Posted on 04/17/2007 11:30:45 PM PDT by neverdem
That's not necessarily so. In that case, it would be those folks who metabolize Prozac, aka fluoxetine, more quickly, as opposed to the slow metabolizers, who would seem to be the ones most likely to suffer serotonin withdrawal syndrome. Of all the SSRIs, Prozac has the longest half life. Published fluoxetine withdrawal reports are scarce, possibly due to the long half-life of fluoxetine and the active metabolite norfluoxetine.
Fluoxetine is the SSRI of choice to wean a patient off of SSRI treatment with a gradual tapering of the dose. It's the only SSRI that's formulated as a liquid so it permits a prolonged tapering. A tapering regimen is not provided in manufacturers' package inserts. The optimum tapering regimen for each agent has yet to be determined by comparative clinical trials. From a review of the case reports, we suggest the tapering schedules presented in Table 2..
IIRC, serotonin withdrawal syndrome is also known as serotonin discontinuation syndrome and SSRI discontinuation syndrome. These drugs aren't necessarily bad, but docs need to become much more aware of their pharmacology. There was a recent story in the NY Times that said 85 % of docs didn't know about serotonin syndrome. I wonder how many are aware of the serotonin withdrawal syndrome.
Thanks for the link! ;)
If this killer had suddenly stopped taking his Prozac, his thoughts would be worse than when he was on them.
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I guesss I should have said could instead of would.
Thanks for the info.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it would be much better for anyone to use marijuana than to take such garbage. The desired result would be met, and pot don’t make you crazy the way these “anti-depressants” do. What is concerning to me is how quickly doctors will just throw such drugs at people. You could show up at the doctors office while so little as having a bad day and you would likely walk out with a prescription for Prozac. I got put on Zoloft once, and it really messes with your head. It seemed to help a little for about a month, but after three months I began to have some pretty self destructive thoughts that quickly stopped after discontinuing use of the drug. Those medicines can be very bad news!
I can't believe you'd make a blanket generalization like that. You've obviously never worked with kids who need them; I do. I have never been on prescription meds, and I think these are over-prescribed. But to say "children do not need anti-depressants" is, frankly, very silly.
Children do not need dangerous psychoactive medication. I’m not saying every kid can be a jolly carefree kid. But there are many, many other methods that will help children. Turning them into drug taking patients for life is so not the answer. Of course, society is in the handbasket, heading quickly south. So the things that will really help them probably aren’t going to happen.
I was in many ways a sad, anxious and lonely child. What I needed was not in the PDR. If I had been drugged as a child I can’t imagine how my life would have turned out. Much worse, nou doubt. The inner pain I experienced spurred me to look deeper into the purpose of life. Which I am eternally grateful for.
The topic is worthy of much in depth discussion which unfortuantely I don’t have time for. Mental and emotional pain can be ameliorated in many ways. Taking drugs doesn’t cure anything, it’s just mental novocain.
I’ve read that kids as young as TWO YEARS OLD are being drugged. The parents just don’t want to deal with them. Children need a home with a mother and father. Single parent “families” are churning out dysfucntional children. The solution is not to drug them. One important part of the solution is to KILL AFDC, and to resurrect the standard of marriage before children. Women SHOULD be ashamed of having a child out of wedlock. Men SHOULD be ashamed of fathering illegitimate children.
That would be a good start. Drugging kids is like giving someone with a broken foot aspirin. Sure, that might help dull the pain, but there’s a REASON for the pain. The broken foot needs to be fixed.
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