This post is linked to An Archipelago of Realities on DH.org. The link may not be clear when you start reading Archipelago but half way down it will be apparent. What is being said on Archipelago about SSRIs applies just as much to benzodiazepines here. Geriatric medicine came into being in the 1980s and with it a new word – polypharmacy – a phenomenon particularly … [Read more...] about Potentially Inappropriate Deprescribing – PID
Antidepressants
Transferring the Prize to the Research Fund
The RxISK Prize was launched on September 12, 2017. It was a campaign to raise $100,000 USD which would be offered as a prize to anyone who could provide a cure for post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD), post-finasteride syndrome (PFS), or post-retinoid sexual dysfunction (PRSD). The possibility of a research fund had been considered, but despite having chased numerous leads … [Read more...] about Transferring the Prize to the Research Fund
Sex, Death and the Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Guardian just ran an article on PSSD - It feels like we've been lobotomized. The following day they surprisingly had two articles on Singulair - Montelukast - hazards Safety fears over asthma drug after young children suffer severe side effect and A healthy kid dies and there has been no change’. For a paper that has not noticed a single hazard of a drug or vaccine … [Read more...] about Sex, Death and the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Fertility, the Moon and the Military
For Millennia, the Moon has been linked to Fertility, Healing and Creativity. It was the Goddess for Fertility. None of our ancestors, however, had to wonder if a Robot on the moon might have implications for Fertility. If you think last week's Lunar Landing of an Intuitive Machine Robot could have nothing to with Fertility – think again. We normally link medicine to the … [Read more...] about Fertility, the Moon and the Military
Fertility and Desire
Recent posts on RxISK and davidhealy.org have covered Fertility and heralded the forthcoming birth of a Fertility Zone. On RxISK Uterine Roulette and Consent No Room at the Inn Medicine, Civilization and Cradles Sex, Fertility, France and Serotonin Timeline Disaster Sex Yes, No Sex Disaster On DH Has Healthcare Gone Mad Pharmageddon and … [Read more...] about Fertility and Desire
Why Shrink Yourself to Better than Well?
This post is by Harriet Vogt. Emmanuel Macron’s recent political right turn towards ‘Old France’ includes a renewed focus on stimulating French reproduction – a ‘réarmement démographique’. Free fertility checks for 25 year olds, and funding for research into ‘bodily chemicals than can hinder fertility’. Not, of course, the pharmaceutical chemicals that most IVF clinics … [Read more...] about Why Shrink Yourself to Better than Well?
Sex, Fertility, France and Serotonin Timeline
In a recent press conference, Emmanuel Macron said that France faced a Fertility Crisis and needed a Demographic Rearmament - see Liberty, Equality, Fertility. The Timeline below traces an important contribution from the medicines we take to that crisis, left unmentioned in his speech - and the role of an important player, the Industry making those medicines. The Early … [Read more...] about Sex, Fertility, France and Serotonin Timeline
Medicine, Civilization and Cradles
Hush-a-bye baby on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle, and all. We face a problem as important or more important than Climate Change - the changing climate in healthcare - see Pharmageddon and Our Healthcare Climate. For a decade, RxISK has been pointing to a polypharmacy pandemic, … [Read more...] about Medicine, Civilization and Cradles
Drugs & Sex & Fertility – and SSRIs
Our Love Life Needs You © Nina Otulakowski August 2022 This post calls on everyone, male or female, currently or previously taking any drug who thinks that a drug may have impacted on their fertility. Fertility should be of interest to anyone taking serotonin reuptake inhibiting drugs - SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclics, antihistamines, antibiotics, analgesics and related drugs - … [Read more...] about Drugs & Sex & Fertility – and SSRIs
Uterine Roulette and Consent
This post continues with the Lonesome Heroines theme - Consent. It needs reading in conjunction with Peter Selley's Coming Clean on Neonatal Deaths. The fact these posts deal with vaccines is semi-irrelevant - they are about a development model, a playbook, set up with SSRIs that industry now apply across all products. Our Bodies, Ourselves, a book by the Boston Women's … [Read more...] about Uterine Roulette and Consent