Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate and Akathisia
May 26, 2023 | 7 Comments

This post came from a regular contributor to RxISK and DH posts.  An earlier comment pointed to something interesting and has developed into this post which should be of interest to anyone who has a withdrawal problem that entails some kind of akathisia. When I came out of a psychiatric hospital in Summer 2019, I […]

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Withdrawal Mysteries. Jon and Justin’s Journeys
May 15, 2023 | 9 Comments

Being Hooked to and having to Withdraw from Antidepressants, especially any that act on the serotonin system, is one of the greatest public health issues of our day.  Close to 15 per cent of the population of most Western countries are affected. Peter Groot and colleagues in the Netherlands have done more than anyone to […]

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Sexual Mysteries. What is in a Touch?
May 7, 2023 | 2 Comments

This is an important post for anyone hunting for a test for PSSD.  If the CT fibres mentioned here are not fibres that show up distinctly on either skin biopsy or CCM, then these tests may not pick up a very real problem.  We need some research on whether CT fibres show around the ankle […]

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The Window to the Body and perhaps the Soul
April 20, 2023 | 7 Comments

It might sound corny but it has long been said that our Eyes are the Window to our Soul. Whatever about the soul, every medical student gets told by ophthalmologists that the Eyes are the Window to the Body. They claim to be able to detect almost every possible disease by looking at our eyes. […]

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Touch Fibres, Autonomic Fibres and Kissing
April 12, 2023 | 11 Comments

Someone, who regularly emails breaking research that I haven’t spotted or don’t have time to spot, got in touch recently with great insights on an article about Kisspeptin that I had seen.  But I had managed to miss several things he spotted that may be important to anyone thinking about PSSD. A Kiss Before Sex […]

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Benzodiazepine Facebook and Other Groups
March 30, 2023 | 5 Comments

Nicole Lamberson who will be familiar to many from Medicating Normal asked Barbara Connolly from Benzo Warrior to write a piece on Benzo Support Groups especially linked to Facebook.  This was to fill a benzodiazepine shapeed hole in the DD and AA group post.    Nicole Lamberson asked me to write something about what a […]

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What Twitter doesn’t Want you to Know about Sex
February 6, 2023 | 5 Comments

This brief post links to a development since the last – Everything you Want to Know about Sex – post. Twitter like Woody Allen seems to believe you shouldn’t be allowed to ask certain questions. A few weeks ago I did a podcast with Liz Tucker on her What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You podcast series […]

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Podcasts, YouTube Channels, Blogs and Related
January 23, 2023 | 3 Comments

In some of the comments after the last post, POGO mentioned that Josef Witt-Doerring has done two interviews with me so far and posted them on his site. The Risks of Antidepressants  and Antidepressants and Mass Shootings/Murder Suicide: An interview has also appeared on Demystifying Science podcast with  Anastasia & Michael Shilo The Podcast called […]

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Twas the NICE before Christmas.
December 22, 2022 | 15 Comments

To the Sounds of a Drum © Nina Otulakowski November 2022 This letter, which has had no response, needs to be read in conjunction with Can you Hear the Suzerain Call? Letter to Dr S Roberts, CEO, Ms Nebhrajani, Chair, NICE November 30 2022 Dear Drs Roberts and Ms. Nebhrajani I wrote to your predecessors […]

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Getting Off Proton Pump Inhibitors
December 14, 2022 | 6 Comments

  I would like to describe my experiences with Omeprazole / Esomeprazole to warn others of the ease with which it is possible to become hooked on this medicine, or other so called Proton Pump Inhibitors PPIs. To start with here is an explanation of these drugs that could have saved me about 9 months […]

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Science, Kansas and Pancakes
November 7, 2022 | 10 Comments

A long time ago, following work on the Restoration of Study 329, I was approached by Peter Goetzsche, featured above, to work on restoring the two trials that had got Prozac (fluoxetine) approved for children for depression. I may have suggested this idea to Peter in that from 2004 or so I was aware that […]

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Is there life after meds?
Antidepressant Neuropathy and the Color of Life
October 10, 2022 | 16 Comments

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 […]

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Sensory Receptors, Small Fibres and Neuropathy
September 21, 2022 | 33 Comments

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 […]

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The Holy Grail: Searching for a Cure for PSSD
June 21, 2022 | 47 Comments

The Holy Grail © Nina Otulakowski June 2022 You need to click on the image to get the full effects. Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) is a debilitating consequence of taking serotonin reuptake inhibiting drugs (SSRIs, SNRIs, some antihistamines, some antibiotics, some analgesics and other medicines) that can leave people of all ages, and from all countries […]

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The Caste System in Medicine
May 2, 2022 | 9 Comments

This post is by Spruce who has been a regular contributor to these columns.  It follows from his comments on The Invisible Doctor and it adds to that post which has had a lot of comments since.  Humans seem to have a tendency to caste systems but most people would be surprised to think you […]

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The Invisible Doctor
March 28, 2022 | 23 Comments

From her first email M seemed completely believable. Everything since has added to her believability. So why is she not believed? This post offers another example of repeated Sanctuary Trauma, outlined in last week’s post, in earlier Kidnapped Daughter posts and in all posts tagged Medical Kidnap. In The Beginning Thirteen years ago, this spring […]

