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Posted by Bob on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:25
Some of the statements made in this article by the drug companies are sickening. It's articles like this that make me wonder how this era of psychopharmacology will be viewed in the distant future. Are these meds, in the long run, doing more harm than good in many cases?
Posted by Phillipa on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26
In reply to According to them - no such thing as withdrawal..., posted by Bob on August 6, 2006, at 13:24:35
I'm going off luvox now and am dizzy but that's all. I bite a small piece of the med off and take and sometimes it helps. Love Phillipa
Posted by SLS on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26
In reply to According to them - no such thing as withdrawal..., posted by Bob on August 6, 2006, at 13:24:35
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.
- Scott
Posted by Bob on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26
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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> - Scott
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.
Posted by linkadge on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26
In reply to Re: According to them - no such thing as withdrawa » SLS, posted by Bob on August 6, 2006, at 14:55:07
The "streetword" for the situation is withdrawl.
Linkadge
Posted by SLS on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26
In reply to Re: According to them - no such thing as withdrawa » SLS, posted by Bob on August 6, 2006, at 14:55:07
> > I like Schatzberg. It is beyond me how he could make a statement like that. It is unfortunate.
> The fact that he is on the Wyeth board is awfully suspicous.
How sad.
:-(
- Scott
Posted by SFY on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26
In reply to Re: According to them - no such thing as withdrawa, posted by SLS on August 6, 2006, at 19:30:11
> > > I like Schatzberg. It is beyond me how he could make a statement like that. It is unfortunate.
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> > The fact that he is on the Wyeth board is awfully suspicous.
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> How sad.
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> :-(
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> - ScottActually, the article doesn't say that he's on Wyeth's board. It only says:
"Schatzberg recently chaired a Wyeth-sponsored panel of physicians that offered guidelines for how to manage 'antidepressant discontinuation syndrome,' the preferred medical term for what a layperson would think of as withdrawal. He has also served as a consultant to several other pharmaceutical companies."
which may or may not signify a conflict.
And just to be sure, I checked Wyeth's website and he's definitely not on the board.
Posted by Crazy Horse on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26
In reply to According to them - no such thing as withdrawal..., posted by Bob on August 6, 2006, at 13:24:35
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060806/ap_on_he_me/stuck_on_meds;_ylt=AkLEr2eCFxlIB9lhjmI3QRys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-
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> Some of the statements made in this article by the drug companies are sickening. It's articles like this that make me wonder how this era of psychopharmacology will be viewed in the distant future. Are these meds, in the long run, doing more harm than good in many cases?
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>Let "THEM" go on Paxil or Parnate for 4 months then try to wean off of it. Until they d0 this i don't give a sh*t what they say!
MJ
Posted by Bob on August 8, 2006, at 12:58:26
In reply to Re: According to them - no such thing as withdrawal..., posted by Crazy Horse on August 8, 2006, at 9:28:16
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> Let "THEM" go on Paxil or Parnate for 4 months then try to wean off of it. Until they d0 this i don't give a sh*t what they say!
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> MJ
>I have often had this thought throughout my years of treatments. I wonder what would happen if doctors, as part of their training, were required to take something like Effexor for 6 months and then come off it relatively quickly, what would their opinion on this matter be then? Of course it's just a thought about a hypothetical situation that would actually be practical.
Posted by Jeroen on August 11, 2006, at 3:45:22
In reply to According to them - no such thing as withdrawal..., posted by Bob on August 6, 2006, at 13:24:35
statistics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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