Posted by Bob on August 6, 2006, at 14:55:07 [reposted on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26 | original URL]
In reply to Re: According to them - no such thing as withdrawal..., posted by SLS on August 6, 2006, at 14:38:54
> I like Schatzberg. It is beyond me how he could make a statement like that. It is unfortunate. I don't think it is so much having a loyalty to the drug companies. I think it is more having a loyalty to the drugs themselves.
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I honestly think that people who haven't gone through a serious withdrawal cannot possibly fathom what it entails. The fact that he is on the Wyeth board is awfully suspicous. Granted, there is a wide variety of sensitivity to discontinuation, but unfortunately, the percentage of people who experience serious problems are definitely downplayed, as well as the severity of these problems. There is just no motivation whatsoever by drug companies to have this info played up, and the doctors are simply not taking it seriously in many cases. I've unfortunately been taking these hellish compounds for over ten years, and am a member of the Effexor discontinuation club, as well as Paxil and God knows what else. I would go into my doctors' offices and tell them time and time again about how terrible it was to get off of them, and in the end, I'm not sure it made a difference to anyone. I think that they take it with a grain of salt and figure that this must be some kind of freak occurrence. Especially when some perky drug rep comes in for the next appointment and assures them that there is "no such thing as withdrawal" with these meds.
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