Posted by dancingstar on October 27, 2004, at 12:09:24
In reply to Re: I'M FREE - SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT MARKET, posted by CrazyCO on October 27, 2004, at 11:22:17
I don't know what "quite a while" means. I took it for three years. I don't know how much you were taking. I took between 75 and 150 mg. I don't know your background. My family is European. For what it is worth, I've read people with some genetic component have a more difficult time with the drug than others. I don't know for what the drug was prescribed in your case. In mine it was prescribed because I had back pain and because I was tired. (Um, gee, maybe I had fibromyalgia....)
I still feel very strongly that the drug should not be marketed by drug reps to family practice doctors to be given to patients for everything from fibromyalgia and a bad headache to a death in the family. It's a serious drug with potentially deadly reactions both during the time it is taken and while people are trying to stop taking it, and it should only be prescribed by those that know the most about it.
If you escaped from the drug unscathed, consider yourself very fortunate. Then again, perhaps I'm just allergic to it. Who knows? Me and everyone else that has had these problems.
Does anyone else here want to take that chance?
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