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What is No treatments?

Use this to fill in portions of time when you were not taking any treatment or therapy for your condition or symptoms. By explicitly selecting this 'treatment' you can help yourself and others understand whether 'no treatment' had any effect on your outcomes.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose	# of patients	# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Other	21	1
Don't know	11	1
General health	8	2
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)	5	0
MS (Multiple Sclerosis)	5	0
Treat my mood condition(s)	4	1

See all 21 reasons taken ▼

See all 84 patients currently using No treatments

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe	2
Moderate	2
Mild	2
None	5

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with No treatments

See all 28 reported side effects ▼ See top 6 reported side effects ▲
Bowel problems	2	2
Stiffness/Spasticity	2	2
Anxious mood	2	2
test	2	2
Major Depressive Disorder	2	2
Mania	2	2
Eye pain	1	1
Hyperventilation	1	1
Self injury or harm	1	1
Suicidal thoughts or urges	1	1
Self medicating	1	1
Self isolation	1	1
Low self esteem	1	1
Increased fatigue	1	1
Migraine headaches	1	1
instability	1	1
feel like i might relapse	1	1
feeling like i might snap on someone	1	1
Pain worsened	1	1
Anxiety attacks	1	1
Numbness and tingling in feet	1	1
Insomnia	1	1
Hospitalization	1	1
Depressed mood	1	1
Pain	1	1
Fatigue	1	1
Brain fog	1	1
Blurry vision	1	1

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using No treatments (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice	9
Did not seem to work	8
Other	7
Not indicated	3
Side effects too severe	2
Course of treatment ended	2
Personal research	1

See all 23 patients who’ve stopped using No treatments

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼ Reported Duration Hide details ▲

Currently Using No treatments

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0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
0	0	1	3	3	21

Stopped Using No treatments

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0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
2	0	5	4	3	9

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of No treatments

Always	7	64%
Usually	0	0%
Sometimes	1	9%
Never	3	27%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of No treatments

Very	3	27%
Somewhat	0	0%
A little	0	0%
Not at all	8	73%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of No treatments

$200+	1	14%
$100-199	0	0%
$50-99	1	14%
$25-49	0	0%
< $25	5	71%

Patient Evaluations

See all 11 patient evaluations

G8RMommy

Sex: F

Sensation: None

Overall: None

Cognition: none

Vision: mild

Speech: none

Swallowing: none

Upper limb: mild

Walking: mild
G8RMommy

since Nov 24, 2009
Efficacy ?Can't tell for General health
Side Effects None
Advice/Tips I chose to go untreated for 12 years based on the advice of my "second opinion" neuro. After living blissfully ignorant for 12 years, and just "accepting" th... See full evaluation

mountabora

Sex: F

Depression: 0

Mania: 1

Emotional: 0

Anxiety: 0

Compulsion: 0

External Stress: Severe

27 F

Function: High

Distress: Low
mountabora

since Jun 17, 2006
Efficacy Moderate for Treat my mood condition(s)
Side Effects Moderate
See full evaluation

See all 11 patient evaluations

Report created on February 11, 2012.

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