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Originally Posted by St_Kurt  That's not necessarily true.
Pharmacology is very different from cooking so drug dosages are not recipes, but based on individuals and their therapeutic needs.
Imagine if, in order to bake brownies, the ingredient list and amounts were tailored to the baker, their specific oven, their kitchen, the geographic location of their kitchen, etc. It would be really hard to trade recipes. What might be a tasty brownie recipe baked by you in your kitchen could be mud pies when baked by me in mine but there's no way to know unless you've studied the science of kitchen geography chemistry and even then it might still be off. That's pharmacology. 
(I'm not coming down on you personally, just saying in general.)
~SK~ |
So my wording was not correct. As I am a nurse and have been for 20 years and a paramedic for 12 years I do understand medications and dosing as well as therapuetic levels so I do not need someone to explain pharmacology to me, thank you anyway. I have had a couple of really stressful days and I went by memory on that one and should have put a disclaimer in that I went on memory rather than a drug guide.
Just for the record a drug guide does state that for Bipolar it can go as high as 400mg a day in divided doses.
I appologize if I come across rather short but I really do not have the patience or tolerance to be talked down to right now. So what if I made a mistake in my wording. I did not need you to talk down to me.