(The MOTHERS Act) My Icelandic experience

[Guest guest]

FYI

From a woman in Canada, who picked up TIME out of interest in reading the Palin article.Hi Amy,

Please feel free to forward the e-mail -etc.

I believe that if I had stayed on these drugs that I would not be here typing this e-mail to you.

I sincerely believe that if I stayed on them that they would have killed me. The fact that I have been on these drugs of course takes away my credibility and ergo the Catch-22 of the situation.

Thank you for having the courage to fight this fight.

Jennie

2009/7/21 Amy Philo <amyphilo@...>

Do you mind if I forward this?

Sincerely,

Amy Philo

214-705-0169 home817-793-8028 cell

Join the Coalition! Sign the Petition! Stop The MOTHERS Act!

uniteforlife.org

From: Jennie Jonasson amyphilo@...

Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:11:03 PMSubject: My Icelandic experience

Dear Ms. Philo,

Thank you for speaking to me.

My name is Jennie Jonasson. I lived in Iceland from 1998-2007. I live in Canada now with my husband Loftur and my 4 year old daugther Emma in Hampstead, QC.

Tachycardia (when one's heart beats too fast) runs in both sides of my family. I suffered from this from 2002. In 2004 my husband and I unexpectedly became pregnant when I was 38. No one told me that pregnancy makes your heart beat faster.

Shortly before I became pregnant I had been put on Seroxat (Paxil, I think is the American name) instead of a heart medication. I was told that the pregnancy would be "good for you". I was miserable during the pregnancy with my heart racing and was told it would stop after I gave birth.

In hospital after birth, my blood pressure was below 90/60 and my pulse was 105 and often higher.

In hospital they send a medical student studying psychiatry to the bedside of every woman who has given birth. Because I had been put on Seroxat before I could not get help for my high pulse and low blood pressure. I was told I had the "Baby Blues".

After being released from hospital, I rang my family doctor and said that I am still having heinous tachycardia. He said that I had to go to "Geðdeild" or the local outpatient psychiatric facility, which I did. I said that I was having chest pains and tachycardia and that I could not handle the Seroxat I had been on before (made the conditions worse) and my joints ache. The doctors at Geðdeild put me on Effexor.

The Effexor made my heart beat about 120 and my blood pressure around 140/95. The dosage I was on stopped being imported into Iceland and the pharmacy gave me a higher dosage. I turned down the higher dosage from the pharmacy and back to "Geðdeild" and said get me something else. After talking to one doctor, the head of the facilty came to see me and she asked why on earth I had been given an "anti-depressant" when I had no symptoms of depression. She told me to stop taking the Effexor immediately.

Eventually I was given heart medication that lowers my pulse.

I did not have an homicidal or suicidal thoughts on these drugs, they just made my condition worse. They took my low blood pressure and turned it into high blood pressure. Thankfully my blood pressure is back to its previous state.

The joint pain while taking these drugs never went away. I was very thin prior to taking these drugs and I never lost all the weight I gained from Effexor. I was think before during and after the pregnancy, after the Effexor my body set point became much higher.

In Iceland there are posters everywhere from the government's medical association showing a woman holding a child that says "I love my child" - "The nation fighting depression" - go see your doctor. Doctors in Iceland are paid for 2 weeks of "Lyfnamskeið" or "pharmaceutical classes" which are then paid for by the drug companies. Doctors are paid a salary to go on medical cruises and go to conferences in tropical climates.

Any woman who has been diagnosed or mis-diagnosed with post-natal or post-partum depression and has been prescribed anti-depressants will never ever be taken seriously. That is the danger in this fight. Female doctors are getting benefits from the drug companies and any previous patient is discounted.

The Mothers Act is a way of labeling women, saying we are unfit for higher office, do no belong in the boardrooms and are of a completely different species than men. This is the anti-ERA act. I cannot believe that such a thing would be considered in the US.

Jennie Jonasson

[Guest guest]

FYI

From a woman in Canada, who picked up TIME out of interest in reading the Palin article.Hi Amy,

Please feel free to forward the e-mail -etc.

I believe that if I had stayed on these drugs that I would not be here typing this e-mail to you.

I sincerely believe that if I stayed on them that they would have killed me. The fact that I have been on these drugs of course takes away my credibility and ergo the Catch-22 of the situation.

Thank you for having the courage to fight this fight.

Jennie

2009/7/21 Amy Philo <amyphilo@...>

Do you mind if I forward this?

Sincerely,

Amy Philo

214-705-0169 home817-793-8028 cell

Join the Coalition! Sign the Petition! Stop The MOTHERS Act!

uniteforlife.org

From: Jennie Jonasson amyphilo@...

Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:11:03 PMSubject: My Icelandic experience

Dear Ms. Philo,

Thank you for speaking to me.

My name is Jennie Jonasson. I lived in Iceland from 1998-2007. I live in Canada now with my husband Loftur and my 4 year old daugther Emma in Hampstead, QC.

Tachycardia (when one's heart beats too fast) runs in both sides of my family. I suffered from this from 2002. In 2004 my husband and I unexpectedly became pregnant when I was 38. No one told me that pregnancy makes your heart beat faster.

