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(Message started by: UN_SOLVED on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 12:42pm)

Title: New Warnings
Post by UN_SOLVED on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 12:42pm

If you haven't already seen this...read it
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040322/ap_on_he_me/antidepressants_warning_2

Unsolved

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by Luke63 on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 1:18pm

Hey...thanks Michael..I know a good friend who just got on effexor...i'll have hime read this :o...later Luke

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by Superpain on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 1:27pm

A friend of mine got some effexor and really liked it for some reason. He gave me one and urged me to try it, and out of sheer stupidity, I did.
BIGFUCKINGMISTAKE!!!
I would rather have a ch than do that again!
That shit ranks right up there with Halidol!!!(sp?)

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by Flounder on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 1:45pm

Effexor is bad news.
Trying to get off it is insane. The withdrawal symptoms are horrible and go on for months.
My wife went through it and is still having withdrawal symptoms months later. The Docs don't tell you this when you go on it.

Thanks for the link Unsolved.

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by JDH on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 3:28pm

I saw the article on the CNN website this A.M.
A few months ago I was prescribed Lexapro for depression. I took it for about 2 weeks and WHOA! that was some weird stuff so I stopped taking it.

Jim

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by Karla on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 4:50pm

I will probably be on effexor for life or at least as long as I have ch. I was suicidal due to ch before I started taking the effexor and that gave me my sanity back. It can do what it is supose to if you let it. However, I have tried to go off of it a couple of times and have such major anxiety attacks that I just cant back off the dosages. That sucks. I wish my dr would have warned me about the withdrawl affects before I was put on it.

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by FZfan on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 6:24pm

geez aren't meds weird? I took lexpro for two weeks and felt, well, nothing. Oh well, more pills to add to the ineffective pill bottle collection.

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by t_h_b on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 6:28pm

I learned that antidepressants in general could contribute to suicide because an extremely depressed person is too depressed to take any action and thus is less likely to commit suicide than one slightly less depressed. When depressed potential suicides take antidepressants they become able to function and can become acutual suicides.

Don't know of any research on this.

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by t_h_b on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 6:31pm

on 03/22/04 at 13:27:33, Superpain wrote:

That shit ranks right up there with Halidol!!!(sp?)

We used to give agitated elderly patients injections of "Vitamin H" (haloperidol/Haldol). The only problem is sometimes it has a paradoxical effect and they REALLY go wild. That was no fun at all and you're right, that stuff is bad shit.

Title: Re: New Warnings
Post by FZfan on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 6:38pm

but what if you're taking an anti-depressant but are not suffering from depression?

Even when I'm in a CH cycle, I'm not depressed. My doc thought it (lexpro) might be worth a try as a preventative. I gave up on it after about 2 and half weeks, but I felt no side effects or any effects for that matter. But, who knows? Meds affect everyone differently, maybe it's just my metabolism or something.

I thought maybe taking an anti-depressant when you're not depressed would make you extra happy, but that didn't happen either. ;;D