Your genes may hold the key to mental health medication selection
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Are you struggling to find a mental health medication that works for you?
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PEOPLE RESPOND TO MEDICATIONS DIFFERENTLY
Many factors affect individual response to medications. Unique genetic makeup, other medications, and lifestyle factors such as smoking or taking common over-the-counter drugs may all have an impact.1-3
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Trial and error doesn't work very well
For many patients, the journey to finding the right treatment can be long, hard, and discouraging, as they try multiple prescriptions over many months or years, and still may not find the medication that works for them.4,5
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Pharmacogenomics can provide guidance to help find the right mental health medications for you
By looking at your unique genetic profile, pharmacogenomics (PGx) can help identify medications that might work best for you.
IDgenetix PGx testing may help
"Pharmacogenomic testing provides a wonderful avenue for being able to individualize patient care and patient medication choices. It's a wonderful tool to be able to see drug-drug interactions, drug-gene interactions, and lifestyle factors that can affect drug metabolism."
Sherry Smith ARNP, PMHNP
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Your personalized prescription for mental health medication
IDgenetix testing looks at your genes, along with other relevant factors, to help your doctor develop a personalized medication profile, just for you.6 IDgenetix considers three key factors that can affect medication response:
How are health care providers using IDgenetix in their practice?
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Jennifer French, DO
Psychiatric Mental Health Osteopathic Doctor
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Dawn Mason ARNP, PMHNP
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Ask your doctor about IDgenetix to find out if it's right for you
- NICE. Depression in adults: treatment and management. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Guidelines [NG222]. 2022.
- Kennedy, et al. Can J Psychiatry. 2016.
- Park, et al. N Engl J Med. 2019.
- Trivedi, et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2006.
- Rush, et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2006.
- Bradley, et al. J Psychiatr Res. 2018.