Shortly before I became pregnant I had been put on Seroxat (Paxil, I think is the American name) instead of a heart medication. I was told that the pregnancy would be "good for you". I was miserable during the pregnancy with my heart racing and was told it would stop after I gave birth.

In hospital after birth, my blood pressure was below 90/60 and my pulse was 105 and often higher.

In hospital they send a medical student studying psychiatry to the bedside of every woman who has given birth. Because I had been put on Seroxat before I could not get help for my high pulse and low blood pressure. I was told I had the "Baby Blues".

After being released from hospital, I rang my family doctor and said that I am still having heinous tachycardia. He said that I had to go to "Geðdeild" or the local outpatient psychiatric facility, which I did. I said that I was having chest pains and tachycardia and that I could not handle the Seroxat I had been on before (made the conditions worse) and my joints ache. The doctors at Geðdeild put me on Effexor.

The Effexor made my heart beat about 120 and my blood pressure around 140/95. The dosage I was on stopped being imported into Iceland and the pharmacy gave me a higher dosage. I turned down the higher dosage from the pharmacy and back to "Geðdeild" and said get me something else. After talking to one doctor, the head of the facilty came to see me and she asked why on earth I had been given an "anti-depressant" when I had no symptoms of depression. She told me to stop taking the Effexor immediately.

Eventually I was given heart medication that lowers my pulse.

I did not have an homicidal or suicidal thoughts on these drugs, they just made my condition worse. They took my low blood pressure and turned it into high blood pressure. Thankfully my blood pressure is back to its previous state.

The joint pain while taking these drugs never went away. I was very thin prior to taking these drugs and I never lost all the weight I gained from Effexor. I was think before during and after the pregnancy, after the Effexor my body set point became much higher.

In Iceland there are posters everywhere from the government's medical association showing a woman holding a child that says "I love my child" - "The nation fighting depression" - go see your doctor. Doctors in Iceland are paid for 2 weeks of "Lyfnamskeið" or "pharmaceutical classes" which are then paid for by the drug companies. Doctors are paid a salary to go on medical cruises and go to conferences in tropical climates.

Any woman who has been diagnosed or mis-diagnosed with post-natal or post-partum depression and has been prescribed anti-depressants will never ever be taken seriously. That is the danger in this fight. Female doctors are getting benefits from the drug companies and any previous patient is discounted.

The Mothers Act is a way of labeling women, saying we are unfit for higher office, do no belong in the boardrooms and are of a completely different species than men. This is the anti-ERA act. I cannot believe that such a thing would be considered in the US.

Jennie Jonasson

[Guest guest]

FYI

From a woman in Canada, who picked up TIME out of interest in reading the Palin article.Hi Amy,

Please feel free to forward the e-mail -etc.

I believe that if I had stayed on these drugs that I would not be here typing this e-mail to you.

I sincerely believe that if I stayed on them that they would have killed me. The fact that I have been on these drugs of course takes away my credibility and ergo the Catch-22 of the situation.

Thank you for having the courage to fight this fight.

Jennie

2009/7/21 Amy Philo <amyphilo@...>

Do you mind if I forward this?

Sincerely,

Amy Philo

214-705-0169 home817-793-8028 cell

Join the Coalition! Sign the Petition! Stop The MOTHERS Act!

uniteforlife.org

From: Jennie Jonasson amyphilo@...

Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:11:03 PMSubject: My Icelandic experience

Dear Ms. Philo,

Thank you for speaking to me.

My name is Jennie Jonasson. I lived in Iceland from 1998-2007. I live in Canada now with my husband Loftur and my 4 year old daugther Emma in Hampstead, QC.

Tachycardia (when one's heart beats too fast) runs in both sides of my family. I suffered from this from 2002. In 2004 my husband and I unexpectedly became pregnant when I was 38. No one told me that pregnancy makes your heart beat faster.

Shortly before I became pregnant I had been put on Seroxat (Paxil, I think is the American name) instead of a heart medication. I was told that the pregnancy would be "good for you". I was miserable during the pregnancy with my heart racing and was told it would stop after I gave birth.

In hospital after birth, my blood pressure was below 90/60 and my pulse was 105 and often higher.

In hospital they send a medical student studying psychiatry to the bedside of every woman who has given birth. Because I had been put on Seroxat before I could not get help for my high pulse and low blood pressure. I was told I had the "Baby Blues".

After being released from hospital, I rang my family doctor and said that I am still having heinous tachycardia. He said that I had to go to "Geðdeild" or the local outpatient psychiatric facility, which I did. I said that I was having chest pains and tachycardia and that I could not handle the Seroxat I had been on before (made the conditions worse) and my joints ache. The doctors at Geðdeild put me on Effexor.

The Effexor made my heart beat about 120 and my blood pressure around 140/95. The dosage I was on stopped being imported into Iceland and the pharmacy gave me a higher dosage. I turned down the higher dosage from the pharmacy and back to "Geðdeild" and said get me something else. After talking to one doctor, the head of the facilty came to see me and she asked why on earth I had been given an "anti-depressant" when I had no symptoms of depression. She told me to stop taking the Effexor immediately.

