Warning: Rant Ahead, Anti Depressants and the Medical Community

This is something that drives me pretty crazy....WHY,WHY,,,,,OHHHHHHHHHH WHY, without fail, does every therapist, MD, pharmacist, nurse, counselor: in short EVERY member of the "medical" community quote the official "party line" when it comes to clients or patients who have had very adverse effects when trying to get off of SSRIS/anti-depressents? Why, when patients report horrible headaches, mind numbing fatigue. unending nausea,anxiety attacks, brain zaps, insomnia, extreme body pain and quite simply hell on earth, do they stick their head in the sand and say "anti-depressants are not addictive" and "there is no clinical evidence to support that" or just say "it's all in your head". Talk about abandonment. And you KNOW that in their daily practice they have to be encountering these "side effects" in other patients. It's just like when they thought benzodiazapines were the new "wonder drugs" and they were writing scripts for Valium for you if you had a hang nail and then the reports of horrible withdrawal upon cessation of the medication starting coming in and they STILL said "can't be the medication, must be the patient". And now benzos are a class two substance and you have to go in and SEE your doc before you get a new script. It's like I was sitting in my therapist's office and was telling her that the Celexa I'd just started taking was waking me up at 4 AM without fail with a bad case of the Daily Dreads and she just looked at me and said "oh no, Celexa doesn't do that". I took a peek at the side effect profile for Celexa and it said "insomnia" in English right there. What a joke. Sometimes personal experiences outweighs "clinical evidence."

I understand right where your coming from.I've had more run ins with my doctors. Mine was not over anti-depressants but I don't think it really matters some times to any doctors when they know it all. I ended up in ICU for 3 day, and in a heart hospital, and had a catheter ran through my heart because, I had a reaction to a high blood pleasure pill. I was told by the doctors nurse that gave me the pill, I had to learn to live with some side effect from drugs. And then the doctor told me I needed help ( because I complained to much)and he pushed me over the top and now I do have to see someone. Needless to say he's not my doctor anymore. Trying to deal with so many things at the same time drives me crazy. You look to the doctors for answer to whats going on with you and most of the time your telling them what to do. I've learned more on the computer about crohn's and depression than the doctors have told me. Now my therapist wants me to some what forget I have crohn's and come up with something to do and talk about it when I go back to see her. I have a hard time putting the crohn's out of my mind. I do a lot of things, I do crafts, but my life has changed so much, I lost my job, and for quite awhile my life. I hate going to the doctor but I can't not so I have to play the games.


Dawn

I will try to put a smile on your faces...........my Pdoc is ready to fire me..........can you believe that??? Little ole easy going me?

She asked me if I needed surgery would I operate on myself?  Of course you know me and it was out of my mouth before I could stop myself................I said "Maybe"

I am the one living with the depression and anxiety and I won't be talked down to and have all my suggestions blown out of the water.

She may have some valid reasons for firing me.............ah well, nurses do not make good patients.

Hugs to all
Kitt