[Dianna]

Or, more logically, there are issues that come up when the drug starts lifting the depression. Depression dampens the energy needed to do a lot of things. Certainly suicide is something taking initiaitive.

I've argued your position. My 10 year old son was prescribed paxil for extreme anxiety. We worked with a therapist for more than 2 years before trying the medication. One week after a dosage increase he was manic and trying to kill himself at school.

Luckily all we suffered was incredible fear and upset as the child was hospitalized for two weeks. He suffered major humiliation as this happened at school.

I want the truth. I want to know if the drug companies knew their meds could produce mania in patients who are not bi-polar, and if they have lied about it.

I was willing to take a risk. As far as I understood it, the risk was 1%.

[Nov3]

I rad what you said on the other thread. I am sorry your son had to go through this. Is he in the same school? How are the other kids treating him.

I can only imagine what he has been going through. Young kids are not politically correct.

Someone very close to me went through something very similar with prosac. Before it was all over they had her prosac stacked with tegretol and were going to start lithium. Luckily she walked away from this and is more stable than me now.

[technochick99]

I am so very sorry for you and our son. Paxil and Prozac are similar and belong to the same class of meds, but there must be a significant difference in the brain chemistry. I don't suffer from anxiety, and my doctor was surprised that paxil helped whereas prozac didn't. But our brains can process things differently.

Is your son one of the 1%? Most likely...

[GovernmentShrinker]

Researchers are currently working on commercially viable tests for the genetic peculiarities that cause a tiny percentage of people to react badly to certain drugs that help most users. Unfortunately those tests are not yet available, and doctors have little choice but to try the drug and hope for the best. This should be changing within a few years, as it becomes routine to test patients for inability to metabolize a drug before prescribing it.