tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post2166222925354498458..comments2023-09-28T15:35:46.255+01:00Comments on <center>FIDDAMAN BLOG</center>: More Correspondence with Doug Bremner MDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-6733011820506284642008-10-16T23:21:00.000+01:002008-10-16T23:21:00.000+01:00Thank you for your informations Mr. Bremner.I'll s...Thank you for your informations Mr. Bremner.<BR/><BR/>I'll stop here.<BR/>It seems to me that I'll have to write the same over and over again and will never have an answer.<BR/>Fiddy,<BR/>I believe it's not only you who have evasive answers.<BR/>Thank you for the opportunity.Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889189418315180865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-19652217122413740512008-10-16T14:31:00.000+01:002008-10-16T14:31:00.000+01:00Ana and Susan,Ana: I thought I answered your quest...Ana and Susan,<BR/><BR/>Ana: I thought I answered your question but maybe the link I posted got cut off so let me tell you that I have written for several years about the increased risk for suicidality with antidepressants, it is in my book, or you can click on my name and on my website follow the links to antidepressants. There I also discuss the side effect of sexual dysfunction and my opinion that it is more common than the manufacturers have admitted (there is a belated recognition by the manufacturer and as I said before this is the rule rather than the norm). Yes I am aware of one open label trial in which paroxetine was associated with a decrease in fertility in men, which I might point out is not synonymous with sexual function in the sense of libido. However, to my knowledge it isn't known if this effect persists after discontinuation. What else? That it can cause prolonged sexual dysfunction after discontinuation? In my experience sexual function improves after discontinuation, although as I have said before I am always interested in hearing about new problems that people have with medications. Do you have that problem? And yes I know who the person is in your picture; I do not prescribe antidepressants to teenagers because there is no evidence that they work for teenagers, and I practice evidence based medicine, i.e. I don't do things because a drug rep tells me to do it, I go and read the literature and make an informed decision. It is unfortunate that many (most) doctors do not do so, and the fact that antidepressants were so commonly used in teenagers was (is) unfortunate, as is the withholding of negative data on paroxetine in teen agers. I am not responsible for the withholding of that data or the prescription practices of my colleagues.<BR/><BR/>Susan, I couldn't agree with you more that people need to take responsibility for their own health and educate themselves about their prescription medications. At the risk of trolls calling me a shill for my own book (I am sorry but I don't know how else to say this) that is why I wrote a book called 'Before you take that pill, why the drug industry may be bad for your health.' I wrote that book EXACTLY because of my experience that pharma and the medical industry cover up the side effects of ALL medications (coming out of my experience as an expert on Accutane and depression).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-79129217039529383572008-10-16T12:43:00.000+01:002008-10-16T12:43:00.000+01:00Dear Dr. Bremner, I just want to say for the recor...Dear Dr. Bremner, <BR/><BR/>I just want to say for the record, I had no problems with Paxil, which is unusual because in the 23 years that I have been on psych drugs, this one hardly caused any side effects. I cannot say that for Zoloft, which I was on for a year, or Prozac, which I had to be forcibly taken off after about a month when i felt my whole body being zapped by some type of electricity and my skin was turning inside out. <BR/><BR/>What upsets me about medical doctors, is they refuse to look at side effects unless something serious happens. I was taken off Lamictal when I got the rash. But all the other drugs I have been on, at last count 38 in 23 years, when I would complain of toxic side effects i was told "it's all in my head", or to quit cold turkey. <BR/><BR/>Which, I did, because I didn't know better, having grown up with a father who worked for Big Pharma and actually helped develop something which you might be familiar with . <BR/><BR/>In fact....this past year, I almost died, (actually flatlined) from Haldol, spending almost a month in the hospital, and a rehab facility from the side effects.