We recently ran a couple of blog posts about the possibility of a link between post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) and small fibre neuropathy: Sensory Receptors, Small Fibres and Neuropathy Antidepressant Neuropathy and the Color of Life The posts recapped some of the things we had previously discussed on the blog and also included new information about a Finnish … [Read more...] about PSSD Patients Needed for Small Fibre Neuropathy Investigation
Antidepressants
Antidepressant Neuropathy and the Color of Life
Illustration: Is There Life After Meds?, © 2014 created by Billiam James Here is a Question put to the recent RxISK post on Sensory Neuropathy. I’m a psychologist and I have made numerous attempts to discontinue antidepressants only to experience significant withdrawal symptoms. I’ve been on antidepressants for 25 years at this point and have made four unsuccessful attempts … [Read more...] about Antidepressant Neuropathy and the Color of Life
Antidepressants and Premature Death
An article appeared in the British Journal of Psychiatry some weeks ago, by Narinder Bansal and colleagues from Bristol University. Having met Narinder I can tell readers she is a very impressive woman, with an impressive husband, Petros, who are both in one way or another working on population health. She had been working in cardiovascular medicine but switched to … [Read more...] about Antidepressants and Premature Death
Sensory Receptors, Small Fibres and Neuropathy
RxISK began in 2012. One of its main goals was to offer people an opportunity to report problems they had on treatments – any treatment – and generate a report they could take to a doctor in the hope this might get the doctor to take their problem seriously. I had seen my first cases of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) in 2000, had been writing about withdrawal since the … [Read more...] about Sensory Receptors, Small Fibres and Neuropathy
Marilyn Lemak: Trial or Clemency?
A few weeks ago, an original set of four posts about Marilyn Lemak - Trial and Punishment, Then and Now, Clemency, When the Music Stops elicited mostly supportive comments from those who comment regularly on RxISK. The three posts last week, Eric Zorn and Marilyn Lemak, People Respond and Janet Lagerloef responds, drew a very different kind of response. There was a lot of … [Read more...] about Marilyn Lemak: Trial or Clemency?
Janet Lagerloef Responds to Eric Zorn
The following was written by Janet Lagerloef, a writer from Sugar Grove who is finishing up a book about her 10-year friendship with Marilyn Lemak, who is serving a sentence of life without parole for killing her three children in their Naperville home in March,1999. In last week’s issue, I covered the details of that crime and Lemak’s bid for executive clemency based on a … [Read more...] about Janet Lagerloef Responds to Eric Zorn
People Respond to Eric Zorn and Marilyn Lemak
Does Marilyn Lemak deserve mercy? Readers weigh in These messages are in reference to items in last week’s issues of the Picayune Sentinel. On my interview with Marilyn Lemak Julie S. Marilyn Lemak may have been a model citizen before and after her appalling crime. But the idea of "clemency" for her makes me queasy. I can't quite dismiss my shock and revulsion at the idea … [Read more...] about People Respond to Eric Zorn and Marilyn Lemak
Eric Zorn and Marilyn Lemak
Rxisk has featured four posts on Marilyn Lemak, Trial and Punishment, Then and Now, Clemency Hearing and When the Music Stops. Eric Zorn is a former opinion columnist for the Chicago Tribune. His bio and contact information is here. He now writes the Picayune Sentinel, where Marilyn Lemak speaks out about her bid for clemency first appeared. Marilyn Lemak: ‘I do think … [Read more...] about Eric Zorn and Marilyn Lemak
Our Love Life Needs You to be Wiked
Our Love Life Needs You © Nina Otulakowski August 2022 RxISK regularly gets enquiries about what can be done to find an answer to the sexual dysfunctions following SSRIs, Finasteride and Isotretinoin - PSSD, PFS and PRSD. RxISK and Sharks outlined the likely Endgame. This outcome would be terrible - especially as its highly likely there is someone out there who has the … [Read more...] about Our Love Life Needs You to be Wiked
Marilyn Lemak: When the Music Stops
Judith and the Head of .. © Nina Otulakowski July 2022 “I’m glad I didn’t know the way it all would end. The way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance. I could have missed the pain but I’d have had to miss the dance.” - Garth Brooks This post by Kim Witczak is the fourth about Marilyn Lemak - following Trial and Punishment, Then and Now and Clemency … [Read more...] about Marilyn Lemak: When the Music Stops