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 "This means that if you start taking a
drug like prozac, you may have a very big reaction to it. All of a sudden you are getting more serotonin hits in a system that was already upregulated to have many extra serotonin receptors. So you may feel anxious or jittery, or have wild dreams or other side effects because you are receiving many, many more hits of serotonin and your cells have not yet downregulated to restabilize your serotonin level.
Upregulation causes another interesting problem for children of alcoholics. They—and, in my opinion, all sugar-sensitive people?"- Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.) "Once you get stabilized on prozac you start feeling better—less depressed, more optimistic and more focused. But you are still eating the way you always have—lots of sweets and starches. Let's see how things look now." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.) "You may have been put on prozac or one of the other antidepressants. But something is still wrong. Your life is still not the way you want it to be and you can't seem to find an answer that works. If this description fits you, you may be sugar sensitive. Your body chemistry may respond to sugars and certain carbohydrates (such as bread, crackers, cereal and pasta) differently than other people's. This 13 biochemical difference can have a huge effect on your moods and your behavior. How you feel is linked to what you eat—and when you eat it." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.) "It doesn't make any sense. The prozac is supposed to help—and it does. But why do the black feelings still come? They aren't as bad as in the past, but something is still off. And you are still exhausted at five in the afternoon. Here is what is happening. You have raised your serotonin level, but your blood sugar and beta-endorphin levels remain low. You still get tired and feel crabby, and your self-esteem wobbles a lot. You feel isolated and overwhelmed and find it hard to concentrate. Your first thought may be that your medication isn't working." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.) |
 "I consider it to be better than prozac, but not as good as Lexapro. It's been tested in children as young as six. It can help with OCD and panic, but can be relatively sedating.
Prozac. I use it only infrequently, because the newer generations of this class of antidepressants have fewer side effects. The use of prozac has been studied in children, though, and some have responded well to it. Various antidepressants have subtly different features, so it's often wise to do trials of several, to find the right fit."- Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "So it's easy to see if this enzyme is low and the person is, let's say, taking prozac for depression, the possibility of prozac overdose becomes a real one. This is especially true if the person has significant toxin exposure (as most of us do). It's also well known in the medical community that excessively elevated serotonin levels
(from prozac or other SSRIs) can cause suicidal depression the same way too low of a level of serotonin can."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "They give the kids—and we're talking about kids who've gone through chemotherapy and have already been exposed to huge concentrations of cancer medications—a prescription for prozac, or Ritalin, or whatever else. Some kids at the ranch refer to their daily dose of prozac as their "happy pill." A handful of them can't get out of bed in the morning without popping their prozac first—and we're talking about kids who are twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old, kids who've survived cancer.
Every day, their behavioral patterns are the same."- Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "Genie was working as a pharmaceutical representative for Eli Lilly in 1987 when the company launched the first SSRI, prozac. During sales meetings, she was instructed to target ob-gyns and sell them on prozac as a cure for the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), such as depression, mood swings, bloating, and anxiety. Evidently, the recommended sales technique worked. prozac soon accounted for one-quarter of Lilly's revenues, with annual sales reaching $2.6 billion."- C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) |
 "After prozac, a wealth of antidepressants hit the market, some of which worked similarly to and some differently from prozac. So if a doctor was treating a person with depression and prozac was not effective in reducing the symptoms, he or she might switch to an antidepressant with a different brain action. Unfortunately however, the doctor would be basing the decision on "gut" instinct; the medical literature offers almost no studies that direct doctors on when to make this switch."- Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "You might know them as prozac? Zoloft? Paxil? Luvox? Celexa? Effexor?and Serzone?
Thanks to millions and millions of dollars in promotion, some misguided books that jumped on the bandwagon, and our own marvelous tendency to believe in magic bullets, we have become a "Prozac Nation." But not without cost.