<BR/><BR/>I do speak at different ventures and openly discuss my struggles with different drugs and <BR/>ECT. What I tell consumers is not to treat their mental health so cavalierly, but to make informed decisions. Question everything you put into your body, whether it's something like Tylenol, or something the doc gives you. <BR/><BR/>While I find your devotion to your colleague admirable, I want you to know it's not all roses with so many drugs, psychiatric or not . I don't know what the FDA and other agencies need to do to get these drugs off the market, and for doctors to realize that for every success story the drug reps share, there are hundeds, if not thousands of people that have been inconvienced, hurt, maimed or destroyed by these same drugs. <BR/><BR/>I use to be a vibrant, intelligent woman, with the whole world open to me. Until I burnt out at 23 while working on my doctorate. My life ended. It's been doctor after doctor, med after med, anything to get that girl back. When I complain to a pdoc about how something makes me feel, the doc tells me it's all in my head, or buck up....<BR/><BR/>Right now I am on Cymbalta, and I have tried to wean myself off, with disastrous results. I am so sick right now from this drug and so scared of my Existential thoughts I am seriously considering going to the hospital to be safe. Not that it will accomplish anything,but it might buy me a week or two of being safe, and maybe the mood will lift. <BR/><BR/>Because I still have hope, that maybe, maybe, i can get off everything. I will always be bipolar. But maybe the quality of my life will improve, so I can get off SSI and have a life again.<BR/><BR/>Thank you in advance for reading my comment. <BR/><BR/>And thank you Fiddy for letting me have my say. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Sincerely,<BR/><BR/>Susansusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14474227548195593445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-41025163684551861632008-10-16T09:51:00.000+01:002008-10-16T09:51:00.000+01:00Mr. Bremner,I don't think you know this:The girl i...Mr. Bremner,<BR/>I don't think you know this:<BR/>The girl in this photo is not me. It's Tracy Johnson a healthy 19 years old girl who hanged herself during Cymbalta clinical trials in Elli Lilly facilities.<BR/>Four other volunteers have committed suicide during Cymbalta trials.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure serotonin system is involved in both sex and mood.<BR/>However the way SSRIs are acting on the serotonin system, by putting all these amount of serotonin on the synaptic gap, seems to promote much more harm than good.Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889189418315180865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-63680281021958306432008-10-16T08:54:00.000+01:002008-10-16T08:54:00.000+01:00PS: I didn't say anything about my experience.I wa...PS: I didn't say anything about my experience.<BR/>I was misdiagnosed. I never had depression.Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889189418315180865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-42889087958493601362008-10-16T08:52:00.000+01:002008-10-16T08:52:00.000+01:00Dear Mr. Bremner,It seems to me you're really not ...Dear Mr. Bremner,<BR/>It seems to me you're really not aware of many facts that are being reported.<BR/><BR/>From Wikipedia:<BR/><I>Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction. It may represent a specific subtype of SSRI discontinuation syndrome.</I><BR/>One or more of the following sexual symptoms persist or begin after the discontinuation of SSRIs.<BR/><BR/> * Decreased or absent libido<BR/> * Impotence or reduced vaginal lubrication<BR/> * Difficulty initiating or maintaining an erection or becoming aroused<BR/> * Persistent sexual arousal syndrome despite absence of desire<BR/> * Muted, delayed or absent orgasm (anorgasmia)<BR/> * Reduced or no experience of pleasure during orgasm (ejaculatory anhedonia)<BR/> * Premature ejaculation<BR/> * Weakened penile, vaginal or clitoral sensitivity<BR/> * Genital anesthesia<BR/> * Loss or decreased response to sexual stimuli<BR/> * Reduced semen volume<BR/> * Priapism<BR/> * Damaged DNA within Sperm causing infertility[2].<BR/>"Fluoxetine (Prozac), the prototypical SSRI, is classified as a reproductive toxin[19] by the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR), an expert panel at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health."<BR/><BR/>I'm referring to Wikipedia because they don't write on speculations and are not very keen to write on side effects.