Posted by tygereyes on May 7, 2006, at 19:54:28
In reply to Re: Link to Government Info on ENSAM Please » Phillipa, posted by blueberry on May 7, 2006, at 19:06:47
I have counted two people who have exhibited this reaction, aside from myself, who I don't count because I know that my anxiety and depression are from Parnate withdrawal and because I haven't yet exhibited a response.
And all of the people who have had supposedly negative responses to ENSAM were withdrawn off of antidepressants first.
You know that Philipa is extremely frightened of taking medication. Perhaps you should stop trying to scare her away from taking medication that might help her and leave it up to her and her doctor.
After all, if her meds aren't working properly now, it seems worth a try. My friend, as I said, had a HORRIBLE psychotic reaction on 0.5 mg Xanax. Hearing voices, seeing shadows ... had to be admitted to the ER. Apparently hallucinations do happen on benzos ... should no one ever take a benzo again because SHE had a bad reaction?
Or what about the people who have insomnia and behavioral dyscontrol on Ambien? Should it be taken off the market?
Please don't allow your experience with this drug to bias you. My drug addiction began because of Adderall - and yet I recognize that this can be a very useful drug, despite my addiction to it - an addiction that, once begun, ended in IV heroin addiction. And yet I am not hysterically screaming that anyone on Adderall is going to become a heroin addict. Because that was MY experience.
Until the research proves otherwise, case reports will not faze me.
> Phillipa, I see some of the things that have shown up pbabble are listed as low incident side effects, such as anxiety, agitation, paranoid reaction, emotional lability. I bet in the real world they aren't such low incidents. I didn't see increased depression listed, but I bet that will end up being just as frequent as other meds.
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> The best reports I've ever heard for selegiline were for the liquid form.
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> I'm so sick of the increase-the-neurotransmitter approach anyway. I think I'm ready to think about the increase-neurotransmitter-function approach, as in ADD meds, or in your case, as in benzos.
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