Our team

A few years ago, as an adult, I was prescribed SSRIs and told I'd tolerate them “fairly well”. What followed was an emotional rollercoaster — mood swings, disrupted sleep, the sense that my brain had become someone else's laboratory and I was merely the subject.

When I went looking for real answers, I found the information existed — rigorous, regulated, peer-reviewed — but scattered, contradictory and buried in jargon. The problem wasn't me. The system was broken.

I'm autistic and have ADHD. I don't process facts in isolation — I need to see how they connect: mechanism, side effects, interactions, evidence, the whole map.

When that map is fragmented and inconsistently labelled, it isn't a mild inconvenience — it's paralysing. I wasn't confused because I lacked intelligence; I was confused because nothing joined up.

Something deceptively simple: one place where you can look up a UK medicine and see what it is, what it does, what the regulators say, the side effects and how common they are, the interactions — and, crucially, where every fact comes from, with links back to the source.

Not a replacement for medical advice. Not a forum of opinions. Just enough clear, sourced understanding to have a real conversation with your doctor.

I kept waiting for someone else to fix it, and eventually admitted the obvious: I have the motivation, I care deeply about pharmacology, and my pattern-seeking brain is an asset here. So I stopped waiting and built it myself.

It isn't a business and it isn't for sale. findmeds.uk^™is free, carries no advertising, and makes no money. It exists because I needed it — and I know I'm not the only one.

I don't do all of it alone. A long-standing friend, Vlad, gives his time voluntarily to help with the things a researcher overlooks — plain language, clarity, and how the site feels to a newcomer.

His help is unpaid and informal. findmeds.uk^™ remains my personal, non-commercial project.