<BR/>Since they consider PSSD but deleted the PANES concept it sounds<BR/>But you can find many testimonies here:<BR/>http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SSRIsex/?v=1&t=directory&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=dir&slk=4<BR/>This group was founded in 2005 and many people claim they don't even have fantasies or men don't get aroused seeing a naked woman.<BR/>You didn't answer the most important of it all that is altering not only physically but mentally. <BR/>SSRIs can alter the mind if you consider PSSD, suicidal ideation and violent behavior.<BR/><I>"In recent years SSRIs have been used to reduce sex offenders' deviant sexual thoughts and fantasies."</I><BR/>I'm quoting again.<BR/>If even CERHR is already concern I don't think that SSRi's sexual problems are not known and cannot any longer be ignored.<BR/><BR/>Suicidal ideation is not only when people cold turkey.<BR/>Even the UK Parliament in the 2005 review "The Influence of Pharmaceutical Industry" have already reported it.<BR/><BR/>During withdrawal period even people who taper slowly it happens.<BR/><BR/>I'm appalled you know so little about it all with all the data available.<BR/><BR/>I'm also amazed that the most important questions I've asked were not answered.Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889189418315180865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-35632757856787878012008-10-16T00:55:00.000+01:002008-10-16T00:55:00.000+01:00AnaI am sorry you had a bad experience with paroxe...Ana<BR/><BR/>I am sorry you had a bad experience with paroxetine. As I wrote in my book and on my web site, paroxetine, and all of the SSRIs, are often associated with sexual dysfunction. I have long felt that up to a third of patients have sexual dysfunction with paroxetine, the manufacturer claimed that is was less than 5%. That is why it is the treatment of choice for premature ejaculation. The serotonin system is involved in both sex and mood, surprise surp[rise. <BR/><BR/>As for delay in admission of sexual dysfunction with paroxetine, as I have said before, belated admission of side effects and adverse events from manufacturers of medications is the rule, not the norm. I have stated my opinion previously that antidepressants can increase suicidal thoughts previously here:<BR/>http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/topics/depression.html<BR/>and it is regretable that the psychiatric profession and manufacturers of SSRIs were resistant to agreeing to the same conclusion. <BR/><BR/>I have not heard of permanent loss of sexual function from paroxetine even years after the drug is stopped, but as I have said before I am always willing to listen to new side effects I have not heard about previously. It is also possible that depression may cause loss of libido.<BR/><BR/>As I have written before, paroxetine has not been shown to be useful for teens, and it is regrettable that the data was withheld, but that was not my personal decision.<BR/><BR/>Epilepsy is associated with hippocampal dysfunction as is PTSD<BR/>http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/articles/behavior/ptsd_4/<BR/>studies show that changes in the environment can promote nerve growth in the hippocampus, as can treatments of depression.<BR/><BR/>I do not treat individuals with 40 mg of paroxetine as there is no evidence it is better than 20, and I work with individuals on their taper (I am not implying everyone has to come off in one month, or two or three). If they have symptoms we slow down the taper. I have not had problems-- maybe it has to do with the doctor you worked with?<BR/><BR/>I have seen patients become suicidal-- it was in a case where a patient lost her paroxetine and essentially went cold turkey. <BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing your experience. As always I say that patients need to take charge of their treatment and take responsibility for teaching themselves about their care and the medications you are on, and you all are doing that here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-76194374148761586862008-10-15T20:53:00.000+01:002008-10-15T20:53:00.000+01:00Can you explain the hypothesis of abnormalities i...Can you explain the hypothesis of abnormalities in hippocampus in schizophrenic people? And what about the role hippocampus has on epileptic seizures?<BR/><BR/>I've been reading about London's taxi-drivers (Maguire, (2000) having a larger hippocampus due to the study they have to do on shortcuts of many different places to pass "The Knowledge". http://www.pnas.org/content/97/8/4398.full<BR/>I would rather increase my hippocampus this way.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>If I understood correctly your aim with SSRIs for PTSD is researching the brain. <I>don't treat teens, only adults with PTSD involved in research studies of the brain.