Thank you for creating the only anti-depressant that (apparently) works for me. You might just be my pill in shining armor.
Yup, there it is, folks. The results of the DNA test I took which determines which alleles I received from each parent. From both parents I got either a) no pathway to process medication or b) a pathway which only partially processes medication. There are footnotes at the bottom of the page which explain what each number next to the different medications mean - essentially, the medications on the left work for me, the medications in the middle might, and the medications on the right will either not work or they will have detrimental effects, which explains why Prozac sent me in a downwards spiral.
And there are the opioids (pain killers) that will work for me. Guess my 'rents won't have to worry about me getting high on morphine or Vicodin with all the other kids in college.
Now I am just extremely worried about what this means for my other medications, which my mother and psychiatrist gave me funny looks for because I should be happy I now have this information (hello, anxiety?). Primarily, my birth control. A few months back I got the implant called Nexplanon which is supposed to prevent pregnancy for three years. It's basically a small straw surgically placed in my arm. But now that I know I cannot process the majority of medications I'm worried it is not 99% effective as it is supposed to be... which is really, really picking at me because I thought I had the next 3 years of my life covered and dealt with. I'm not active now, but I know I am headed for college, and maybe in a few years if something happened.. I just wanted to be prepared. And now I might not be.
Plus, it might be the reason I'm bleeding for all but one week of the month.
How encouraging.
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