Posted by dove on December 8, 2004, at 9:41:36
In reply to Re: The SSRI controversy, posted by lia mason on December 7, 2004, at 22:46:12
I have to add that I ended up hospitalized during the first month of initiating Prozac, and again during the first month of starting high dose Effexor. The stabilizing of the mood hadn't kicked in yet and I had excess energy with a lot of negative emotions. I made attempts on my life both of those times, and have never experienced the same genre of emotional instability starting up on any other meds. When my daughter began Paxil she became what the doc's labeled as "agitated manic." However, I believe she was going through the exact same reaction to the Paxil as what I went through with Prozac and Effexor.
Now, I am aware of this reaction and have been able to manage quite well during those first four weeks. If you know what to expect, understand what your body and mind are doing, and have someone who cares helping you work through that hellish time period I think the dangers can be lessened. Unfortunately, most people don't know what is happening to them--other than the reality of the negative feelings--and no doc's I know will even give this phenomenon an official "heads-up." It is a very dangerous time period for many people and there really should be some sort of official warning and very--very close supervision of anyone initiating SSRI-type meds.
dove
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