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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 151736" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I've been thinking about this question since you put it out there- it is a good question and I hope the research can someday lead to a "test" that tells us for sure if the issue is bipolar or not.</p><p></p><p>The only answers for myself that I can come up with are that if it isn't preventable (and right now it isn't), I don't think I would want to know if my kid could maybe someday come down with a problem that isn't a problem right now. And I sure wouldn't want any test results like that becoming accessible to sd, government, etc.</p><p></p><p>That being said, with the small percentage of doubt that I have left in my mind over my difficult child's current diagnosis (because it is a problem now in his situation), if he could take a test now and determine if this is somehow in his genetic makeup, it appears that it would help.</p><p></p><p>I'm trying to think of it like cancer- if a person's current evaluations were inconclusive about whether or not a person had cancer, but they thought the person did. Would it help to know if the tendency for cancer was in their genetic makeup? </p><p></p><p>I'm not sure I understand this- how can they find a genetic factor for it but not come up with a test to determine if they actually have it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 151736, member: 3699"] I've been thinking about this question since you put it out there- it is a good question and I hope the research can someday lead to a "test" that tells us for sure if the issue is bipolar or not. The only answers for myself that I can come up with are that if it isn't preventable (and right now it isn't), I don't think I would want to know if my kid could maybe someday come down with a problem that isn't a problem right now. And I sure wouldn't want any test results like that becoming accessible to sd, government, etc. That being said, with the small percentage of doubt that I have left in my mind over my difficult child's current diagnosis (because it is a problem now in his situation), if he could take a test now and determine if this is somehow in his genetic makeup, it appears that it would help. I'm trying to think of it like cancer- if a person's current evaluations were inconclusive about whether or not a person had cancer, but they thought the person did. Would it help to know if the tendency for cancer was in their genetic makeup? I'm not sure I understand this- how can they find a genetic factor for it but not come up with a test to determine if they actually have it? [/QUOTE]
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