Re: SSRI's - permanent long term problems and consequences

November 7, 2004

Jane, you have hit it right on the bullseye: for every spectacular case of

violent suicide or homicidal behaviour on these drugs, there must be hundreds of

thousands of people whose lives have been diminished by their use, either by

themselves or by someone whose life intersects with theirs . And the most

hellish thing about it is that the person ingesting these things loses the

ability to have insight into what is happening to him. I think it was Glitter

who said these drugs and the psychiatrists who push them represent " the beating

heart of evil. " Truly, truly, sorrowfully so. Some day, someone more talented

than I will write the ultimate fantasy, in which the heroes go into the Dark

Forest to vanquish this Evil. Lord of the Intact Neurons trilogy, maybe, or

another 5-part -like series, The Dark is Rising, Part II.

SSRI's - permanent long term problems and

consequences

Some really interesting posts, thanks for the replies. The more I

keep hearing the more I go ..Yep, like that, just like that. A new

thing I hadnt thought of was Cholesterol levels. Hubby has now got

high cholesterol levels which he never had before he went on

SSRI's. We never linked the fact. Derrrrr... Makes me feel stupid

myself. (Like he feels brain damaged and not as intelligent as he

was before) His doctors prescribed Lipitor...Which after reading

your posts on Grapefruit juice, I got out of the cupboard and he's

never going to take those either. (one pill leads to another) He has

weight gain which is permanent but in this case is beneficial so if

someone became obese taking them it is not surprising.

From all the posts you guys sent it appears these drugs are ruining

peoples lives. They certainly did ours. It seems there are slow

insidious permanent changes from taking these things long term.

My information from being a Prozac Lilly rep is 10 yrs old. I dont

know what has been done in the meantime but I thought it a bit odd

that we were not to discourage doctors from putting their patients

on these things for years or life when there were NO long term

studies for their use for years. It never never, obviously, occured

to me (until 01)what the sort of long term effects could be (one

tends to think of short term things only and obvious things).

All the media attention is going to the teen suicides. Perhaps the

real wicked story is the ruining of so many lives, and not just

those of the people who take the stuff but of that of those who live

and do business with them. The ramifications of the negative

effects of the side effects on my husband through his business

losses would go to 40 or 50 or more people.

Obviously there are not many long term proper clinical trial results

out there in general circulation, just a few. (Or am I wrong?)

I have an aquaintance who is a Pfizer rep and manger. I will ask

her about the latest she has available. On the other hand she is

not likely to know negative effects. Anyway, I'll try.

I think I will " detail " my own GP. I used to " detail " him for

Prozac/Eli Lilly and I think I will do it for my own cause now. He

is a generally good bloke and has a brain and not too much ego. I

will ask him to get his reps to get long term use studies. If he

cant get them my guess is that the results dont suit the companies

so they dont get published.

I was really interested to hear what the " side effects " are for you

guys. If I had heard this stuff when hubby had started taking ssri

then our lives would not have been so deranged and he would not have

had permanent damage. I am really interested to read your personal

stories of what it did to " health " and to " business " . It just takes

so long to write back.

Jane

November 7, 2004