Quote from Jessicaca:

NO epilepsy!! The man has the personality of a tick!! He's drove me nuts but he was in the same practices as my LSW so I thought it was easier. Well he's going out of network and I'm forced to find a new one. I'm not at all upset. I just hink I'm on too many drugs and I want some changes made. So I am looking forward to the new psych. Calling today to get in sooner if possible.

Thanks for all your info. I've made a list to discuss with the new dr. I have never needed to be on so many meds before (first since being pregnant, that really throws you off) and there's a lot to keep up with.

Of course by the time we get this all regulted, I'll want another baby. LOL isn't that how it always works out.

Have you had any luck doing yoga?? It helped me go off med completely about 5yrs ago but I haven't got back into it yet. Just wondering if I was the only one who found help with it.

God, they use drugs for so many off label use these days. Personally, I think off label use should be outlawed, but it isn't. A drug rep who also had a PHd for the company who made Neurontin blew the whistle when they had ordered him to convince doctors to off label use that drug. He knew it could cause suicidal feelings among other things...it was only FDA approved for seizures. Luckily, he was smart enough to have hard evidence to prove it what the company was doing. So, the courts found them guilty of all charges and now the class action lawsuits are pouring in. It just goes to show what goes on in the psych drug industry. Zyprexa is another drug facing lawsuits as it was causing people to get diabetes and go into diabetic comas who didn't have diabetes.

I know a woman given an AD for post-partum depression. I asked he if she took painkillers after giving birth. Narcotics can cause depression itself; and surely exaggerate post-partum....however, some partum depression is really quite norma. She had taken the narcotics prescribed to her, so it seems they did make her post-partum much worse than it should have been. So on to the antidepressant....

Now she wants another child, but the doctor advised her not to because of the Effexor. But she can't get off it without severe withdrawals, so she feels stuck.

So goes the story of these drugs! :rolleyes:

As far as post partum, I think I got lucky....I brought the pain killers home, but my husband was wary of them and said one nurse told him tylenol would work just fine. So that's what I took; good ol, tylenol . As a result, my post-partum depression was barely noticable, perhaps it wouldn't have been so if I had taken the narcotics. Maybe I would have been on an AD as a result of that, who knows? :eek: