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Snakes in a Love Drug on St Patricks Day

March 17, 2020 8 Comments

IJME In recent years the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics has been to the forefront in grappling with tricky issues in medical ethics and politics - topics that the best known medical journals and authorities should deal with but steer clear of. One of us (DH) had a growing awareness of IJME's lead on tricky issues, but became even more aware of it at the time of the … [Read more...] about Snakes in a Love Drug on St Patricks Day

Cis- and Trans-Drug Wrecks

July 15, 2019 3 Comments

After a Montelukast Withdrawal Syndrome post two weeks back, we had more comments than after any previous post - so much so that this seemed worth noting in a Post in its own right. After last weeks Transgender Meds, we have had fewer comments than after any previous post.  This also seems worth noting in the form of a post. This is not so much a post as a series of notes … [Read more...] about Cis- and Trans-Drug Wrecks

Transgender Meds: A Call for Reports

July 8, 2019 22 Comments

This post is an invitation to report on drugs prescribed to transgender people. These include cross-sex hormones - testosterone for women, estrogen and progesterone for men, hormone-blocking agents like Lupron given to children with gender dysphoria to stop the physical changes of puberty, and other drugs like finasteride, spironolactone and birth-control pills prescribed to … [Read more...] about Transgender Meds: A Call for Reports

Lupron: Homicide of a Husband

September 18, 2014 13 Comments

Homicide

Editorial Note: This post starts with Michelle Millikan's report to FDA of the night she killed her husband. The event Several days after my 6th injection of Lupron Depot, in some kind of an impossible-to-understand and difficult-to-explain 'fugue state', I killed my husband with a gunshot to the head while he was sleeping. I have NO MEMORY of waking up at 4 am in the … [Read more...] about Lupron: Homicide of a Husband

Lupron: a Nightmare produced in Abbvie

February 18, 2014 209 Comments

IVF treatment

Editorial Note: This post is by Lynne Millican, the founder of Lupron Victims Hub. Lupron is leuporelin - one of several Relins. Lynne's story which dates from the late 1980s is still being repeated today with drugs like Goserelin - Zoladex. This group of drugs can cause seriously bad outcomes for some women. But it can be hard to know at times whether the greater problems … [Read more...] about Lupron: a Nightmare produced in Abbvie

Diane and Diana: Carly’s Story

January 8, 2013 24 Comments

Clear skin

Carly’s story: I was referred to a psychiatrist for adult ADD when I started my first year at university. I made a passing complaint to my aunt, who is also a GP, over the summer about some occasional acne around my period. She suggested that I try Diane-35. I was also taking dexedrine at the time, but had not had any problems with it. I was just fed more medication By the … [Read more...] about Diane and Diana: Carly’s Story

Weight Gain on Thyroxine

September 17, 2012 281 Comments

Bathroom scales and weight gain

If there is one thing most doctors think they know it's that weight gain can be caused by an underactive thyroid and having an overactive thyroid leads to weight loss. So the thyroid hormone, thyroxine, will lead to weight loss. And magazines, newspapers and websites, especially in the United States openly invite anyone who is overweight to get their thyroid checked. Thyroxine … [Read more...] about Weight Gain on Thyroxine

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