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By admin on August 13, 2010
seroquel and klonopin Eva After my thyroid medication was switched to a compounded medication, I started having anxiety and depression/panic attacks. I was first put on 5 HTP. This made my heart race and started giving me very bad anxiety. Later, I was given Lexapro, Buspar, Trazadone. I started to develop what I think is [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged 5 Htp, anti-depressant, Anxiety And Depression, Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety Depression, Bipolar, Buspar, Heart Race, Hyperactivity, Imsomnia, Klonopin, lexapro, Panic Attacks, Psychiatrist, Seizure, Sensations, seroquel, Thyroid, Thyroid Medication, Trazadone |
By admin on January 12, 2010
Luvox (SSRI) amy Bond Was prescribed Luvox to treat my OCD prior to during and after birth of my 2nd child Having OCD i I was obsessed that this drug may harm the baby. I was reassured that it is a safe drug Our son was born with double outlet right ventricle, craniosynostosis and otosclerosis. [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged 3 Years, Animals, Chromosomes, Class C, Craniosynostosis, Double Outlet Right Ventricle, FDA, Fish, Genetic Testing, Good Luck, Heart Surgeries, luvox, Morbidity, Ocd, Open Heart, Outlet Right Ventricle, Pregnant Woman, Pregnant Women, Skull, SSRI |
By admin on November 11, 2009
I went to a Psychiatrist in 1990 because I couldn’t control crying jags at work. I had been sad over a horrible accident that left my 19-year-old son permanently brain injured.
The lady psychiatrist saw me for less than five minutes, announced I was clinically depressed and prescribed Prozac. When I asked, she said it was not habit forming.
I remember feeling almost immediate relief after the first dose (surprising, since she said it would take 3 weeks to take effect). All of the sudden life became wonderful! I sang to myself all day long. I was the life of every party (or so I thought). I began drinking too much and running around like I was on speed. I just had so much fun at everything I did. The world was at my feet and I was setting it on fire! Wow…why didn’t I find these drugs sooner?
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Antidepressant Drugs, Brain, Crimes, Describing People, Five Minutes, Habit, Horrible Accident, Jags, Life Decisions, Local Government, Medications, Minor Stroke, Occurrences, Paxil, Prozac, Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatrist, Seizure, survivor, Zoloft |
By admin on September 17, 2009
Zoloft & Welbutrin Wanda I was on Zoloft and then Welbutrin for several months when someone said how their students were emotionally flat due to drugs. I realized that was my problem! I did not feel even the slightest twinge of emotion, even when watching movies or in therapy, healing from childhood abuse. I also [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Amp, Childhood Abuse, drugs, Emotion, Heart, Libido, Psychiatrist, Twinge, Wanda, Welbutrin, Zoloft |
By retoddb on August 29, 2009
Every month when I went to my doctor, my medication and dosage were changed. There was a point during the ten years that I realized the medication was making me sick, especially when I got lithium toxicity. My body was holding on to all fluid, I was bloated beyond recognition, my pupils were dilated (one more than the other), I started to get panicky and I had constant nausea and severe headaches along with other symptoms which alarmed my husband, and he called my doctor, who told me to stop taking the medication immediately.
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Anti-depressants, Depressive Disorder, Eleven Years, First Few Days, Hallucinations, Hangover, Hearing Voices, Initial Diagnosis, Liver Failure, Major Depressive Disorder, Mood Disorder, Paxil, Post Partum Depression, Serzone, Shudders, Temporary Relief, Third Child, Trazodone, Whoosh, Young Living Essential Oils |
By retoddb on August 29, 2009
Back home, my family searched for answers. Our good friends, Brian and Barb Kuckuck, went to a Young Living convention in California and returned with help — an audio tape and a book by Dr. Ann Blake Tracy.
The tape opened our eyes to the destruction that these drugs can cause in people’s lives. Today, I know that I have a disposition towards depression, but I am not bipolar. I am not psychotic and I do not have a borderline personality disorder. My mental and physical disorders were caused primarily by the medication I was given by my doctors. I lost ten years of my life.
