Posted by Mireille on July 25, 2002, at 12:34:31
In reply to Re: Going off Effexor, thanks in part to you all!, posted by oracle on July 25, 2002, at 12:04:18
> > Not true? Then why does this site exist?
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> This site exists for those who do not do well on meds, so it is not a fair sample.I know, but since I started reading the questions on the site, many of them are the same - what are the normal side effects, should I be feeling this...it doesn't seem like we're getting good enough answers from the medical community - or maybe you're right and this isn't a fair sample - maybe we are not super well informed about what we're talking about? I admit I could be better informed - it's just tough to find the time being in grad school and having a full-time job. I trust my doctors to do the research before they give me something - it's their job!
> Are we all just badly educated? Tell me why, when I asked three different doctors if I could be on Effexor while pregnant, they each said: "Not enough tests have been performed, so we just don't know."
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> Because we cannot test AD's on pregnant women or kids.Ok, I knew that...of course it would be unethical...but then, are pregnant women/children just going to forever be this unknown zone? Wow, I guess that's a bigger ethical question...I mean, how did they ever get Ridlin on the market? Or anything they give kids, say, for ADHD?
You are right about them not being able to test pregnant women, or else Thalydamide (sp?) would never have made it onto the market and made all of those babies be born deformed in the late 60s/early 70s. See - what makes me angry in all of this is that we don't know exactly what we are putting into our bodies - instead of trying to actually help a patient, more often than not doctors just give them meds. My friend couldn't sleep well and her doc handed her samples of both Effexor and Ambien. She read the side effects and decided to try herbal teas and other things without effects.
That's what irks me - should I have even taken Effexor to begin with? I had situational depression - but now it seems every time I try and go off I am almost "addicted" to the drug...and have to go back on. I don't know, maybe I am just that depressed in reality, it's just hard to believe it since I never was before I took the drugs. I just think they might alter your brain chemistry in some way. Let's hope not.
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