• SSRIs cause mania and delusions of grandeur in one out of every 25 children taking the drugs."- Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) |
| "Some kids at the ranch refer to their daily dose of prozac as their "happy pill." A handful of them can't get out of bed in the morning without popping their prozac first—and we're talking about kids who are twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old, kids who've survived cancer.
Every day, their behavioral patterns are the same. In the morning, right after taking their pill, they're happy, bouncing off the walls. But as the day goes on, they get more and more moody, and by nighttime, they're depressed all over again. I just can't see the positive impact of these cycles." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
| "The use of prozac has been studied in children, though, and some have responded well to it. Various antidepressants have subtly different features, so it's often wise to do trials of several, to find the right fit.
Paxil is a shorter-acting prozac, but I don't use it in children, because even though it's generally calming, it occasionally creates the paradoxical reaction of triggering agitation, and even prompting suicidal thoughts.
Atypical Antipsychotic Medications for Autism
After antidepressants, this type of medication is the second most frequently applied in the treatment of autism." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "Now, with more than a dozen new antidepressants available, I rarely use prozac because it stays in the system for prolonged periods of time. This lingering presence can be a problem when I want to prescribe other drugs, which might interact with prozac that's still present in the body. So I start with different drugs that are in the same category: SSRIs. I mentioned them before as a treatment for anxiety, but they originally were designed for use in depression." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
| "In 2000, just before prozac was to lose its patent protection in 2001, Eli Lilly changed the name from prozac to Sarafem, changed the pill's color from green and white to pink and lavender, and got FDA approval to market it for severe premenstrual symptoms, or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Prior to the launch of Sarafem, Lilly spent $2.3 billion on marketing, much more than the $1.5 billion it had spent on the drug's research and development." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) "During sales meetings, she was instructed to target ob-gyns and sell them on prozac as a cure for the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), such as depression, mood swings, bloating, and anxiety. Evidently, the recommended sales technique worked. prozac soon accounted for one-quarter of Lilly's revenues, with annual sales reaching $2.6 billion." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) |
 "The quick fixes are out there, in the form of prozac and Ambien, to name just two, but if your mood is low or you're tossing and turning in the night, prozac and Ambien won't fix the underlying problem. And these one-pill fixes don't usually last because the real problem has not been addressed. By getting rid of a symptom, you may feel better temporarily, but over time another symptom or two will emerge to make you miserable, either from a side effect of the very medication you've taken to feel better or from the actual root problem, which is being ignored."- Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
| "In 2000, just before prozac was to lose its patent protection in 2001, Eli Lilly changed the name from prozac to Sarafem, changed the pill's color from green and white to pink and lavender, and got FDA approval to market it for severe premenstrual symptoms, or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Prior to the launch of Sarafem, Lilly spent $2.3 billion on marketing, much more than the $1.5 billion it had spent on the drug's research and development." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) |
| "The quick fixes are out there, in the form of prozac and Ambien, to name just two, but if your mood is low or you're tossing and turning in the night, prozac and Ambien won't fix the underlying problem. And these one-pill fixes don't usually last because the real problem has not been addressed. By getting rid of a symptom, you may feel better temporarily, but over time another symptom or two will emerge to make you miserable, either from a side effect of the very medication you've taken to feel better or from the actual root problem, which is being ignored." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
| "It's also well known in the medical community that excessively elevated serotonin levels
(from prozac or other SSRIs) can cause suicidal depression the same way too low of a level of serotonin can. Which begs the question: Could some of the suicides blamed on these antidepressants have been prevented with simple genetic testing for the gene that's responsible for the detox enzyme? I personally think so.
