“Thank you for having your site so that people can have the information to do something about this overmedication going on.”
Just about everyone in my family has been on or is still on an antidepressant. My twin sister and I went on Prozac at the same time and I quit taking shortly after she quit. The side effects were not worth the increase in overall happiness. I have found exercise is my miracle. My twin and my little sister have been on Paxil for sometime to control panic attacks, and no matter what they are told, that one can control panic attacks without drugs, they won’t quit taking Paxil. My little sister has this unpleasant trembling as a side effect, I don’t even like looking at her, she can’t stop shaking.
My mother has been wanting to get off the Prozac but can’t, she was once at 90mg, her doctor said it was fine to be on that dosage. She was so forgetful she would go to the store and leave the keys in the ignition. She has since lowered the dosage but has been unable to quit. The only ones in my family, myself and my older sister, who has OCD and several other problems, have successfully not been medicated and are living happily. We both exercise almost everyday, her more so than me (she has OCD, remember!)
My mother agrees she doesn’t like the prospect of being dependent on a pill for the rest of her life, but says she can’t face life without Prozac. I went to the official website for the drug and it is just about impossible to find any information about the long term effects of the drug. I am so worried about my mother, her doctor doesn’t care, she’s now on other drugs to control her blood pressure and who knows what else she’s hiding from me. Thank you for having your site so that people can have the information to do something about this overmedication going on. I will give the information to my mother and my sisters so they can see what their doctors do not tell them.
Lynn Prikkel
lstevenson@ajc.com
1/23/2001
This is Survivor Story number 3.
Total number of stories in current database is 34