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Alternative Health, Audiences, Borderline Diabetes, Breaking The Mold, Chemicals, Depression, Diabetes, Diabetes Glucophage, Eleven Years, Glucophage, Health Magazine, Health Professionals, Health Transformation, lithium, Medications, Merrill Osmond, Moods, New Direction, Norm, Post Partum Depression, Six Months, Stack, Third Child, Young Living Essential Oils, Young Living Oils |
By retoddb on August 29, 2009
Hi, my name is Lori White. I live in Sandy, Utah, and am a mother of 5 children, and grandmother of 7. After being married for 12 years, I became a single mom for the next 9 years, during which time I had 4 teenagers at the same time. Depression runs in my family, and [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged 6 Years, 8 Years, Cloud Of Gloom, Depression, Divorce, Grandmother, Lori White, Medication, Perspective, Prozac, Sad Life, Sandy Utah, Single Mom, Teenagers, Wonderful Man |
By retoddb on August 29, 2009
My name is Jenny McKinney. I am 26 and a stay-at-home mother of three boys, ages 5, 4, and 1 year. I was diagnosed with clinical depression in August of 1995. I was suicidal and depressed when I was prescribed the anti-depressant, Paxil. My mood swings were already out of control, but worsened after taking [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged anti-depressant, Bathtub, Boys Ages, Clinical Depression, Cold Turkey, Depression And Anxiety, Depression Anxiety, Having Children, Home Mother, Least Three Weeks, Licorice, Meds, Mood Swings, Mother In Law, Paxil, Psychiatrist, St John S Wort, Stay At Home, Sweet One, Time In My Life |
By retoddb on August 29, 2009
My name is Nathan Gibb. I was diagnosed hypo-manic over ten years ago which, as I understand it, is a tamer version of manic-depressive. I had been taking a medication called Wellbutrin to manage the low end of the mood swings where I spent most of the time. Within the last couple of years I [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Depression Symptoms, Health Insurance, Hypo Manic, Insurance, Lows, Manic Depressive, Medication, Mood Swings, Quality Of Life, Reliv Products, Six Weeks, Stress, wellbutrin |
By admin on August 27, 2009
Mrs Seroquel Alexandra I have had large weight gain, 18 kilos in less than 6 months. I was taking a max. dose of 300mg at night. I am now slowly reducing the medication to stop further weight gain. At the present I am taking 100mg at night and it has helped to stop further weight [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Alexandra, Max Dose, Medication, seroquel, Weight Gain |
By SisterRip1981 on August 15, 2009
I HAVE BEEN THROUGH HELL BECAUSE OF THE DAMAGE THIS DRUG DID TO MY
SISTER..AND TO MY FAMILY.
AND I KNOW THERE ARE OTHER FAMILIES OUT THERE STILL IN THE DARK!!
I HOPE TO FIND THEM AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THEIR
LOVED ONE IF OUR STORIES ARE SIMILAR..AND THIS RX DRUG WAS INVOLVED!
Posted in Pre-SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Adrenal Exhaustion, adverse, alcohol, Amp, anti-depressant, Antidepressant, bi-polar, Buick, Day At A Time, Decades, Depression, discontinuation, disorder, Divorce, File For Divorce, Freak Out, Handgun, Holstered Guns, Imipramine, inhibitors, Lori, Lorraine, Manic State, Meds, mood, Nap, One Day At A Time, Postmaster, pre s.s.r.i., Raquo, reaction, s.s.r.i., serafem, serotonin, Sertraline, Side Effects, Sister Lisa, Sleep, Smart Woman, SSRI, Sudden Death, Suspicious Suicide, syndrome, Tofranil, TOFRINAL, Truth About, Weird Behavior |
By dadams on August 15, 2009
I used to have a pretty normal life. I made a six figure income. My wife (18 years of marriage) didn’t have to work. We had a nice house and the swimming pool I had wanted since I was a child. Now, all that’s gone. All because of a stupid little pill and all the people that don’t know what the hell their doing with all these powerful drugs.
