Posted by detroitpistons on March 12, 2010, at 21:31:20
In reply to Re: My letter to the FDA » detroitpistons, posted by Bob on March 12, 2010, at 21:11:10
Bob, you are absolutely right. Even though people acknowledge the withdrawal now, it's as if they do it begrudgingly! It's as if they still don't really care. How is this possible? How do they not get it? How many more thousands of stories do they need? This infuriates me!
But that's why I really like this Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee that's part of the FDA. Did you read that presentation? It's awesome! They don't pull any punches, and get this...They actually care about anecdotal information! They actually believe people's stories! Wow, what a novel idea. Maybe the patients aren't all "crazy" after all. Whoever wrote that report really "gets it." Now we just need to make sure that everybody else gets it....The problem is that these people are scientists, not politicians.
This is all such friggin BS. It would be so simple to make these kits or to at least make a couple more dose sizes. If I could get any traction on this, I would be prepared to fight like a pitbull. This is a crime.
By the way, I think Pristiq is such a crock. It's is the quintessential "patent extender."
> Pristiq is set to become an even worse offender in terms of withdrawal than Effexor in my opinion. The lowest available dose is 50mg, and that is in a sustained release form that is not supposed to be broken. How is one expected to get off that after long term therapy? It has basically been designed to be impossible to taper off of.
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> Despite all the problems people are having getting off some of these drugs, I think that the medical community is STILL quite indifferent about it. I was just at a major university associated psych center last week and had a staff psychiatrist tell me that some people can have a mild withdrawal when coming off venlaflaxine. My heart sank as I realized that even at this point in time, few people outside of those who suffer through it know what these meds can do to a person trying to get off of them.
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