Thanks to R who helped trigger this important RxISK post and some doctoring. . In July 2023, RxISK ran a post, written by R, giving an account of her Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness. PPPD was new to us. R had been in regular contact for a decade because of protracted withdrawal problems. Her problems came back in waves that were difficult to manage. She was then … [Read more...] about Balancing Our Bodies and Our Selves
Antipsychotics
Deprescribing – Where does Responsibility Lie?
This post follows on from last weeks Potentially Inappropriate Deprescribing and has links to this weeks The Creation Narrative and God Complex. It brings up a painfully tricky point. Reducing Medication Burdens is perhaps the most important task in medicine today. Many well-meaning folk are aware of and raising the profile of this need and attempting to work out how to go … [Read more...] about Deprescribing – Where does Responsibility Lie?
Potentially Inappropriate Deprescribing – PID
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
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
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
Treatment Complications: Good Expert Needed
I recently had a request for input on akathisia and withdrawal related issues that for some reason charmed me into responding. The back and forth however began to sink into a quicksand that can put me off responding. There is an old aphorism about experts – a true expert is s/he who knows how little s/he knows. Sounds cute but it’s not what anyone who consults someone they … [Read more...] about Treatment Complications: Good Expert Needed
Withdrawal, PSSD and Cholinergic Drugs
Health Warning I don’t know a great deal about the issues in this post. Experts by Experience and The Marketing of Anticholinergic Maleficence along with Psychotropic Drug Follies will give some feel for the background that makes it difficult to be certain about anything linked to the cholinergic drugs. The Past Present and Future article will need to be downloaded to take to … [Read more...] about Withdrawal, PSSD and Cholinergic Drugs
Experts by Experience and Nobel Prizes
In the mid-1980s, I gave a very nice man, an in-patient, weekend leave. He hung himself. Everyone was shocked. The drug I’d put him on was the trigger to his suicide. Soon after, a medical resident called me to a case she was handling. She seemed exceptionally impressive, so I was surprised to hear afterwards she was taking an antidepressant. She told me about the … [Read more...] about Experts by Experience and Nobel Prizes