Posted by PinkFizzy on July 7, 2005, at 22:26:26
(I'm in Canada, so some of the pharms might have different names.
I've been depressed since I was about 8. I didn't try anti-depressants until two
years ago, but I wish I hadn't. First I was on Wellbutrin, which made me psychotic
(and I had never had any symptoms of it before), then on Prozac for about a year,
which also made me psychotic. I drank a bottle of wine and took the rest of a bottle
of Prozac, and I was hospitalized. They added the anti-psychotic Risperdal, which
made me lactate (ARGH!!!) and was therefore eventually changed to Seroquel, as well
as the mood stabilizer Lamotrigine.
I was okay for a while, then I started to get seriously depressed again, became
suicidal and was hospitalized again. Without asking me or informing me of its side-
effects and agonizing withdrawal, they put me on Effexor. Now I am sick of
psychiatric sugar pills and damn patent medicines. We are being used as guinea pigs.
I am going off all the damn drugs and sticking to a medicine that has thousands of
years of use without a single recorded death. You know the one.
I am never trusting a doctor again! I have had so many bad experiences with them. I have probably been to or received treatment from 20 doctors in the past few years, and maybe one or two I respected.
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