So the drug literally changes your brain?? That is wild — anyone have experience?

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

One thing that is still open after FDA_TrackerJim’s answer:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

NurseKim_ATL said:

The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.

I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.

NurseKim_ATL said:

The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.

That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

Moderator note: reminder that nothing in this thread is medical advice, and that clinical claims need a source.