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Re: I just need to vent

Posted by bleauberry on November 20, 2007, at 17:18:30

In reply to I just need to vent, posted by monkeysmama on November 19, 2007, at 21:11:10

It's hard to know whether it is the risperdal, zoloft, or the combo, that is causing you to feel so bad. Antidepressants do backfire. You never know in advance which one(s) will do that to you.

Since the theory of chemical imbalance is so widely accepted, well, if your serotonin is ok but something else is out of balance, and then you increase the serotonin a lot, guess what, now the original chemical imbalance is even way worse than it was to begin with.

Risperdal can cause or worsen depression too. It would be nice to start one med at a time to know for sure which is doing which.

I think it is dangerous for a pdoc to urge a patient to stick with it even though the patient says they feel a lot worse. What if the person actually does commit suicide? Or on a milder note, what if they lose their job, their career, or their marriage because of it? Not to say those things are mild though. Pretty serious stuff. And what if some seriously pissed off family members decided to sue the psychiatrist for ignoring the warnings? In this day and age of medical lawsuits, sky high malpractice insurance, and people looking to get rich quick, I'm surprised pdocs even take a gamble.

At the very least, it shows the pdoc has no compassion and no talent. It means he/she is expecting the patient to be one of the 60% or so in a clinical study that improved, but ignoring the fact that it might be one of the 40% who didn't, or one the smaller percentage that got worse.

I mean, it's nice to be optimistic. But come on, get real. If a person is feeling much worse, get the heck off that drug. Either wean off of it as fast as tolerable, or switch directly to another med.

Zoloft made me feel real bad. I couldn't even make the jump from 12.5mg to 25mg without feeling severely under the weather that I couldn't even function. I just wanted to die. I weaned off in just a few days and I tell you I felt so much better as the dose came down, and even better 2 days after the final dose. Unfortunately after that nice bounce, the original depression/anxiety does come back but at least you are at square one to start over and the horrible suicidal feelings are on the shelf.


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