Posted by naughtypuppy on November 19, 2006, at 13:55:03
In reply to Re: Dopamine - Do you care about those Agonists ? » naughtypuppy, posted by yxibow on November 18, 2006, at 3:46:22
> > > > > Any of you ever saw concretely a link between social phobia dopamine dysfunction AND any med having an effect on dopamine (antagonist, agonist, reuptake inhibitor etc etc) ?
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> > > > Well, I have SP and CANNOT tolerate anything having a dopamine antagonist effect (I tried Haloperidol and it was the most frightening, horrific experience of my life).
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> > > Haloperidol with an anxiety disorder would be in my mind the most horrific experience after the sedation wore off, the akathisia, which is not anxiety but a side effect consisting of skin crawling need to move, would be interpreted as anxiety. Something much lower on the totem pole like Zyprexa would not have nearly this effect.
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> > > -- Jay
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> > My excuse for a pdoc used to give me Haloperidol until I was crawling up the walls. When I kept telling him about it , he just said "I'm the expert, so do what you're told". What a cruel thing to do to a 14 year old kid. Small wonder I had nothing to do with the mental health system for the next 30 years, and will be telling my pdoc (the broken record)where to go the next and final appointment!
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> Haldol for a 14 year old with an anxiety disorder ??
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> No, I repeat that, Haldol for a 14 year old?? Maybe a 14 year old with an unfortunate very early onset huge case of a schizophreniform disorder and then only very cautiously (because of the theory that catching schizophrenia early may help possible deleterious brain changes -- yes, this is a debatable subject)...
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> I'm sorry you had this experience.Actually, I'm not exagerating at all I showed no schizophrenic tendencys whatsoever. Today I probably would have been diagnosed ADHD or just a kid that wouldn't sit still. In the early 70's it was very trendy to use anti-psycotics for just about everything, just like atypicals are trendy today which is why I shudder when I hear people mention using them for depression. I think I still have a very subtile form of TD and that was after only a year of treatment. Look at the way we are today. ECT is back in style. Psycosurgery is rearing it's ugly head again. The AD's of today are generally no more effective than the ones developed 50 years ago. And so the circle goes round and round. Next I expect to be picked up, put in an asylum and fed fish heads!
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> Unfortunately 30 years ago, Clozaril was the only atypical in the labs and was just being introduced in Europe only to be withdrawn soon after because of deaths from low white blood cell count. It wasn't until nearly 1990 that it was reintroduced in the US and elsewhere with strict guidelines to monitor and subsequently discontinue the approximately 1-2% of people that would develop this condition (initially, it drops in treatment).
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