(Corrie) wrote in message . com...
I had a coworker with fibromyalgia. Rough stuff. Re SSRI withdrawal,
I've read recently that it's been implicated in youth suicides.
Leaves you saying, so NOW what? "Big boys / big girls don't cry"
didn't work either. The meds have been a godsend for some, obviously
the door to hell on earth for others.

I agree that they are the best thing for some people, but what the
medical community forgets is that they need to carefully monitor the
patients that they give this stuff. One Dr. tried to give my wife some
new drug that had only been on the market about 4 or 5 weeks. He
hadn't bothered to even read the precautions from the vendor. First
thing it says is to monitor certain blood componets and liver
functions frequently during the first week and at least weekly
thereafter. He just gave her this crap and told her to take it and
come back in 6-10 weeks. I got to reading all the stuff with the drug
and found out that it had never been given to a patient for more than
three weeks and that 2 out of the total of 26 people that had been
given the drug died from complications within days of taking it.
Needless to say, we never went back and reported him to the referring
physician.


Don't blame you for wanting to get out of DFW. I left in '79 and
haven't missed it much since. Hard to believe that Beltline though
Addison was two-lane blacktop!

Did the same thing in Houston back in '80...


Be careful about "pushing the power levers up" too much - rings can
get burned that way.

Never past METO....havent broken the witness wire on the War Emergency
switch yet...


Craig C.