One thing that I’d like to go back to is that this was going to be a placebo control trial--
Yes, yes.
-- and what your thoughts were about being randomised and perhaps ending up in the placebo group - would that have mattered to you?
I thought about it and I think the answer, it didn’t matter to me from the point of view of taking part in the trial. I think it would have been interesting to me to know how I would react in that situation, because they do say that you are - how shall we say - influenced by, you know, your mental state at the time as much as anything else. So I’d be interested to know whether I was one of those people that was influenced or not. So it didn’t concern me, and I did think about it and I made a positive decision to go ahead regardless.
And you wouldn’t have known during the trial whether you were on the placebo. Do you know if they’d have told you at the end?
They would have told me, I think when I asked a question of the doctor at the time, they would let you into it at the end, obviously not during the course of it.
They would have told you. I would like to think I would have been aware [laughs], because I actually asked the question what happens, you know, if things weren’t happening, because, you know, it’s these moments when they come you want to take advantage of them [laughs]. And if it wasn’t working then I’d want to take some other form of help and basically they said you could drop out of the trial at any stage, and so that satisfied me on that particular question.
