swab test for anti depressants

Hi Has everyone else have this done. My doctor swab my cheek and sent it out to be tested. They can tell you which antidepressants and antipsychotics drugs your body can handle and which ones to use with caution and some with increased caution and frequent monitoring. The test is thru a place called genesight/assurex health. Its funny because I have tried Celexa/Lexapro/wellbutrin/Cymbalta/paxil/Zoloft and all of these came up on my use with caution list. The only one I recognize that came up on my use as directed list is Prozac which I haven't tried. I just find it interesting that the test shows how your liver would tolerate the meds. Just wondering if anyone else has had this done???

I just checked them out...and it looks like an amazing resource!

Of course, it could come down to whether your physician/insurance absorbs the cost. It may be prohibitive to pay for this out of pocket otherwise?

...but definitely worth looking into!

Here is the link:

http://assurexhealth.com/products/order-process-and-report/

Thanks again for the info Nik!

S.C.

I have never had a swab test, but I did have to spit in a vial and I had to keep spitting(sorry for the grossness) until I reached a certain level on the vial, I still don't know exactly what that was for, I believe it was something very similar, or maybe not it sure hasn't helped my doctor with medicating me.

Well colour me surprised!

Never heard of this before...

Always something new on the horizons....











M.