How Seriously Should You Take a Diagnosis of PMDD?
Executive Summary
- The medical establishment claims that PMDD is a real disorder that requires the use of antidepressants.
- How much evidence is there for these claims?
Introduction
PMDD is a search term with a substantial amount of interest. If you read any medical establishment websites, they state it is a legitimate and serious disorder. These websites never question PMDD; they almost appear to have been written from one perspective.
Without any connection to the medical establishment, we analyze these claims.
Important Topic #1: The Pseudoscience of Increasing Antidepressant Dosages
The most common treatment for PMDD is antidepressants.
Here is an excellent example from the website of the Mayo Clinic on Paxil dosage of what the medical establishment claims about how many mental disorders and how specific the claims dosage is for these disorders.
If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
This makes it sound like the logic for the dosage is scientifically worked out — when it isn’t.
An MD may go from a dosage of 20 MG to 100 MG with an antidepressant as they see fit without evidence connecting the dosage to the patient’s needs.
This is also reinforced in the following quote from the same article from the Mayo Clinic website.
For posttraumatic stress disorder:
Adults—At first, 20 milligrams (mg) once a day, usually taken in the morning. Your doctor may adjust your dose as needed. However, the dose usually is not more than 50 mg per day.For social anxiety disorder:
Adults—At first, 12.5 milligrams (mg) once a day, usually taken in the morning. Your doctor may adjust your dose as needed. However, the dose is usually not more than 37.5 mg per day.For premenstrual dysphoric disorder:
Adults—At first, 12.5 milligrams (mg) once a day, usually taken in the morning. Your doctor may adjust your dose as needed. However, the dose is usually not more than 25 mg per day.
Here are some questions that should come to mind.
- Does the Mayo Clinic know that these are the correct dosages for each condition?
- If that is true, why do MDs have so much latitude in increasing these dosages?
Also, are social anxiety disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder real disorders?
How Eli Lilly controlled the creation of PMDD as a disorder is covered in the article How Eli Lilly Pushed Through a Very Dubious New Condition Called PMDD.
If you have difficulty separating carts or are frustrated at not finding your keys, you might have PMDD and require antidepressants. And if you do — the Mayo Clinic can tell you the exact dosage for a disorder that does not exist.
The quote continues.
She (Stotland) said she feared making the condition a mental disorder would lead to women with problems such as stress or depression getting lumped into a diagnosis of PMDD.
While studies showed antidepressants worked in about 60% of women with PMDD, one clinical trial found basic calcium supplements were effective in 55% of women with premenstrual symptoms.
So PMDD exists as a categorized disorder because drug companies wanted it to be a disorder. Yet the Mayo Clinic reports dosages for PMDD as if it is scientifically determined and assumes that PMDD is real. The Mayo Clinic would never explain to its readers that the drug companies rigged the creation of PMDD because the Mayo Clinic is part of the same corrupt medical establishment.
This video explains how Prozac was “remarketed” as Sarafem was increased in price by a factor of three by Eli Lilly. So if you had depression, you paid one price, but if you were diagnosed with PMDD, you were prescribed Sarafem at three times the price. This also raises the question of how many women prescribed Serafem knew they were on Prozac. It’s not difficult to find out, as Fluoxetine is the drug that is called Prozac, but it is an interesting question nonetheless. Recall that Prozac was developed in the 1980s, was approved in parts of Europe in 1986, and was approved by the FDA in 1987.
Triple The Price for a Drug That is Repurposed
Pharma companies continually argue that their prices are necessary to support their R&D. However, Eli Lilly did not incur any more development costs with Sarafem, yet they still chose to charge patients three times the cost of Prozac.
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