Posted by Jost on September 29, 2006, at 9:06:35
In reply to Re: I signed the BAN EFFEXOR petition, posted by notfred on September 29, 2006, at 8:06:57
Many signers of the petition were in the midst of withdrawal. That's not the time to make ultimate judgments of one's overall experience of a drug, since it's the moment when it's at its worst,
Having to go off an AD is an really demoralizing experience, even if the taper works and you have to face anxieties about reentering the bad old ways.
If you don't taper, or don't get good advice, or aren't appropriately treated for discontinuation symptoms, that's going to make it much worse.
Another concern is that once having made that statement, the idea becomes more strongly labeled in the minds of sufferers, as well as readers.
Does this emphasis represent the most realistic sense of how good/bad the drug is, and what it's cost/benefit ratio is?
Not all signers were in that position, but a significant number of them.
Also the number of signers as of yesterday, was approximately 11,000.
A lot of people but not hundreds of thousands.
Jost
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