drugs pages.
And about where we get our information in general, both from online sources and books - both of which have had some updates.
And how this site is funded.
Added a page on the valproate family. I had hoped to have new entries for all the valproate members, but now that I'm trying to write new pages to HON standards - they take a long time!
Updated the page on Antidepressants with some links to pages questioning the efficacy of the class. I also appologize for my prejudice against the meds.
Updated our page of where to go for More Information.
Would you believe I still can't get that Introduction right? Yeah, it's pretty believable.
Updated the Support Groups page with links to the schizophrenia groups, such as they are.
Found a study supporting my stand on the Brand vs. Generic issue.

12/09/2003 -

Updated the Bibliography with some new entries.
Updated the Basic Information About Psychiatric Medications, adding an entry about med compliance.
Still organizing that page on Organizing Your Medical Records. I've expanded it to be about your medical history in general.
Just to let you know in our Privacy Policy that we don't need your e-mail address in the [Guestbook].
Updated the page on Choosing the Right Pharmacist with a few more tips.

12/08/2003 -

Finally got back to working on the meds. Updated Neurontin's page to the new format.

12/07/2003 -

Added a page about our Privacy Policy.
Updated our page of where to go for More Information.
Added a bunch of stupid website stuff, like a counter and a guest book. Look for them towards the bottom of the table o'contents.

12/05/2003 -

Added a page about how you should Know Your Sources, including this one.
Updated the information on drug metabolism in the Basic Information About Psychiatric Medications.
Updated our list of Research Sites with a couple more sites.
Updated our page of where to go for More Information with some more sites and the proviso about knowing your sources.
Clarified the money thing a bit.
Also made it clear that I have no credentials of which to speak.
Added the RxList search to the Contents page.

12/03/2003 -

Added a page on where all of our money comes from. At fifty cents a day we're just rolling in dough.
Oops, left out a few things about Organizing Your Medical Records. I'm just so organized.
Updated the Support Groups page with some more groups.
Now you get to see who the crazy people of Crazy Meds are.
Added a page of where to go for More Information.

12/01/2003 -

Added a page on important and interesting FDA information.
Added a page on Organizing Your Medical Records.
I'm still messing around with that Introduction.
Added still more information on kidney stones & Topamax
Touched up the page on Choosing the Right Pharmacist.
Added a few internal links to the page on Anticonvulsants.
Clarified things a bit on how we're all somewhat med sensitive when it comes to Side Effects.
Clarified the e-mail contact in the signature of pages. You can see the at the bottom of this page. It will progagate through the site as I update other pages.
Now that Google has done its big monthly indexing, the search feature actually works!
You may notice the title of the main page has changed. We'll be helping you get to tools that will help you get your life back together. Or to get it together in the first place. It starts with the meds, but it doesn't end there.

11/26/2003 -

Added information on kidney stones & Topamax
Added links to other meds on the Strattera page
Tweaked the Introduction yet again.
Hey, I was really depressed yesterday. I'm much better today, but something that bad still affects you. I'm just glad my cocktail works so well that a nasty breakthrough depression is timed in terms of hours instead of weeks.

11/24/2003 -

Added Choosing the Right Pharmacist.

Added this very page of what's new.

Edited the Introduction page.

Begun to put an e-mail contact in the signature of pages, instead of just in the tiny disclaimer.

Updated the information I had about grapefruit juice and meds on the Basic Information page. It's still a bad idea to mix them, I just found some better data to back up why it's a bad idea.

11/21/2003 -

Updated the listing for Lamictal.

Updated the listing for Topamax.

Updated the Anticonvulsants page.

11/20/2003 -

Added the page of Web Sites.

Updated the Bibliography.

11/19/2003 -

Updated the listing for Topamax.

11/18/2003 -

Updated every page with a new disclaimer, a last-updated date and an e-mail contact.

The Overlords of the 12 Zernox Galaxies have compelled me through messages in the Sunday Chronicle to beg you for your support. So if this site has been of use and/or amusement to you, visit the Support Page to find out how you can help. This includes reviewing Crazy Meds for Amazon.com and/or

There's also our Mental Mall to snag some free software or a purchase some books.

Better yet, if you run a business and want to advertise on Crazy Meds, see our page on ad rates and policies. I'm all about fiscal transparency, so follow the money for full disclosure of my finances.

Take care of yourself, and keep taking your crazy meds!

Jerod

If you still have unanswered questions about this or other medications, including which one is, or combination of meds are the best for you, your best bet is to ask on Crazy Meds Talk. Better yet, if you want to let the world know how they worked out for you and want to help out others in their quest for the correct meds, join the party.
If you want to discuss your issues, I suggest checking out one of the various support groups online.
Otherwise, if you're letting me know about how much you like or hate the site, or need to let me know about medication effects in private, then just drop a note to jerod23 at gmail dot com Honestly, I usually don't have a lot of time to answer e-mail these days. The snide autoresponse message that may or may not hit your mailbox is going to tell you the same thing.
Another problem is that you may not get a response even if I wanted to send you one. You see, so many dickweeds with malicious intents and too much time on their hands have appropriated the crazymeds.org domain name to use for their spam, viruses and the like. Subsequently some lazy-ass e-mail protection software authors just go by the domain name, and not the IP address. So I've been blacklisted because of the actions of others. Or the software just doesn't like the domain name because of the "crazy" and/or "meds." Or your question about a particular medication will set off spam flags. So the e-mail just wouldn't go through regardless. Sorry.

Hey, did you find this page all by itself through Google or some other search engine? Great! But to really appreciate the entire site, you need to start here.

Created Monday, November 24, 2003

Last updated Monday, May 24, 2010

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