</I><BR/>So these people are being used as guinea-pigs?<BR/>One month to withdraw 10 and two months for 40 mg Paxil? 10 mg every two weeks?<BR/>Fiddy's experience of tapering is the same of many of us. <BR/><BR/>I'm sorry, but I had to write again. You cannot imagine Mr. Bremner, the harm you're doing.<BR/>I don't think you have a clue because if you did I don't know what to think about you.Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889189418315180865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-43002250035986617932008-10-15T19:03:00.000+01:002008-10-15T19:03:00.000+01:00I keep asking myself why on earth do I take a drug...I keep asking myself why on earth do I take a drug that is used to treat people with paraphilia?<BR/>It's all becoming stranger and stranger.<BR/>And quite scary.Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889189418315180865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-47725814633827901042008-10-15T19:02:00.000+01:002008-10-15T19:02:00.000+01:00I've just read on Bremner post about increasing h...I've just read on Bremner post about increasing hippocampal volume.<BR/>I'm quite scared since I'm on SSRI even after 2 years of tapering off but I had to go back due to hideous withdrawal symptoms.<BR/>I'll have to take it for the rest of my life.<BR/>I don't see any scientific prove that increasing hippocampal volume can do any good for memory and I keep asking myself what other effects can such a change have in my brain.<BR/>It's quite scary knowing that these drugs can increase hippocampal volume and I see no reason to be jumping of joy.<BR/>What is known about the brain is nothing.<BR/>If we go this way we will have to remember that men's brain is bigger than women's.<BR/>So Mr. Bremner you're much more clever than me.<BR/>I see.<BR/>You're all claiming absurdities and making affirmatives as if you were dealing with an exact science.<BR/>At least researches will have a lot to laugh around 2.097.Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889189418315180865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-77601210919970729672008-10-15T18:41:00.000+01:002008-10-15T18:41:00.000+01:00I believe this is the study that is being uin this...I believe this is the study that is being uin this book: <BR/><BR/>Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. edited by D. Richard Laws, William O'Donohue. New York, Guilford Publications, 1997.<BR/>A new edition fully revised was published in 2008.<BR/><BR/>"Furthermore SSRIs have been used in the treatment of PTSD. One study found that after a year of SSRI treatments, subjects with PTSD had a 5% increase in hippocampo volume and a 35% increase in memory function (Bremner, 2006). Together, these findings indicate a variety of reasons why SSRIs may be beneficial for offenders with multiple paraphilias." p. 547<BR/><BR/>He also claims this thing about hippocampo?<BR/><BR/>Mr. Bremner, SSRIs are being used to treat paraphilias.<BR/>What do you have to say about it?<BR/>"In recent years SSRIs have been used to reduce sex offenders' deviant sexual thoughts and fantasies."<BR/>From the same book.<BR/>You have helped destroying teenagers sexual life forever.<BR/>Did you know that?<BR/>Are you aware of people on their twenties being unable to have sex and will NEVER in their lives be able to have sex?<BR/>Can you deny it after knowing that sexual offenders are being <I>treated</I> with SSRIs?<BR/>Are you aware that people are committing suicide and homicides under this drugs?Anahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02889189418315180865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-77506365035879950992008-10-15T03:56:00.000+01:002008-10-15T03:56:00.000+01:00signed the petition. thank you for the hyperlink.signed the petition. <BR/><BR/>thank you for the hyperlink.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14474227548195593445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-1824301448139484482008-10-15T00:26:00.000+01:002008-10-15T00:26:00.000+01:00My views on relationship of pharma with medicine i...My views on relationship of pharma with medicine is here<BR/>http://www.beforeyoutakethatpill.com/2008/5/do-we-have-a-prescription-med-problem.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459981.post-56671631394894340852008-10-14T22:30:00.000+01:002008-10-14T22:30:00.000+01:00Paxil increases memory?..Ludicrous..Paxil destroys...Paxil increases memory?..<BR/><BR/>Ludicrous..<BR/><BR/>Paxil destroys cognitive abilities..Truthman30https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472167017897959954noreply@blogger.com