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Black Robe, White Coat
April 11, 2022 | 3 Comments

Black Robe, White Coat spirals out from Sanctuary Trauma, The Invisible Doctor and Strangers in the Room.  Black Robe, a book by Brian Moore, was published in 1985. It centred on a Jesuit (Black Robe) Mission to convert the People of what is now called Quebec in the 1630s. Movie here. An early scene from […]

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Strangers in the Room: Vaccine Mandates
April 3, 2022 | 8 Comments

When Kate and William went to their doctor to ask about a medical exemption for him following the brain haemorrhage he had had two days after his second vaccination (See Thinking Fast and Slow), Kate was bewildered at a disconnect between her and the doctor in the room with them, a doctor she normally thought […]

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The Invisible Doctor
March 28, 2022 | 23 Comments

From her first email M seemed completely believable. Everything since has added to her believability. So why is she not believed? This post offers another example of repeated Sanctuary Trauma, outlined in last week’s post, in earlier Kidnapped Daughter posts and in all posts tagged Medical Kidnap. In The Beginning Thirteen years ago, this spring […]

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Sanctuary Trauma and Lariam Toxicity
March 21, 2022 | 7 Comments

Illustration: Lost on the Sea of Medicine, © 2014 created by Billiam James This is the first of 4 posts   on the idea of Sanctuary Trauma.  Some weeks ago, Trixie Foster got in touch.  Trixie is an extraordinary campaigner on behalf of those injured by Lariam (mefloquine) – see the Strange History and Lariam Hell. […]

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Brain Fog: What is it? How to Treat it.
March 15, 2022 | 22 Comments

Lots of people complain of cognitive problems on or after taking medications, whether psychotropic drugs, cholesterol lowering statins, asthma drugs like montelukast, or fluoroquinolone antibiotics. They often use the word “Brain Fog” to cover this.  Women get Brain Fog in pregnancy that can linger afterwards. People with Long Covid complain of Brain Fog as do […]

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New Study of Antidepressants and Vision Problems
March 7, 2022 | 21 Comments

The printed version of our new paper “Development and persistence of patient-reported visual problems associated with serotonin reuptake inhibiting antidepressants” has just been published. We couldn’t afford open access, so it would normally only be available to purchase or for subscribers of the journal. However, we’ve paid a fee of $200 USD which allows us […]

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Welcome to Mondor, Frodo
March 1, 2022 | 5 Comments

Quarantined Last October one of the key researchers on PSSD noticed a thread on Reddit about sexual dysfunction post vaccine.  Apparently the thread has been quarantined and you have to join the Reddit group to access it – this is likely true about a lot of vaccine related threads. Here are two testimonies that appear.  […]

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New England Journal of Medicine: Baden et al
February 24, 2022 | 7 Comments

This post, a twin to the New England Journal of Misinformation post, has been created for its hyperlink.  It does however play into the current post about cholecystitis following vaccination – in this case with the Moderna vaccine – which features in Tales of an Unexpected Gallbladder. It also seems to show that NEJM are […]

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Tales of an Unexpected Gallbladder
February 16, 2022 | 11 Comments

This post was written by Shane Cooke’s mother Mary.  There have been developments since – see below.  I used to really enjoy Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dall when they were first broadcast on television. Each was a complete story with a twist in its tail – usually a most unexpected twist. They seem […]

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Leader with a Mandate to Eliminate Contagion
February 4, 2022 | 11 Comments

Breaking News Jorge Mario Moves with the Times Having been the first Head of State to introduce Mandates, Jorge Mario Bergoglio appears to have gotten the bit between his teeth and is now embracing (perhaps the wrong word) modern medicine rather completely. While one will surely come, there is not at present an mRNA  gene […]

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Post Minoxidil Syndrome
January 26, 2022 | 8 Comments

Greetings all, I want to thank RxISK for presenting this opportunity for me to share my experience with this drug and my persisting side effects from it. It all started in April 2021, I was an insecure eighteen year-old Canadian guy slowly losing his hair like many others out there. Desperate for a cure, I […]

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Is Recovery from Medication Possible?
January 14, 2022 | 38 Comments

In response to recent posts, especially A Time for PSSD, Laurie Oakley got in touch with the following thoughts.  Laurie has had a series of six posts on Pharmaceutical Rape on davidhealy.org starting in February 2015 but mostly from early January 2016.  These outline her own difficulties recovering from medication induced injury and the equal […]

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No sex please (we're on antidepressants)
Sex Please but We Are on Antidepressants
January 5, 2022 | 4 Comments

This anonymous post stemmed from a RxISK report, which came in following A Time for PSSD last week. If anyone else, female or male, has started an antidepressant before or early in puberty with things not working quite as a result – anything from being asexual through to intrusive uncontrollable orgasms – you can file […]

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A Time for Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction?
December 28, 2021 | 13 Comments

This post has been put together by L who in the last few years has been an inspiration to many people suffering the ill-effects of a number of different drugs.  Like mythical heroines she has many different aliases.  When it comes to the harms done to us, behind heroes like Zorro or the Scarlet Pimpernel, […]

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Diagnostic Criteria for Enduring Sexual Dysfunction
December 19, 2021 | 11 Comments

Background We noticed that a lack of diagnostic criteria was increasingly being mentioned in the published literature on post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD). The condition was being described as difficult to diagnose because there was no commonly accepted definition. At the same time, a number of new websites and online discussions were appearing, many of which […]