During the 13 years I was on SSRI Antidepressants, I saw several different psychiatrists and doctors. They experimented on me with many different drugs: Effexor, Celexa, Abilify, Alprazolam, Clonazepam (Klonopin), Depakote, Lunesta, Trazodone, Xanax, Zyprexa and of course Zoloft (Sertraline).
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Adrenal Exhaustion, adverse, alcohol, Amino Acid Therapy, anti-depressant, Antidepressant, bi-polar, Couple Of Days, Depression, discontinuation, disorder, Freak Out, Free Samples, Holstered Guns, inhibitors, July 13th, luvox, Manic State, Meds, Memory Impairment, mood, Nap, Neurological Damage, Nutritionist, Pfizer, Psychiatric Hospital, reaction, Rear View Mirror, s.s.r.i., serafem, serotonin, Sertraline, Side Effects, SSRI, Symptoms Of Fatigue, syndrome, Weird Behavior, Zoloft |
By admin on August 11, 2009
In 2004, I gave birth to my son, Isaac, on Thursday, July 8. I had significant stresses in my life for several years and especially in the months prior to the birth, but throughout it all I remained happy and healthy and calm and patient. One major stress was moving from Georgia to Minnesota when I was about 8 months pregnant. I loved Georgia but dreaded Minnesota, and was being forced to move for my husband Joel’s new job.
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Act Org, Adrenaline, announcements, antidepressants, Arthur H. Bearon, babies, Barack Obama, Blocker, Case Reports, Central America, Chaada, Contraction, Death, Diapers, disorders, Dr. David Guth, Eli Lilly, Epidural, Epidurals, federal, Fetal Heart Rate, Formula Samples, Government, grassroots, Hospital, Hypoglycemia, infant, International, Iv Fluids, John Clement, Karen, Katherine Stone, Kleiman, Labor And Delivery, Losing Weight, M Central, M.D., Melanie, Mental Disturbances, Mercy, moms, mood, mortality, Motherhood, MOTHERS Act, New Job, newborns, nonprofit, outreach, Oxygen Therapy, perinatal, Petition, Philo, Pitocin, Postpartum, PPD drugs, pregnancy, Progress, psychiatry, public, Quot, Respiratory Issues, Robert Menendez, screening, Selmo, service, Son Isaac, Stokes, Support, Susan, UNITE, uniteforlife, Vacuum Extraction, Welcome Back, Yahoo, Zoloft |
By retoddb on August 11, 2009
My son, Manie, was born with a rare heart defect because I took Paxil during my first three months of pregnancy. Manie had to have a hole ripped into his heart shortly after birth to save his life. At eight days old he had a 12hr. open heart surgery. Manie is 5 yrs old now. [...]
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Acid Reflux, Antidepressant, Arteries, Cardiac Cath, Edgington, Eight Days, First Three Months, First Three Months Of Pregnancy, Heart Defect, High Blood Pressure, Leaky Valve, Leg Cramps, Manie, Months Of Pregnancy, Multiple Times, Open Heart Surgery, Paxil, Paxil And Birth Defects, Severe Stomach Cramps, SSRI |
By atracyphd on August 10, 2009
Eleven years ago, I experienced some serious depression which I now
recognize was most likely postpartum depression, since it began following the
birth of my third child. The condition was serious enough to cause me to be
unable to function normally. After a visit to the doctor, I came home with a
prescription for Prozac, and this was the beginning of a ten-year nightmare.
Within the first few days, I began having hallucinations and hearing
voices, but had no relief from the depression. At my next appointment, the
doctor prescribed Paxil and Trazodone. Temporarily, it seemed to help with the
depression, but I was a zombie all of the time. I felt like I had a hangover
every morning.
Posted in SSRI Case Reports | Tagged Anti-depressants, Depressive Disorder, Dr Ann, Eleven Years, First Few Days, Hallucinations, Hangover, Hearing Voices, Initial Diagnosis, Liver Failure, Major Depressive Disorder, Mood Disorder, Postpartum Depression, Serzone, Shudders, Temporary Relief, Third Child, Trazodone, Whoosh, Young Living Essential Oils |
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