Posted by Lou Pilder on January 22, 2012, at 20:09:24
In reply to Re: Feeling very down despite Fluoxetine 20 mg 3 wks, posted by Gerri on January 22, 2012, at 19:18:32
> > Gerri please feel free to write me anytime. Babblemail me. Phillipa
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> Thanks Phillipa. I will probably take you up on that.
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> Re increasing my dose. I am finding that if I take more than 20 mg I get a number of large hard red hives which eventually break out into small sores. I think I have vasculitis and that is why I went off fluoextine a couple of years ago as it is a known unusual reaction. I had a similar reaction to low dose Zoloft. I am so desperate to get a lift in serotonin that I am prepared to put up with a small number of hive but I am worried about the big ones which turn into sores
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> GerriGerri,
You wrote,[...a number of large hard red hives..went off (prozac)...reaction to..zoloft...I am worried abnout the big ones that turn into sores..].
If you are willing to read this, it could save your life and also prevent you from experiancing a horrible death.
What you have described here is a possible reaction from prozac. The drug can cause a type of allergic response that shows up as a rash at first, and then progreses to where all the mucous membranes are inflamed including the eyes as the skin is like being burned alive over your entire body. When it evolves into this state, it is called Stevens Johnson Syndrome. There are other forms with different names. The chemical make up of prozac is one of the drugs that can induce SJS. There are others, like Lamactil, and over-the-counter pain drugs such as Motrin and Advil and such. I read that you are willing to put up with a small number of hives. SJS can be over the whole body including the eyes that could lead to blindness and death.
There are people here that could tell you to take this or that drug. But is the potential of death from SJS worth it?
I can not tell you here due to prohibitions made to me by Mr. Hsiung as to how you could get "a lift" without the risk of death from drugs by suicide or the drug inducing cariac arrest or other causes of death from these drugs.
The lift that I am prohibited from posting here could give you a new heart and a new mind and take you to a kingdom of a marvelous light. But my posting would need for me to post the foundation of Judaism as revealed to me , which Mr. Hsiung has posted to me a prohibition to do so.
I have no kick against modern drugs, as long as they don't cause a deadly rash. But is not taking these drugs like playing roulette?
Lou
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