Posted by dancingstar on November 22, 2004, at 16:53:15
In reply to Effexor Withdrawal and Pregnancy, posted by Marie B on May 31, 2001, at 12:33:19
My heart goes out to all of you that are doing this while pregnant. I don't know what I would do. Maybe it's better that the drug is out of your system, rather than in it to protect your unborn child from carrying the drug with them into the world, but I don't know for sure. I wish the doctors knew more about this. There are so many women in this position and so little is known about it.
I guess that I can't help but be angry at Wyeth for allowing this drug to be prescribed without enough testing to know that this can happen or to know that this can happen and allow it to be prescribed anyway. Maybe you don't agree with my position, but I truly feel like the desire for profits in the last decade encouraged many companies to jump the gun on these drugs, knowing that they could backfire in the longrun but hoping to get the money in the shortrun and sell their stock before the proverbial -- well, pizza hit the ceiling ;-).
I want to organize a group of people to protect our interests. Will anyone that cares about your life or the lives of your children and has concerns about the misrepresentations made about Effexor or possibly any other ad please send me a babblemail or click on my name so that I can send you my email address so that you can find me if you feel that you want to pursue this at some point. Even if it is not for us personally, it is my feeling that the public should have the right to know what we all know. And the children should not have to suffer for what we have done to our own bodies.
I am doing this now while I am still in pain and still angry and still in the bathroom most of the day because I feel as though this is as good a time as any.
As always, I pray for you guys that have it worse than I do.
Bebe
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