Interestingly, on the other hand, some folks make too much of this enzyme (as well as other enzymes) and require higher doses of drugs for the therapeutic benefit." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "In the mid-1980s, when prozac was still in the experimental stage, Lilly researchers discovered that the brain fights against the abnormal accumulation of serotonin by shutting down its production of serotonin for a period of time.2 This compensatory reaction produces additional, unpredictable imbalances, and may account for why so many cases of antidepressant madness occur shortly after starting the drug or changing doses."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "SSRI antidepressants such as prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft are said to be "selective" because they mainly affect the neurotransmitter called serotonin. Selectivity, in this case, is a misleading concept. The serotonin system is the single most extensive neuronal network in the brain. It originates deep within the confines of the midbrain and then spreads out, reaching into the nooks and crannies from the memory centers in the temporal lobe to the emotional and intellectual centers of the limbic system and frontal lobes." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "When a woman's moods become wildly unstable while taking an antidepressant like prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, or Effexor, when she wastes her family fortune, starts having multiple affairs, and is found running naked in the streets—in almost all cases the prescribing doctor will inform the patient and her family that the medication merely "unmasked" her "bipolar disorder." With this twisting of the truth, every adverse drug reaction becomes the patient's fault and is used to justify prescribing even more drugs." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
| "Depersonalization is a listed side effect of prozac and the SSRIs. Remember the quote from ON NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, "The depersonalization that results from these extraordinary biomedical advances is subtle and pervasive...Our sense of moral responsibility is being steadily eroded by depersonalizing forces that are far beyond our control. Most potent among these forces are our technologies, and in particular those that are being developed in the context of medicine." - Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More (Get the book.) |
 "What to do when the FDA epidemiologist in charge of analyzing all the antidepressant studies involving children concludes, just like the British drug authorities, that twice as many children treated with the new drugs (except prozac, which is available as an inexpensive generic) became suicidal, and that the FDA should therefore discourage doctors from treating children with these drugs? Just bar the expert from testifying at the FDA's public hearing. Then don't make him available for an interview with the New York Times, which reported the story on April 16,2004."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
| "Depressives who take prozac change into socialites. Huxley's exhausted men and women of the future swallow their Soma and have orgies. Huxley's Soma makes people happy with things they formerly felt unbearable. It is sad that at the end of a century that has brought prosperity to much of the industrialized world those leading a normal, even successful life cannot resist the need to banish their bad moods by swallowing a pill." And Bruce W." - Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D., Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? The Rest of the Story on the New Class of SSRI Antidepressants prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Lovan, Luvox & More (Get the book.) |
 "News reports of the disorder began just as marketers at Eli Lilly repackaged prozac in a lavender and pink capsule, renamed it the sweeter-sounding Sarafem, and began selling it to treat this new disease. Lilly's television ads promoting the "new" drug showed a frustrated woman trying to untangle a shopping cart from a messy lineup of carts in front of a store. "Think it's PMS?" the announcer asked. "It could be PMDD."
Lilly's marketing methods did not work as well in Europe."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "In December 2003 European regulators forced Lilly to stop selling prozac, also known as fluoxetine, for the premenstrual disorder, saying it was "not a well-established disease." "There was considerable concern that women with less severe premenstrual symptoms might erroneously receive a diagnosis of PMDD resulting in widespread inappropriate use of fluoxetine," wrote Lilly executives in a letter announcing the regulators' decision to British doctors. Medical marketers owe much of their success at creating new disorders to the fact that there is no real definition of disease." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Arif Khan, a psychiatrist in Bellevue, Washington, reviewed the data from the dozens of clinical trials that companies had performed to prove that Zoloft, prozac, Paxil, and six other antidepressants actually worked. These drugs are now some of the most prescribed medicines in America. Dr. Khan and his colleagues found fifty-two completed trials of these drugs, which involved more than ten thousand patients. In more than half these studies, the sugar tablet relieved the patients' depression just as well as, or better than, the antidepressant." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
| "Paxil is one of the commonly used prozac copycats that also include Celexa, Lexapro, Luvox, and Zoloft (see table I in appendix A). All are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that block the normal removal of the neurotransmitter serotonin from its active site in between neurons in the brain. Among them, in my clinical experience, Paxil is the antidepressant most often implicated in acts of violence and suicide.
One month later, Harry's prescription was increased to 30 mg and then 40 mg per day over a one-week period, well within the suggested dose range for treating depression." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
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