Posted by Bill LL on June 1, 2004, at 9:08:58
In reply to What is wrong with the pdocs?, posted by Ann Marie T. on May 28, 2004, at 8:11:55
I think that the docs themselves are not very familiar with withdrawal side effects for a couple of reasons.
It's not in the drug company literature. The drug companies know about the problem but don't want to advertise it. They don't feel compelled to advertise it because withdrawal effects do not occur during the clinical trials since they are of such short duration.
Pdocs might only have a few patients on any given drug. When a patient withdraws, he might lose contact with the patient. Oftentimes, a patient will stop seeing the pdoc, and start having the primary doc do the prescribing.
I have heard that taking Prozac during withdrawal from Effexor will work very well. I'm guessing that Prozac may also help with withdrawal from Lexapro, Zoloft or other SSRI's.
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