Crazy Meds Talk ver 9.0 is Open for Business

http://www.crazymeds.us/CrazyTalk/index.php?

Or stop by the Crazy Meds site and click on the usual link to the forum.

There are just a few boards up for antidepressants, anticonvulsants / mood stabilizers and antipsychotics. Plus some generic forum crap. I'll keep adding boards until I'm satisfied. I figured everyone will need some time to adjust to the new software and play around with all the bells'n'whistles.

Change is bad.

Crazy Meds Talk ver 9.0 is Under Construction

The new software is happy.

As there was little notice from the previous domain host and they suddenly got all tight-assed with the bandwidth, we were unable to download all of the previous forum. Make that we were only able to download a little bit of the previous forum.

So I'm pretty much having to rebuild from scratch.

Everyone gets to register again. Yay!

All those messages - lost to bit heaven.

Life is hard, then you die.

Once I get enough of the various boards created I'll open the forum up to the general public.

At Last the DNS Record Has Been Updated!

Expect the medications section of Crazy Meds to be up within 24 hours.

Why this took so freaking long:

1. The registrar told me I owed them money. Unfortunately they kept sending the notices to an e-mail address I kept telling them for two fucking years I no longer used.
2. I had to pay a collections company first. There's nothing more fun than giving a credit card number to someone in prison. Then I get to inform said registrar that the collection account is paid up.
3. Once the billing depart is satisfied they hand my problem off to their transfer department in the U.K. Now there is a nice seven-hour time difference. So factor in a two-hour turn around time with responses and that's about one e-mail exchange a day.
4. I would get some vague e-mails from said person at the transfer office.
5. It's summer, Maddy is visiting, so that means I get nice and ill for a couple of days.
6. Now I'm supposed to remember the password I used two years ago on that account. Good thing I did.
7. After all that, the DNS record gets changed today. Two fucking weeks to straighten this out.

Now we can get back to work on the forum. We couldn't do that with the IP address only. The software expected crazymeds.org

And Now We're Back Up

The drug information pages are back up. Front Page and ftp are working. I'm not to sure about e-mail just yet.

We'll see how it goes from here.

And We're Back Down Again.

I've opened a ticket.

Hey, we deal with bipolar disorder a lot. One should expect yo-yo-ness. I see the site via the non-propagated address, so I'm guessing it's just some DNS stuff or something. I don't know, but I'm not too worried about it.

Crazy Meds Main Site is Back Up

The main part of Crazy Meds is back on the air. I.e. all the drug information pages are once again available. Maddy and I are working to get the forum back up. My e-mail at Crazy Meds is working again as well. Keep checking here and at the what's new page for further details.

Site Updates 13 July - 20 July 2007

07/20/2007 -

• I promised more new content. Thanks to girrl88 we have pages on Invega (paliperidone)! New content about a new med that isn't even that old. Sweeet.
• How the hell could I have forgotten "Interesting stuff you doctor probably won't tell you about BuSpar"?
• Found this article, which explains how the drug companies are able to fudge the numbers in their favor for the studies. I've added it to the page explaining my pages on drug efficacy.
• While working on the Invega pages I figured I could make the section on how Risperdal works a bit clearer. You still have to scroll all the way to the bottom of an over-long page to find it, but that's something for later to deal with.

07/14/2007 -

• Geez, I have been sleeping through Effexor XR's approvals or what? So the page is updated a bit, and is pretty much all about the XR version. The latest PI sheet is available for Effexor XR as well.

07/13/2007 -

• Updated Wellbutrin's approvals to include Wellbutrin XL's approval to prevent seasonal major depression for people with seasonal affective disorder. That includes getting the latest PI sheet for Wellbutrin XL.

Updates to Crazy Meds 5 July - 12 July 2007

07/12/2007 -

• Updated Risperdal's approvals to include pediatric schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Not that we deal with kids here, but an approval is an approval. I also fixed the screwed up katakana on the Risperdal pages and added links to Russian and Arabic PI sheets. I think all of my non-Latin fonts got hosed during a Front Page hiccough followed by a mass update. The errors are now being fixed as I come across them, as I originally thought it was just a browser error on my end.
• Corrected some grammatical wackiness that was an artifact from a previous version of the benzodiazepines page.
• As mentioned in the update of 5 July, I needed a hall of shame. Presenting Crazy Meds' Copyright Violators' and Plagiarizers' Halls of Shame. As Copyscape and I find them, the better examples of both types of intellectual property theft will be presented as I deal with them. Not-so-egregious cases that are quickly resolved will never show up here.

07/06/2007 -

• Updated the Lexapro page with a whole bunch of international PI sheets.
• Also found some Topamax, Prozac and Paxil.
• Fixed and/or added the names of medications in non-Western fonts. Now a bunch of question marks shouldn't appear. At least they look fine now.

07/05/2007 -

• Updated the Zoloft page a bit, as the discussion about its effect on dopamine reuptake inhibition came up yet again.
• The intellectual property theft is getting out of hand. Not just with the couple of annoying thieves I've had to deal with of late. I've had people on various fora copy an entire page here and there, often with credit, sometimes not. People on boards do that to everyone, big and small, so I would shrug it off. But I'm now seeing all sorts of wholesale copying done of entire pages that goes beyond the lack of credit. Oh no, the pages with all of my content are presented as if written by people involved with various sites without a forum or on a non-forum part of the site. So I'm protecting the site via Copyscape. Thus banners of diverse sizes like this:

I may have to set up an intellectual property theft hall of shame, in addition to the legal notices that will be sent out.

Crazy Meds Site Updates for 3 July 2007

• Finally, new content! Jessica sent in some information on BuSpar and once the stress of having to micromanage the overly-complicated life of an utterly ungrateful person was lifted, I could put the new data into our spiffy new format. So here they are, BuSpar pages! Yay! Coming soon, Invega.
• The bibliography has a new look. At this point it's become easier just to show you the source material than to list it all.