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Posted by Dale on June 24, 2001, at 11:18:27
Hello all,
I posted a message above and received a couple of responses, but I am hoping to get more info from people on this great list. Please see earlier message above for my story (Zoloft to Paxil - tics).
Recently I got myself all scared by doing a bit of research. I found the book Prozac Backlash , by Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. (Harvard Medical School),
and started reading it. Wow - it sounded like me. He talked about people being on SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil) and how the medicine masks tics until you start going off of them, which I was doing. He also said that the neurological disorders such as facial and whole-body tics can indicate brain damage! He also talked about tardive dyskinesia (tics), and parkinson-like movements. This really scared me and just finding this out while going off zoloft and onto paxil
makes me wonder if I should forget the paxil and just continue to go off the zoloft.A respone to my earlier message from Sulpicia above was interesting and made me feel better - she thought that the author's agenda was anti-pschiatry, and that there TD is only from the older psychiatric drugs. But, because we do not know the long-term effects of the anti-depressants, can we be sure that people are not developing TD or other serious illnesses that cause brain damage? The book I mention above is not the only one I cam across - there were several others by different doctors taht had some similar findings.
Just though I would throw this out to the list and see what happens.
Thanks, and hope to hear from you all soon.
Dale
Posted by judy1 on June 24, 2001, at 12:29:09
In reply to Tardive dyskinesia and Antidepressants, posted by Dale on June 24, 2001, at 11:18:27
Hi Dale,
My shrink is part of the paxil lawsuit in California and has seen cases of TD from paxil. He is most definitely not an anti-med shrink (you should see what he has me on). But I agree 100% that the SSRI's are just beginning to have statistics compiled in this area and firmly believe they will show similar effects of AP's. Good luck with your search- judy
Posted by SalArmy4me on June 24, 2001, at 20:53:45
In reply to Tardive dyskinesia and Antidepressants, posted by Dale on June 24, 2001, at 11:18:27
Posted by Janelle on June 24, 2001, at 21:30:22
In reply to Tardive dyskinesia and Antidepressants, posted by Dale on June 24, 2001, at 11:18:27
I have heard of that book you found, Prozac Backlash , by Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. (Harvard Medical School), as well as one called Talking Back to Prozac by Dr. Peter Breggin (don't know where he's affiliated) and you sound just like me - I got scared out of my mind when I started reading it so I stopped.
However, I have also read and heard that the authors of these books have an anti-psychiatry agenda, and that the TD is only from the older (tricyclic) psychiatric drugs.
I can tell you that after being on Paxil for SEVEN years, it seemed to stop working and my ignorant doc didn't know that Paxil is like the WORST for withdrawal and had me go off it waaaaaay to quickly. I did NOT have any tics, twitches whatsoever. BUT, I was SOOOOOOOO sick from withdrawal (headache, severe nausea, fatigue on top of my existing fatigue, chills and sweats with no fever just to name a few)
Finding this board and another site which described every symptom I was having was very reassuring, especially about the "electric head" because I had no idea how to describe that, how to put it into words.
Since these meds affect us all so differently, I can't tell you what to do about going on Paxil or not; all I can relate is my "good" experience on it, which I think became too much and too long of a good thing.
If you continue with Paxil and then decide it's not for you, PLEASE taper off VERY gradually and slowly - it will be worth the time and wait to spare yourself what I and many others have gone through with getting off it.
I had tried Zoloft too (worked a bit, then plateaued), and had no trouble stopping that one. Go figure!
Good luck and please stay in touch on here with any info you find out. I will do the same.
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