Posted by Dale on June 24, 2001, at 11:18:27
Hello all,
I posted a message above and received a couple of responses, but I am hoping to get more info from people on this great list. Please see earlier message above for my story (Zoloft to Paxil - tics).
Recently I got myself all scared by doing a bit of research. I found the book Prozac Backlash , by Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. (Harvard Medical School),
and started reading it. Wow - it sounded like me. He talked about people being on SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil) and how the medicine masks tics until you start going off of them, which I was doing. He also said that the neurological disorders such as facial and whole-body tics can indicate brain damage! He also talked about tardive dyskinesia (tics), and parkinson-like movements. This really scared me and just finding this out while going off zoloft and onto paxil
makes me wonder if I should forget the paxil and just continue to go off the zoloft.A respone to my earlier message from Sulpicia above was interesting and made me feel better - she thought that the author's agenda was anti-pschiatry, and that there TD is only from the older psychiatric drugs. But, because we do not know the long-term effects of the anti-depressants, can we be sure that people are not developing TD or other serious illnesses that cause brain damage? The book I mention above is not the only one I cam across - there were several others by different doctors taht had some similar findings.
Just though I would throw this out to the list and see what happens.
Thanks, and hope to hear from you all soon.
Dale
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