I think I have been

EmmaZahn — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:49:00 +0000

In reply to This website was instrumental

I think I have been prescribed all of the SSRIs listed plus some earlier tricyclic anti-depressants. And I actually tried most of them. Silly me.

I really liked my first dose of Seroquel. It majorly mellowed me out for the first three hours then I broke out in monster hives from hell and it was de-prescribed.

Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft induced parkinsonism (and other nastier side effects). Fortunately, I recognized it early because my father had Parkinson's and got off them soon enough that most of the symptoms reversed.

Only the first one I took, Triavil with extra heavy doses of Elavil on the side, really numbed my emotions. It turned me into an uber-rational OCD worker bee. What I was being treated for at the time was anorexia and one of the side effects, confirmed by multiple doctors, was weight gain that never ever goes away even after you stop taking it. It really screws with the endocrine system. Great thing to give an anorexic, right? Guess I was lucky that my anorexia was not the typical image-related one. I just would not, could not eat anything if I was stressed and I was really, really stressed at the time.

What I always wanted but could never get was something I could take when things were really bad but then stop when things were better like aspirin or acetaminophen for a headache or an anti-histamine for allergies or a beta-blocker for performance anxiety. Guess it is just too bad my wish conflicts with the aims of the pharmaceutical industry's goal of making us all drug-dependent on them for our entire lives. That and their search for Soma, the holy grail in social-control medicine.

This website was instrumental

Orion — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:57:33 +0000

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This website was instrumental in making me realize to myself that I wasn't alone. I talked to a doctor at Harborview who told me he had actually read about children on SSRIs who had started to "eat the furniture." His own words there.

There is something just off about all of it.

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I think I have been

This website was instrumental