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What’s Sex Got to Do with It

January 23, 2020 29 Comments

This post gives the text of an article that has just been published online in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine - see Here. Another version of the material is in video form - Antidepressants and Sex: a Strange Story. Background In June 2019, in response to a petition, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) asked pharmaceutical companies to warn that sexual … [Read more...] about What’s Sex Got to Do with It

The Banality of Health Service Evil

January 9, 2020 39 Comments

In the early 1960s, the American social psychologist, Stanley Milgram, ran now famous experiments using university students - then largely white and middle-class - as his subjects . His research interest lay in the Nazi concentration camps and the defence used by Adolf Eichmann (featured image) in his trial in Israel in 1962 - that he was only following orders. The … [Read more...] about The Banality of Health Service Evil

Healthcare or Health Service?

December 23, 2019 15 Comments

Up to 1800, no-one went near a doctor if they could avoid it.  At best doctors might amuse the patient while nature cured the disease - the doctor's business was to take as much of the credit and the money as possible.  The best was rare.  In an effort to get the money, doctors liked to pump us as full of stuff as possible, commonly in the process, as most people recognised, … [Read more...] about Healthcare or Health Service?

Trust Withdrawal and Antidepressants

December 10, 2019 18 Comments

The images, which are a wonderful metaphor for the coming back to life, the restoration of emotions and senses that stopping an antidepressant can bring, comes from this news item - its worth clicking on the video link There have probably been more posts about withdrawal from antidepressants - especially if PSSD is included as a legacy effect of these drugs - and certainly … [Read more...] about Trust Withdrawal and Antidepressants

Antidepressant Withdrawal – The Enemy Within

November 18, 2019 47 Comments

  National Horror Show It goes completely against the grain for almost everyone in the UK to say anything bad about the NHS.  But in the case of the antidepressant group of drugs, with the brief note the NHS has just issued alerting people to the effect that antidepressants may be difficult to stop puts the NHS in an Enemy of the People category.  The note reads: How … [Read more...] about Antidepressant Withdrawal – The Enemy Within

Sleep Problems After Stopping Antidepressants?

November 5, 2019 217 Comments

It is well known that antidepressants can interfere with a person's sleep, but it's less clear what happens after they stop taking the drug. One of our earliest blog posts from 2012 was written by someone experiencing terrifying nightmares while withdrawing from Cymbalta. The post received a number of comments from other people reporting the same problem. It would be … [Read more...] about Sleep Problems After Stopping Antidepressants?

Not the RxISK Manifesto

October 18, 2019 11 Comments

Last week's RxISK Manifesto post featured an article then just published in BMJ. The BMJ picture that went with the article looked like this.  This gives entirely the opposite message to the article. The article says a doctors job would be a lot more interesting if they listened and encouraged anyone consulting them to become researchers rather than problems.  It also … [Read more...] about Not the RxISK Manifesto

RxISK Manifesto

October 7, 2019 11 Comments

This post is close to identical to an article that has just appeared in the BMJ - Clinical Judgments, not Algorithms, are key to Patient Safety.   Immediately on taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), most people have some genital anaesthesia.1 This may be aggravated on withdrawal of the drug and can remain for years after treatment has stopped, constituting … [Read more...] about RxISK Manifesto

PSSD Patient Experiences

September 25, 2019 45 Comments

New paper "If you wish to have such “syndrome” continue what you are doing ... read obscure studies and reviews in obscure databases and I can guarantee to you that you will have it till the end of your life!" Anyone who has experienced a serious side effect from a medication will know how difficult the conversation with your doctor can be. In our new paper, “Post-SSRI … [Read more...] about PSSD Patient Experiences

Business Opportunity courtesy of Impeto Medical

September 9, 2019 32 Comments

Some months ago we had organised for 6 volunteers with PSSD to get tested for peripheral neuropathy, using a Sudoscan, made by Impeto Medical, who are based in Paris. By chance we found that there is a genital adaptor for the Sudoscan that has been in use for several years in Paris, leading to a publication over two years ago. Through a colleague, we got in contact with Dr … [Read more...] about Business Opportunity courtesy of Impeto Medical

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