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Sanctuary Trauma and Lariam Toxicity
March 21, 2022 | 7 Comments

Illustration: Lost on the Sea of Medicine, © 2014 created by Billiam James This is the first of 4 posts   on the idea of Sanctuary Trauma.  Some weeks ago, Trixie Foster got in touch.  Trixie is an extraordinary campaigner on behalf of those injured by Lariam (mefloquine) – see the Strange History and Lariam Hell. […]

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Brain Fog: What is it? How to Treat it.
March 15, 2022 | 22 Comments

Lots of people complain of cognitive problems on or after taking medications, whether psychotropic drugs, cholesterol lowering statins, asthma drugs like montelukast, or fluoroquinolone antibiotics. They often use the word “Brain Fog” to cover this.  Women get Brain Fog in pregnancy that can linger afterwards. People with Long Covid complain of Brain Fog as do […]

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Is Recovery from Medication Possible?
January 14, 2022 | 38 Comments

In response to recent posts, especially A Time for PSSD, Laurie Oakley got in touch with the following thoughts.  Laurie has had a series of six posts on Pharmaceutical Rape on davidhealy.org starting in February 2015 but mostly from early January 2016.  These outline her own difficulties recovering from medication induced injury and the equal […]

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Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy
October 18, 2021 | 48 Comments

In 2015, there was a series of posts on davidhealy.org Pharmaceutical Rape, Pharmaceutical Rape is not a Metaphor, Pharmaceutical Rape: Cast of Characters, Pharmaceutical Rape: The Good Patient, Pharmaceutical Rape: Doctors Still Know Best, Pharmaceutical Rape: Discrimination, Pharmaceutical Rape: Ending our Tolerance. The following year GlaxoSmithKline lawyers deposed me in the Dolin case, spending hours […]

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Once We Were Warriors Tackling Prescription Drugs
August 16, 2021 | 6 Comments

The title of this echoes We Were Warriors but also Once Were Warriors. The post dovetails with What’s a Life Worth, Morgan vs Morgan, and next weeks Escaping the Prescription Drug Maze. All will be on the Politics of Care Forum. The post copies a letter sent to J Mercer MP last week, with images […]

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What’s a life worth? Is anyone listening?
August 9, 2021 | 19 Comments

This post is by Tracey G.  Tracey approached me and as you’ll see others in October 2020 for materials on antidepressants to give her Member of Parliament, Johnny Mercer.  She had been in touch in 2018 – “lost in the world of not being taken seriously or believed with regards to a possible protracted withdrawal”.  […]

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Farewell Marchino
April 30, 2021 | 102 Comments

Nearly a week ago a group of Italians sent this post written after one of their number gave up his struggle with PSSD and the system.  We’ve been very slow posting it – partly because of the emotions it stirs. Its quiet beginning and contained fury at the end conjured up Marc Antony’s speech after […]

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Sex, No Sex, Sex, No Sex….
April 21, 2021 | 19 Comments

Accessible New Resource RxISK has a new resource – a literature resource.  PSSD Literature.  You can download any of these articles and take them to any doctor, lawyer or other person you see.  While in this area on RxISK, have a look at the other material under Tools. Anyone who becomes aware of any other […]

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Antidepressants: Education and Disability Certificates
March 22, 2021 | 38 Comments

This post covers difficulties primarily on antidepressants that medicines can cause to people in schools or universities who end up unable to study or do course-work, as well as the difficulties people can have trying to get off medicines, a process that can be pretty disabling. The materials linked to this post are being put […]

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MAiD in Canada: Treatment Resistant Depression
February 19, 2021 | 16 Comments

See accompanying MAiD in Canada and Sex. Illustration: Meds © created by Billiam James The provision of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) is under review in Canada with debate about access for patients with mental illness. An amendment to the draft legislation eliminating the exclusion of people with mental illness was proposed by Senator Stan […]

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: Avoid Doctors?
February 15, 2021 | 38 Comments

Antidepressant Withdrawal and Dependence is one of the greatest public health crises of our time.  Ed White has recently featured in the UK recounting his experiences he drifting into dependence on antidepressants and finding that the people best placed to help him and you were others in same position supporting each other through groups on […]

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I Am Your Patient Too
December 24, 2020 | 25 Comments

This 2020 closes in the middle of Covid19 and with the package leaflets of SSRI and SNRI antidepressants just updated in Europe with a new but evasive Warning: ‘Cases have been observed where symptoms of sexual dysfunction have persisted after discontinuation of treatment‘. Doctors, did you notice? Here I am.  My sexual symptoms caused by […]

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Daffodils and Withdrawal?
December 6, 2020 | 14 Comments

Stimulated by the recent Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) discussion, the following began as a comment from one of RxISK’s background activists but grew into a post. RxISK is not about to desert orthodox medicine and turn to herbalism but herbalism may well have a lot to offer.  It looks like many traditional remedies actually do […]

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TRP Drugs and Herbs for Withdrawal and PSSD
November 25, 2020 | 25 Comments

We first mentioned Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels/ Receptors in several RxISK posts about withdrawal and they feature on the RxISK Complex Withdrawal Page under Ion Channels.  The table on that page gives a fascinating list of herbs and other compounds that could conceivably play a part in stabilizing people who are having withdrawal problems. […]

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