I confess to not understanding why anyone should play "lab rat" with an unproven treatment UNTIL the well established, predicatable, and effective treatments have been tried and failed.

Self-interest, for me, is to get effective relief. Yet, year after year, the same pattern appears in messages.

A new med has hit the medical journals; folks write that their doc has given it to them and they are asking for others experiences and/or reporting side effects/effectiveness; a year or more of such messages flow until some degree of collective judgment begins to emerge here. But over the 30+ years that I've been following the medical literature, a fair number of meds have been the next savior only to disappear in a year or two.

Years ago, CONSUMER REPORTS magazine used to say: "Don't buy the first year of a new model car."