On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:38:56 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote:


"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

The problem you are going to have is not so much the medication as the
underlying condition. Hop over to the AOPA web site and read this...
http://www.aopa.org/members/files/medical/psych2.html


Actually it is both. The FAA refuses to accept any legitimate
purpose for drugs that have any psychoactive connotations. This
means no SSRIs period, no wellbutrin for smoking cessation, no
weak dosages of trycyclics for autonomic muscle spasms, etc...

They have their heads up their asses with regard to this.

I don't think so. I had a friend who smoked but was otherwise completely
healthy both mentally and physically. He went on Wellbutrin and before he
even got to the point where you stop smoking he displayed a marked
psychological change. He would flash from angry to sad in a matter of
minutes. He saw it for what it was and stopped taking Wellbutrin. The
problems stopped in a mater of days.

The psychoactive drugs can effect different people different ways and even
the same person in different ways over a period of time.

As do many over-the-counter meds. You take them for a while to see if
there is any adverse side effects and if none, you fly.

Quite some time back I took an antibiotic which killed all the good
critters as well as the bad. I didn't fly, of course part of that was
because I didn't dare get more than about a 100 feet from the can for
a while.

Many people have some reaction to specific foods and probably most
haven't even made the connection. I don't know the numbers, but my
understanding is, it's quite a large number. Just because a bunch
of people have a reaction to ... say tomatoes, they are not a banned
substance and if you have an allergy or reaction to them you report
it, and stay away from tomatoes.

I agree with Ron, if the person has no adverse effects from the drugs
and does not have physiological problems then why ban them when the
purpose for the prescription is not a problem.



Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com