Here are a couple of sites to bookmark in case you’re unable to reach us here at crazymeds.us If and when I’m aware of any problems making the entire site, or just the forum, unavailable, I’ll keep everyone updated at:
The Crazymeds Blog
and the newly created Crazy Meds Imperial Corporate Facebook Page

This page is for the latest major updates to Crazy Meds and the Crazy Meds Talk forum.
The PmWiki software automagically tracks all changes to all pages, so if you want to see it all:

21 April 2012

  • girrl88 sent me a bunch of additional information about Invega Sustenna. So most of the Invega pages have been updated to include the additional data about the once-a-month injectable version of Invega.
  • I’ve also been tweaking the format of the basic overview and expanded medication pages like Invega’s. Mostly the order in which you see the information. It dawned on me that it makes more sense to have how long it takes, and how likely it would be for a work for its approved and off-label uses immediately after the list of its approved and off-label uses. Followed by how you should take it and stop taking it. Then pros and cons, then side effects, then all the stuff 99% of people don’t bother reading.
  • I’ve been filling in a lot of the blanks on said pages, mainly drug to drug comparisons in efficacy or side effects.
  • The forum software was updated. Some bugs were fixed. Most of the new features were for moderators, so you won’t be seeing much in the way of changes. We’re still working on problems people are having with smart phones and blogs.

22 March 2012

  • I’m redesigning the main section (i.e. the non-forum part, AKA right here) of the site to make it easier to read for the 30% or so of the people who access it with a mobile device. I’d like some feedback on this, so let me know wherever you’re more comfortable do so. On the forum, on the blog, or on the Facebook page.

1 March 2012

9 January 2012

25–26 December 2011

  • Upgrading the forum and blog software. Let’s see how many tries are required and how long it takes.

05 December 2011

I have links for these meds:
Abilify BuSpar Cymbalta Invega Keppra Lamictal Lexapro Paxil Risperdal Seroquel Topamax Wellbutrin Zoloft Zyprexa

27 November 2011

18 November 2011

21 October 2011

23 September 2011

18 September 2011

  • Upgraded the forum software. Hate the new look, like some of the new functions, don’t like how others are no longer available.

02 August 2011

21 July 2011
The Edronax (reboxetine mesylate) page is now up.

7 July 2011

  • There’s still some tweaking and assorted clean-up to do, but the Crazy Meds Talk forum has undergone a major rearrangement. I’ve moved the condition sections, such as Bipolar Disorder - I’m So Happy I Could Kill Myself, to be right under the Generic Forum Crap section. This is because most of the questions in the medication sections were along the lines of “Which is the best med to fix me?” and not “I’ve been taking Lamictal for five years, why am I suddenly seeing double?” Additionally:
    • Saphris and Zonegran now have their own forums.
    • Migraines and headaches was folded into the the Epilepsy forum.
    • The two forums on ECT, VNS, TMS, DBS and any other electrical or surgical therapies have been merged into one forum, so it doesn’t matter what they’re used for, they’re now treated just like a medication.
    • The same applies to talk therapies and the like.
    • I created a new forum for AP-induced movement disorders and how to treat them in the antipsychotics section. So many questions about problems like TD, EPS, and akathisia were popping up across that section I figured it deserved its own forum. Plus I had to quit taking Risperdal due to TD and I fucking loved Risperdal.
    • I created a new section, The Cocktail Party, for two more catch-all forums. I’ve given in to a forum on med cocktails. That’s where all those questions involving drug-drug interactions should go, along with “I’m taking Topamax, Lamictal, and lithium, and I’m breaking out all over, which one is responsible?” For those playing at home, the answer is “Yes.”
    • Also in that section is the currently empty forum Miscellaneous Major Medical Melange. I need to move a shitload of topics from Small Talk there, and probably a bunch of other forums as well. MMMM is the “It’s health-related, but it doesn’t really belong anywhere else” forum.
    • So, please, no medication, psychiatric, health, or similar topics in Small Talk. Kthxbai.
  • While not site-related per se, I’ve been uploading a shitload of new designs to Straitjacket T-shirts, and I tweaked the design of the shop a bit. After three full days of dealing with how long it takes to do that, and I still have finished designs that aren’t yet shop-ready, I’m looking at Zazzle and other options. Because clarity of thought has not been one of my strengths in a long-ass time.

