Posted by secretme on May 26, 2006, at 19:08:24
In reply to Re: Cymbalta withdrawal - Publicity, posted by SLS on May 26, 2006, at 18:38:40
I don't get it: how many SSRIs are necessary in the marketplace? From what I have learned about the medications I have taken in the past 12 years, most of them do the same thing (whatever that is). None of them worked for me, so basically, they were all the same: ineffective. Cymbalta is a different story. IT IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
If you had any idea of what the pharmaceutical lobby in this country does to legislation, our healthcare system, Medicare benefits and the ability to put medications on the market that are not safe, you would not agree that all these formulations are necessary. After all, who is paying for this stuff? We (and our loathesome insurance companies) are forking over billions for these medications which, in many cases, did not do anything more than a placebo. These stastics are available in the Journal of American Medicine and other scholarly publications. My psychiatrist did not deny this statistic, but he also did not say why, then, depression alone required a medication that was only 10% more effective than a water pill.
As I take medicine for cancer, high BP and cholesterol, I am grateful for those that have helped me. That doesn't mean we should give the industry a blank check to kill us!
secretme
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