Posted by J. Wesley on December 28, 2002, at 7:47:33
In reply to Re: No TD from benzos » syringachalet, posted by J. Wesley on December 28, 2002, at 7:40:01
> > As a four year college graduate from a professional nurseing program with 20 years of experience providing direct patient care and then later supervising that same care, I have experienced first hand what these powwerful medications can do.
> > Most of the clients had been on their psycoactive medications long term greater than 10 years.
> > Over time when newer,less toxic meds evolved, the psych docs attempted to taper these patients doses down and switch to newer drugs with less negative side effects.
> > As I am uncertain of your medical credentials,
> > perhaps you would refer to the U.S. Food and Drug websites for a multitude of website resources for you to read and quote from....
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> > I was simply trying to share some of the hands-on working knowledge I have used daily for over 20 years with others whom it might appreciate it...
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> > LB,RN,BSN,ABS
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> Well...doing a simple U.S. Food and Drug website search on MSN turned up 44477 websites. Uggg... I don't have time to check out all these sites. However, I ran across a site a while back that might be of some help. http://www.dystonia- support.org/index.htm
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> I found this site to be easy to understand and full of information that I wasn't aware of. Certainly no medical professional has discussed any of these dystonic distinctions with me.
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> I would really appreciate it if someone could point me to research showing a direct correlation between TD and the benzodiazepines.
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> As far as the newer classes of drugs being safer, such as the ssri's, the atypical AP's, etc., the long term side effects of these drugs have yet to be proven, due to the very fact that they are so new. However, there are anecdotal reports all over the web that these two classes of drugs aren't as safe as initially thought with respect to dystonia type problems.
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> The use of these newer drugs are still a crapshoot concerning long term use and side effects. One can't honestly state that newer is safer (or less toxic), because long term studies aren't possible with new drugs. That statement is a marketing ploy to gain market share propogated by big pharmicia. I don't understand why so many in the medical profession overlook this (well, yes I do, but I don't want to get into ethics, even though it is now intricately involved in medicine). At least with most of the older drugs we have good research showing what we are dealing with.
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> J. Wesley
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