15 June 2011

  • Somehow I managed to skip converting the Thorazine (chlorpromazine hydrochloride) and Elavil (amitriptyline HCl) pages when I moved everything to the new format. I just finished the Elavil page.
  • Added anticholinergic and antihistamine subsections to the common side effects page.

11 June 2011

  • The Invega pages have been converted to the new format. These are the first pages written by someone else to be converted to the new format, so I’ve had to mess around with a bunch of stuff to get all the copyright information to appear correctly, which is why I didn’t include them in the first wave of meds.
  • I finished up the Meds & Supplements page.
  • The HONCode certification has been renewed for another year. You may have noticed we have the certification logo up on the forum. Sites that have collaborative aspects (blog, forum, etc.) are now reviewed as a whole. You won’t find many peer-run mental health fora with HONCode certification, although that’s mainly due to stigma. As I don’t have a problem putting my real name up all over the place, and I don’t care how much of a jerkwad people consider me1 when I ask for some kind of source to back up claims of miraculous vitamin cures, we’re able to have a HONCode-certified forum.

30 May 2011
I’ve put up enough of the Basic Crap About All Meds pages to publish them. These include:

Pages on the differences between brand name & generic medications and meds & supplements are still under construction.

24 May 2011
I finally got all of the HONCode pages up. So just click on the known your sources link here, or on the side bar to the left and follow along.

25 April 2011
The wiki went live, so everything is new.

1 Actually I don't care why people consider me a jerkwad, and I know I put the Ass in Asperger's for a long laundry list of reasons.


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1 While there are plenty of books to help you with hypochondria, for some reason there’s not much in the way of websites. Then again, staying off of the Internet is a large part of curing/managing the disorder.

2 Have I mentioned how open source operating systems for commercial applications is one of the dumbest ideas in the history of dumb ideas?
[begin rant] I rent a dedicated server for Crazy Meds. It’s sitting on a rack somewhere in Southern California along with a bunch of other servers that other people have rented. The hardware is identical, but no two machines have exactly the same operating systems. I don’t even need to see what is on any of the others to know this. If somebody got their server at the exact same time, with the exact same features as I did, I’m confident that there would be noticeable differences in some aspects of the operating systems. So what does this mean? For one thing it means that no two computers in the same office of a single company have the same operating system, and the techs can spend hours figuring out what the fuck the problem could be based on that alone. It also means that application software like IP board that runs the forum here has to have so many fucking user-configurable bells and whistles that even when I read the manual I can’t find every setting, or every location that every flag needs to be set in order for a feature to run the way I want it to run. And in the real world it means you can get an MBA not only with an emphasis on resource planning, but with an emphasis on using SAP - a piece of software so complex there are now college programs on how to use it. You might think, “But don’t people learn how to use Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator in college?” Sure, in order to create stuff. And in a way you’re creating stuff with SAP. But do you get a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis on Photoshop?
Back in the Big Iron Age the operating systems were proprietary, and every computer that took up an entire room with a raised floor and HVAC system, and had less storage and processing power than an iPhone, had the same operating system as every other one, give or take a release level. But when a company bought application software like SAP, they also got the source code, which was usually documented and written in a way to make it easy to modify the hell out of it. Why? Because accounting principles may be the same the world over, and tax laws the same across each country and state, but no two companies have the same format for their reports, invoices, purchase orders and so forth. Standards existed and were universally ignored. If something went wrong it went wrong the same way for everyone, and was easy to track down. People didn’t need to take a college course to learn how to use a piece of software.
I’m not against the open source concept entirely. Back then all the programmers read the same magazines, so we all had the same homebrew utilities. We even had the forerunner to QR Code to scan the longer source code. Software vendors and computer manufacturers sponsored conventions so we could, among other things, swap recipes for such add-ons and utilities. While those things would make our lives easier, they had nothing to do with critical functions of the operating system. Unless badly implemented they would rarely cause key application software to crash and burn. Whereas today, with open source everything, who the hell knows what could be responsible some part of a system failing. [/end rant]


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