Posted by Willful on April 25, 2012, at 3:13:08
In reply to Lou's reply-juzwuddaewmeen » Willful, posted by Lou Pilder on April 24, 2012, at 20:07:46
Based on the reports on the ehealthme website, to which you referred me:
of the over 38,000 people who, over the entire time that effexor has been used, have REPORTED A SIDE EFFECT only about 190 have reported any sort of tardive dyskinesia.It goes without saying that not all people who take a drug experience side effects; and not all people who experience side effects report these side effects.
I would conclude therefore, that the percentage of people who have actually taken effexor and have experienced tardive dyskinesia is far far below the percentage cites on this website, which is 190/38000+ (or 0.49%).
If the number is , as if would logical have to be, greatly less that 0.49% and significantly lower than 190/38,000., I think we have an insignifiant, if not infinitesmal percentage of people who experience this side effec.t.
The numbes for paxil are even more favorable --.24% or 141/58,000.
Again, I remind you this is out of a small subset of those who take paxil-- the subset of those who not only had a side-effect, but whose side effect was bothersome enough or who were savvy enough to report a side effect to a health practitioner.
A side note is that it is not clear how reliable these numbers are, since the vetting of numbers on this website seems to be lax-- or very hard to locate. It seems to be based entirely on health care professionals who are PAID for reporting a side effect.
I just don't find the website entirely credible. Moreover, the numbers themselves suggest that TD is not meaningfully associated with paxil or effexor.
I hope you find this extremely reassuring.
Emsam.
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