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To: wastoute
Being a Freeper and being on threads about SSRI's a long time ago is what put it in my head about SSRI's that and prayer. Joe Montana AL.B and Rubbertramp changed my insights after my wife went into Serotonin Syndrome. Don't get me wrong SSRI's help many persons everyday and I certainly realize that. But not enough caution is being used to rule out possibilities of ones like me and my wife. My wife did not sleep for over 5 days and was hallucinating. The attending ER doctor didn't PDR her Meds. There is no mental illness I know of that makes a patient go unconscious and completely unresponsive. She did that in the ER. The attending refused treatment as he wanted to transfer her to a mental institute. I took her to another ER and she was still unconscious. They got her back conscious and when I told them what happened they too started the transfer song and dance. They called Mobile Crisis. The hospital was forced to admit her.

She went three days without SSRI's and late the third night came rational again. The next morning a Shrink who didn't know her from Adam came in and increased the Zoloft. Within one hour of taking the pill she was gone again and they still weren't picking up on it. I went to the hospital Chapel to pray then went home. I was tired but got on the computer and typed in Trazadone +Zoloft + Adverse reactions. My first hit was the answer. A paper Serotonin Syndrome written by that UNIVERSITY hospitals Pharmacology Professor.

I rushed back to the hospital and asked to see the Floor Supervisor. I showed her the paper and said I want her doctor {an in-house doctor not our regular one} notified right now as this condition is dangerous and life threatening. She said he'll be here tomorrow. I said OK but you will not give her any further medications but Ativan. No Zoloft and no other meds. The doc made rounds and was highly angry at me. I showed him the report. He said that's junk science rubbish. I said then read the name of who wrote it and his position. He backed off.

By later the next night she was rational again only this time partially Amnesic. The weird part was in her talking it was like her life was on replay. Every thing she said I could pin point to an event in her life but one. She kept saying she had to reveal herself. When she finally could talk I asked her what that meant and she laughed and said Oh No. I thought I was Tess on "Touched by an Angel" her favorite show.

Three attending ER doctors, Two in house doctors, and two shrinks prescribing it to her missed it. The sad part was she was taking the SSRI's for PTSD over the Dentist and some minor depression any quad would have. That Dentist later killed a girl in his office using IV's to put a kid under with he was not qualified to do. He was just a general dentist.

16 posted on 05/22/2009 1:22:41 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgement? Which one say ye?)
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To: cva66snipe
Serotonin Syndrome is one reason I hesitate to prescribe multiple drugs like that. You add Wellbutrin and an SSRI and an tricyclic you are making quite a "witches brew". Fortunately I have never had a patient with serotonin syndrome. I was a neurosurgey resdent in the '80s and we worried about "malignant hyperthermia" from general anesthesia at that time which later turned out to be sort of a "malignant acute" serotonin syndrome. One really needs to be careful with these things.

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17 posted on 05/22/2009 1:39:13 PM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" and the Scout Motto)
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