Drug treatments appear to be the area where false beliefs are most prevalent among treatments. In general, there are widespread beliefs that the drugs used in treatments are addictive, increase sleep, impair thinking and decision-making abilities, cause weight gain, impair sexual functions, change personality, and cause infertility. It is seen that old generation drugs frequently cause some of these side effects, but new generation drugs have a more innocent profile regarding these side effects. The main principle is not to impair the quality of life while improving the existing problematic situation. By making a detailed evaluation, your doctor will be able to select the drug with sensitivity to side effects, stay away from old drugs unless necessary, and choose the most appropriate drug for improving quality of life, weight gain, sexual side effects, risk of addiction, drowsiness.
How comprehensive is it? Even if medication is selected with an evaluation and plan, some side effects may occur. It may be seen more prominently, especially in people with high sensitivity to side effects. However, it is possible to eliminate any side effects that may occur due to medication in various ways. At this point, you should contact your doctor and share the situation. As the patient's relative, it is important to motivate the patient for treatment and medication use. It is important to be empathetically supportive without pressuring the patient to use medication. It should not be forgotten that there is a solution to the side effects that may occur due to medication.
When choosing between medications, if there is a medication that has been used by someone in the person's past treatment history or a person in their family who has responded well, that medication should be preferred first. Drug selection should be made individually, taking into account tolerability and drug interactions. When drug selection is made taking all these into consideration, the patient's probability of benefiting from the drug increases while the probability of experiencing side effects decreases.
Drugs generally do not show an effect in the first 2-3 weeks of use, and the effect begins gradually after 3 weeks. For this reason, one should not conclude that using it for 1 week does not provide any benefit. One should wait for the time required for the effect to pass.
Do not worry if there is not enough response from the medicine. strengthen the treatment There are many ways to. In other words, the response received from a single drug does not alone determine the outcome of the treatment; there may be many other possibilities related to the disease.
One point that should not be forgotten is that milligrams of drugs should not be compared with each other. 1 milligram of drug A used by one person may be equivalent to 500 milligrams of drug B used by your relative. In other words, the idea that the higher the milligram, the heavier the medicine is and that such a heavy medicine was given to me because my disease is bad, or that there will be many side effects at such a high dose, has no medical validity.
Combining drug use and therapy will positively affect the treatment response.
Another important point in drug use is the use of the drug under the supervision of a doctor. Using medication without follow-up may lead to undesirable results. After the person benefits from the medication, he/she should not continue the medication on his/her own and carry out the process without the supervision of a doctor, and should be examined for some medication-related follow-ups, even at regular intervals. Another point of this situation is that the person may tend to stop taking the medication after benefiting from it or may tend to take a break from the medication for a week or two to test how he/she is doing. This creates problems due to sudden discontinuation of the drug and the patient experiences various complaints. When there is such a tendency, it is necessary to motivate and support the patient not to stop taking the medication suddenly.
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