Posted by linkadge on March 11, 2007, at 16:33:13
In reply to Systemic bias, posted by clint878 on March 11, 2007, at 13:15:42
>I'm still not convinced. I don't doubt you have >a problem, linkage - those are serious symptoms. >But there are a lot of things that can cause >similar symptoms and there are many treatments >for those symptoms. It's the cause of the >symptoms I would question, not the symptoms >themselves.
I have heard of people having the same symptoms. Why is it so inconcievable? Yes, I have taken other meds, but not nearly as long as SSRI's. The symptoms started the first time I really tried to get off SSRI's and have persisted ever since. Why would they imediatly abate upon reinstitution of an SSRI?
Some people have similar problems with neuroleptics, where the discontinuation will uncover certain movement problems and wierd body sensations that will only abate when the drug is resumed.
I can't think of anything else that would account for the issues. I am not clinically depressed, nor to I have clinically significant anxiety.
>But a closer look at this reveals a study by one >researcher, who found that only patients for >whom benzos were initially prescribed for >anxiety experienced these symptoms. There were >no patients in a control group for whom benzos >were initially prescribed for insomnia AT ALL >who developed any such "protracted withdrawal."This is one situation. I have no doubt that certain substances if ingested long enough can induce alterations in brain morhpology and functionality. I will try to find the one study I read where animals exposed to SSRI's for long enough developed morhological chnges to the basil ganglia. We already know that anitpsychotics can induce such physical brain changes. The brain doesn't always just spring back from such peturbaton.
>Could it be that anxiety or depression is >responsible for the large majority of such >complaints of "protracted withdrawal?" It's easy >to ruminate about what might have happened when >your life now isn't what you want it to be.
But thats the thing. My life is going better now than it ever was on medications. I will graduate from university in one year. My marks have improved substantially since stopping SSRI's.
I am not really trying to sit and blame all of my lifes problems on SSRI's. What I am attributing to SSRI's is very specific.
For instance, in specific, within one week of stopping zoloft, it felt like somebody was twisting my head to the left. Even years later, I feel like somebody is twisting my head to the left. I've never heard of this as a symptom of anxiety. Drugs that help anxiety, ie benzo's do not remove the sensation. Zoloft in specic, is the only drug that removes the sensations within half an hour of taking it.
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