Guest guest Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Hi Hope all as going well for you. I have a devastating situation in my family because of Zoloft. My daughter, le, was administered Zoloft June, 2002, after having been on Prozac and then Paxil since she was 16 years old for approximately four years. She was born in 1982. SSRI's were originally administered to her for OCD. She was somewhat normal on the first two SSRI's, but after Zoloft, all hell broke loose. After one or two pills of Zoloft, le was in her bed and at around midnight she began flailing her arms and legs, making guttural sounds, sweating, swearing, and screaming that she wanted to kill her father. It was all very scary for me and my oldest daughter. We stayed at le's side until this behavior subsided, after about two hours. I called her psychiatrist and left a message with the phone by le's mouth so the shrink could hear her guttural and incoherent sounds. Fortunately the shrink did not get the message until the next day, or le would have been immediately hospitalized and further drugged. Instead the next day, the shrink sent a prescription for Clonazepam to be administered along with the Zoloft. le immediately turned into a zombie-like person in a deep, deep depression . My daughter and I spent the next two weeks taking turns being by her side, never leaving her alone. Eventually she came out of this stupor. We thought that she had returned to normal except that she began having severe mood swings and sudden outbursts of screaming that she had "needles all over her body." The mood swings included her being happy with her dad's attention, and the next minute calling him evil and telling him to leave her alone and never call her again. She began having conversations with my mother who had died several months before and insisting that my mother had sent her a piece of gum through the phone. September 9, 2002, after two months on Zoloft, le accused a close friend of sexual abuse. This friend was arrested and charged with a serious crime and is awaiting trial in a couple of months. I really want to help him because he is totally innocent of all accusations by my daughter. December 3, 2002, le accused her father of sexual abuse. The police, without any evidence, don't believe the allegations against le's father (only the allegations against the friend) and have accused me of making le say her father abused her to clear this friend, which is totally untrue. In the end of December, I discovered by accident that le had kidney disease. With her kidneys functioning at approximately 20%, how efficiently was the Zoloft being metabolized out of her system? (At this time she is in total renal failure and is on dialysis. I also recently learned, as a result of her being screened for a kidney donor recipient, le has Hepatitis C which may have affected her liver during the metabolizing of Zoloft. I insisted that le be taken off of SSRI's and told the shrink how to do it - very gradually - it took almost a year!) Because of the nature of this case and the lies facilitated by le's father, I am not allowed to see her during this most difficult and trying time - starting dialysis, etc. I would also like to mention that le is 22 years old, totally blind and developmentally delayed, functioning at approximately 9 or 10 year of age. I think of her as a "ten-year-old" with 22 years of experience. Do you have any experience with false accusations while on an SSRI drug or evidence that supports this that may be used in a trial? I am absolutely positive, without a doubt, that the cause of le's bizarre behavior including false accusations, is due entirely to the Zoloft administered to her with out a kidney or liver test. I have been in contact with Dr. Ann Blake-, and hopefully she will be available to testify for us. Any other information you may have, , that could help in a criminal trial will be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much. le's mother > >Reply-To: Withdrawal_and_Recovery >To: "C Creel" >Subject: Zoloft patent extension part of debate over antidepressants for children >Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 17:29:59 -0400 > >Zoloft patent extension part of debate over antidepressants for children > >Pfizer's success in getting Zoloft's patent extended resulted in part to >turning two failed pediatric clinical trials into a positive study that is >part of the current debate over suicidal risks connected to antidepressant >use by children. A pair of pediatric trials conducted as a condition of the >extension concluded Zoloft was no more efficacious than a placebo, but the >trial results were never published or released to the public. A subsequent >journal article based on the unpublished studies said Zoloft was effective >for children, and now Pfizer is one of several makers that could face legal >action. The Wall Street Journal >http://rdr.sbml.cc/Click?q=59-y52oIEn5hMykg3YlpQ8ZlKwjddRR (subscription >required) (8/6) > On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 After one or two pills of Zoloft, le was in her bed and at around midnight she began flailing her arms and legs, making guttural sounds, sweating, swearing, and screaming that she wanted to kill her father. Your story is so tragic. But I guess I have to ask the obvious question of why wasn't she taken off Zoloft immediately after this incident????? Because what you describe sounds like serotonin syndrome. As for false memories, this seems to be a common occurrence with SSRIs. Dr. writes extensively about it in Prozac: Panacea or Pandora, so she's a good source of information for the courts. Good luck to all of you. "Blind Reason" a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Latest Press Release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 Dear Glitter Thank you for your prompt response. I have e-mailed Dr. and I have her book - it's great - wish I had had it about two years ago. At the time of this situation, June 28, 2002, I did not know about this group or about the dangers of SSRI's and was given the "standard answer" by the psychiatrist, "It's a relapse and she needs more drugs." That is why she was given clonazepam. Also, le was being changed from paxil to zoloft. The shrink had her stop taking the paxil cold turkey for a few days before starting with the zoloft. I have since learned that this may have been what caused the serious problem. I feel I was suckered in by the shrink like so many other people. I feel that these strong drugs probably added stress to her under-sized kidneys and may have hastened their failure. le turned 22 years old on July 19, and on July 20, she was taken to the hospital in total renal failure for emergency dialysis. This has been an unending nightmare. le's Mom >From: glitterari@... >Reply-To: Withdrawal_and_Recovery >To: Withdrawal_and_Recovery >Subject: Re: Zoloft - poison >Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:44:20 EDT > > > > > > After one or two pills of Zoloft, le was in her bed and at around > > midnight she began flailing her arms and legs, making guttural sounds, > > sweating, swearing, and screaming that she wanted to kill her father. > >Your story is so tragic. But I guess I have to ask the obvious question of >why wasn't she taken off Zoloft immediately after this incident????? Because >what you describe sounds like serotonin syndrome. As for false memories, >this seems to be a common occurrence with SSRIs. Dr. writes extensively >about it in Prozac: Panacea or Pandora, so she's a good source of information >for the courts. Good luck to all of you. > >"Blind Reason" >a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue >Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's >Unsafe At Any Dose >Latest Press Release > > > > > > > > > > Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 feel I was suckered in by the shrink like so many other people. I feel that these strong drugs probably added stress to her under-sized kidneys and may have hastened their failure. le turned 22 years old on July 19, and on July 20, she was taken to the hospital in total renal failure for emergency dialysis. Dear le's mom: I am so sorry that your family has been subjected to such an awful situation all because of incompetent and ignorant doctors and greedy pharmaceutical companies. We were all snookered by these jerks otherwise we would never have taken any of these poisonous drugs. I hope you find the strength to carry on and care for your poor daughter. Are you getting some support in this effort??? It must be terribly stressful for your whole family. "Blind Reason" a novel of pharmaceutical intrigue Think your antidepressant is safe? Think again. It's Unsafe At Any Dose Latest Press Release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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