Posted by Hiba on August 16, 2002, at 23:36:23
In reply to Re: about withdrawal 'syndromes' (a parenthesis), posted by alan on August 15, 2002, at 11:08:52
Dear Alan,
I was supposed to respond to squiggles, but you did the job. Squiggles sticks with Merck Manual and Pharmaceutical basis of therapeutics. But my advise is take a look at the American psychiatric Association's task force report on benzodiazepines. It has been done after intensive research, and definitely the most reliable source of information. The seizure which squiggles mention is a RARE withdrawal syndrom. Rare means occuring to less than 1 in 1000. I am not speaking of myself. The task force report says it.
Most physicians (in general practice, not psychiatrists) agree antidepressants are safe, and benzos are addictive. But see the incidence of seizures in the holy book of Merck and other therapeutic guides. They say "Antidepressants also rarely induce seizures" That is 1-4 in every thousand patients.
I am an unlucky person of antidepressant experiment. My doc believed ADs are safer than Benzos and he arbitrarily tapered me from clonazepam which was helping me tremendously and put me on fluoxetine. And now my drug is my problem. I lost my sexual self and even my doc doesn't know the way out of it. He gave me periactin, buspirone, gingko biloba but nothing restored my sexual self. I wish I could go back to clonazepam and once again stabilized on it, which was the best medicine I ever took. But getting off fluoxetine also seems a big problem because I tried twice and failed.
DEAR DOCS AND BENZOPHOBICS, PLEASE DON'T MISGUIDE THOSE WHO ARE DOING WELL ON BENZOS. DON'T EVER..PLEASE
HIBA
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