Posted by Ritch on January 21, 2005, at 12:05:11
In reply to Re: Citations needed - please!, posted by Cairo on January 21, 2005, at 11:18:34
> My husband, who is a physician, talked to him this morning again and asked if we could try switching her to another SSRI. The pdoc said we need to have neuropsych testing done first and said we should be thinking about schizophrenia. I think we've been labelled difficult parents (parents who think too much), but in my heart of hearts I know it's the Lexapro. He told us to up the Provigil dose, but won't consider the Lexapro causing the problem.
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> The whole schizophrenia thing started when we took her to see a specialist at U of PA who diagnosed her with ADD, dysthymia, social phobia, anxiety and only said we should just keep an eye out for schizophrenia as there is a family history of it, but she didn't think it looked like it to her. This doc talked to our local doc and I think the schizophrenia is stuck in his mind.
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> As we haven't yet found a decent pediatric pdoc, we're stuck with this one for the time being. I hope to convince him with the literature that memory issues CAN be caused by Lexapro and then maybe he'll consider a trial of another SSRI. She has only tried Celexa before but it made her way too tired and didn't do much for the social phobia. Lexapro does help some with SP, but it's not enough.
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> I'm tired of having to convince docs that some symptoms are real or can be attributed to meds. You don't know how many times I personally have been prescribed SSRIs for Fibromyalgia when I keep telling them that I cannot take SSRIs because they CAUSE muscle aches and other serotonin syndrome symptoms in me even at low doses. It's like everyone has to fit into their textbook description and can't react any differently.
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> If you have seen any studies that specifically mention memory issues with SSRIs, I would greatly appreciate the citation. Thank you.
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> CairoHi, I was just checking into Minnie-Haha's post above and I think it has exactly what you are looking for:
http://www.mhsource.com/depconsult/
http://www.mhsource.com/depconsult/dec2004.jhtml?_requestid=500828Scroll down a tad and you will see the article.
Hope this helps!
poster:Ritch
thread:444810
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