Posted by jules354 on March 31, 2006, at 7:13:43
In reply to Re: remeron withdrawal, posted by musky on March 31, 2006, at 0:55:36
i just had to weigh in here. i understand what both of you are saying, musky and Scott.
Remeron saved my life. I love Remeron. I wrote poems about Remeron.
I want to be off Remeron now because I want to have a baby and because I'm scared about the long-term effects of being on such a powerful drug. If the suicidality comes back, I'll go back on it. That's the deal I made. But I'm working hard to be off it, and it also scares me how hard it is to go off it.
It's clear we need better solutions to mental illness (including free therapy and meds and bodywork). And I think we all need to be critical and aggressive about getting better info about side effects, addiction and withdrawal. It's been stunning to me to learn how many of us share the same w/d symptoms yet how many of our doctors are blithe about this.
But then again, this is a health-care industry that prescribes meds that give people heart attacks and waits until people die to pull them off the market.
take good care,
jules
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