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The Handmaid’s Vaccine
December 9, 2021 | 28 Comments

This post is a companion to Where Does the Misinformation Come From? on DH.org, which gives the slides and text of a lecture on Monday evening. Norman Fenton asked me to give the talk to a group that is neither pro nor anti vaccines or drugs but were all interested in how we go about […]

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There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie
November 29, 2021 | 49 Comments

This post is the partner of The Eclipse of Health Care.  See also Warning re Health. Before reading (and after finishing) it’s worth listening to Peter Seeger’s There was a Young Woman. Mandating Unproven Technologies Governments are considering mandating, or already have mandated an unproven technology, against a background of vaccine approval and pharmacovigilance processes […]

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Warning re Health
November 28, 2021 | 6 Comments

This is a warning about two linked posts – with two more next week. The Eclipse of Health Care features on davidhealy.org. It has a partner There was a Young Woman who Swallowed a Lie on RxISK.org These were combined in one document – Mandating Unproven Technologies, which along with a set of appendices was […]

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Mentally Hijacked by Doxycycline
November 22, 2021 | 16 Comments

There are several previous posts on this topic – Doxycycline causes Suicide and Suicide is Painless  and becoming suicidal on an antibiotic.  None of them give as compelling a picture of what the problem is like from the inside as this letter that came to RxISK some months ago. A Life in Good Shape I […]

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Albert’s Algorithm: Be Very Afraid
November 8, 2021 | 58 Comments

Last week in Washington a meeting was convened to look at Vaccine Harms – the harms suffered post-vaccine by some pro-vaccine people, some so much pro that they enrolled for vaccine clinical trials. See Mandated Harms. The meeting heard testimony from ten people, eight of whom I had interviewed, all of whom in my opinion […]

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Mandated Harms: The Day of the Dead
November 2, 2021 | 45 Comments

Tens of thousands of  people have been killed or badly injured by Covid vaccines.  I have had the privilege to meet and assess over ten of the injured in the last two weeks, thanks to Bri Dressen. On November 2, the Day of the Dead, in the Capitol, Bri, along with Senator Ron Johnson, and […]

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The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry
October 25, 2021 | 17 Comments

This post links intimately with The Standardization of Psychiatry – you might even call it A Necessary Shadow.  Standardization was a lecture on psychiatry given in the Royal Society of Medicine on October 5.  To find out what’s going on you need to read the Back Story to Standardization.  Back in 2013, I was asked […]

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Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy
October 18, 2021 | 48 Comments

In 2015, there was a series of posts on davidhealy.org Pharmaceutical Rape, Pharmaceutical Rape is not a Metaphor, Pharmaceutical Rape: Cast of Characters, Pharmaceutical Rape: The Good Patient, Pharmaceutical Rape: Doctors Still Know Best, Pharmaceutical Rape: Discrimination, Pharmaceutical Rape: Ending our Tolerance. The following year GlaxoSmithKline lawyers deposed me in the Dolin case, spending hours […]

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Regula(to)r Woman or Mother: Wright as Raine
October 11, 2021 | 8 Comments

This post needs to be read in conjunction with Companies and Mothers on davidhealy.org. Most people think pharmaceutical companies are evil and regulators are on our side.  Both are intensely bureaucratic.  They hide behind procedures.  Judge for yourself which has the most humanity. June Raine CEO, MHRA 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf  London E14 4PU […]

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Love in a Time of Covid
October 4, 2021 | 2 Comments

President Joseph E Biden The White House Washington D.C September 28th 2021 Dear Dr Joe We have a lot in common – Irish, Catholic backgrounds and perhaps one or two other bits mixed in, and a concern for those injured or killed in a War. Your addition of the role of doctor to your portfolio […]

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Mandates for Vaccines
September 26, 2021 | 42 Comments

Vaccine mandates feature prominently in the news at the moment. These are contentious for some health personnel, nurses and doctors among others, who are refusing to be vaccinated and willing to lose jobs if need be. France and the United States, countries not typically associated with an authoritarian approach, have made Covid vaccines compulsory. Some […]

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Cipro will do the Trick: FDA, FAD and You
September 20, 2021 | 20 Comments

There are many RxISK posts on antibiotics – look under antibiotics – with  6 or so dealing with Fluoroquinolones from the original Flox-Tox to Fluoroquinolones: Not so Carte Blanche. Miriam Knight has written this one.  Doctor: “I’ll give you an antibiotic to clear that up”. Me: “Thanks very much”. I imagine just about everyone reading […]

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Mind Softens Warning about Sexual Side Effects of Antidepressants
September 13, 2021 | 11 Comments

Mind is a mental health charity based in England and Wales. For several years, their information on antidepressants has included a warning that sexual side effects may continue after stopping an SSRI or SNRI – Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD). We recently contacted Mind after noticing a change to the wording. See the emails below. […]

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A Birth to Announce
September 6, 2021 | 3 Comments

Samizdat is proud to announce the imminent birth of El Naufragio de lo Singular – a transformation into Spanish of Shipwreck of the Singular.  The birth will be before the end of September. As the expectant parents wait – they invite you this post as the equivalent of a baby shower party. Baby showers may […]

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From The Little Mermaid to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
August 22, 2021 | 11 Comments

This post was triggered by the reactions of women to recent posts here and here.  It has a partner in Escape from a Prescription Drug Maze.  It fits with a relaunch of the RxISK Facebook Page, where the theme of how do we stop ourselves being silenced is one that will be developed. Tracey whose […]

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