Eventually I was given heart medication that lowers my pulse.

I did not have an homicidal or suicidal thoughts on these drugs, they just made my condition worse. They took my low blood pressure and turned it into high blood pressure. Thankfully my blood pressure is back to its previous state.

The joint pain while taking these drugs never went away. I was very thin prior to taking these drugs and I never lost all the weight I gained from Effexor. I was think before during and after the pregnancy, after the Effexor my body set point became much higher.

In Iceland there are posters everywhere from the government's medical association showing a woman holding a child that says "I love my child" - "The nation fighting depression" - go see your doctor. Doctors in Iceland are paid for 2 weeks of "Lyfnamskeið" or "pharmaceutical classes" which are then paid for by the drug companies. Doctors are paid a salary to go on medical cruises and go to conferences in tropical climates.

Any woman who has been diagnosed or mis-diagnosed with post-natal or post-partum depression and has been prescribed anti-depressants will never ever be taken seriously. That is the danger in this fight. Female doctors are getting benefits from the drug companies and any previous patient is discounted.

The Mothers Act is a way of labeling women, saying we are unfit for higher office, do no belong in the boardrooms and are of a completely different species than men. This is the anti-ERA act. I cannot believe that such a thing would be considered in the US.

Jennie Jonasson

[Guest guest]

FYI

From a woman in Canada, who picked up TIME out of interest in reading the Palin article.Hi Amy,

Please feel free to forward the e-mail -etc.

I believe that if I had stayed on these drugs that I would not be here typing this e-mail to you.

I sincerely believe that if I stayed on them that they would have killed me. The fact that I have been on these drugs of course takes away my credibility and ergo the Catch-22 of the situation.

Thank you for having the courage to fight this fight.

Jennie

2009/7/21 Amy Philo <amyphilo@...>

Do you mind if I forward this?

Sincerely,

Amy Philo

214-705-0169 home817-793-8028 cell

Join the Coalition! Sign the Petition! Stop The MOTHERS Act!

uniteforlife.org

From: Jennie Jonasson amyphilo@...

Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:11:03 PMSubject: My Icelandic experience

Dear Ms. Philo,

Thank you for speaking to me.

My name is Jennie Jonasson. I lived in Iceland from 1998-2007. I live in Canada now with my husband Loftur and my 4 year old daugther Emma in Hampstead, QC.

Tachycardia (when one's heart beats too fast) runs in both sides of my family. I suffered from this from 2002. In 2004 my husband and I unexpectedly became pregnant when I was 38. No one told me that pregnancy makes your heart beat faster.

Shortly before I became pregnant I had been put on Seroxat (Paxil, I think is the American name) instead of a heart medication. I was told that the pregnancy would be "good for you". I was miserable during the pregnancy with my heart racing and was told it would stop after I gave birth.

In hospital after birth, my blood pressure was below 90/60 and my pulse was 105 and often higher.

In hospital they send a medical student studying psychiatry to the bedside of every woman who has given birth. Because I had been put on Seroxat before I could not get help for my high pulse and low blood pressure. I was told I had the "Baby Blues".

After being released from hospital, I rang my family doctor and said that I am still having heinous tachycardia. He said that I had to go to "Geðdeild" or the local outpatient psychiatric facility, which I did. I said that I was having chest pains and tachycardia and that I could not handle the Seroxat I had been on before (made the conditions worse) and my joints ache. The doctors at Geðdeild put me on Effexor.

The Effexor made my heart beat about 120 and my blood pressure around 140/95. The dosage I was on stopped being imported into Iceland and the pharmacy gave me a higher dosage. I turned down the higher dosage from the pharmacy and back to "Geðdeild" and said get me something else. After talking to one doctor, the head of the facilty came to see me and she asked why on earth I had been given an "anti-depressant" when I had no symptoms of depression. She told me to stop taking the Effexor immediately.

Eventually I was given heart medication that lowers my pulse.

I did not have an homicidal or suicidal thoughts on these drugs, they just made my condition worse. They took my low blood pressure and turned it into high blood pressure. Thankfully my blood pressure is back to its previous state.

The joint pain while taking these drugs never went away. I was very thin prior to taking these drugs and I never lost all the weight I gained from Effexor. I was think before during and after the pregnancy, after the Effexor my body set point became much higher.

In Iceland there are posters everywhere from the government's medical association showing a woman holding a child that says "I love my child" - "The nation fighting depression" - go see your doctor. Doctors in Iceland are paid for 2 weeks of "Lyfnamskeið" or "pharmaceutical classes" which are then paid for by the drug companies. Doctors are paid a salary to go on medical cruises and go to conferences in tropical climates.

Any woman who has been diagnosed or mis-diagnosed with post-natal or post-partum depression and has been prescribed anti-depressants will never ever be taken seriously. That is the danger in this fight. Female doctors are getting benefits from the drug companies and any previous patient is discounted.

The Mothers Act is a way of labeling women, saying we are unfit for higher office, do no belong in the boardrooms and are of a completely different species than men. This is the anti-ERA act. I cannot believe that such a thing would be considered in the US.

Jennie Jonasson