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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 511717" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I wonder how much money or other incentives are being tossed ehr way by the drug companies. I know that many of you think I am a bit paranoid when I talk about docs being strongly strongly influenced by the drug companies, but my college major was marketing and my mom was a marketing prof for over 2 decades and I know a LOT of people who become drug co reps and they toss money, gifts, samples, trips at every doctor who will talk to them to get them to not document in any way that a drug has adverse effects or a person has a bad reaction to a medication. The money is not so much tossed as a check or cash, but as fees to go to conferences, to speak at them, etc..... in my opinion it is a HUGE problem. It is also a major factor causing the FSA to publish a number for patients/parents of patients to report adverse side effects of medications straight to the FDA. They realized that very very few docs ever reported problems and the drug co's squash reports of medication problems and reports from studies that show problems. </p><p></p><p>You can probably get info off of the drug website or packaging about the side effects that can occur in young children esp but also in all people. it is a big part of the warnings for the medications that they can cause aggression in people esp kids. </p><p></p><p>I would start shoppng for a new psychiatrist because I hate the double talk. </p><p></p><p>There is NO evidence in ANYTHING I have ever seen that says taht any form of autism causes behaviors to cycle. Bipolar causes cycling. There IS a form of bipolar that is induced by ssri/snri medications like prozac though. </p><p></p><p>Wiz got aggressive on zoloft and a couple of other medications. I got aggressive and developed real phobias on effexor - it was terrifying. I became unable to leave my home, and if I could leave the house and I saw 3-4 people together i was afraid they were going to hurt me. I KNEW that they were not, but I was TERRIFIED. It was the most awful feeling and then I had severe withdrawal symptoms when I stopped taking the medication. They started less than an HOUR after the first missed dose and finally I found help online for them. I learned that prozac stays in the body the longest and a single dose of it every few days would keep the worst of the withdrawal symptoms at bay. If I hadn't found that I am terrified of what I might have done because I really wanted to die. I KNEW it was irrational, and was just waiting for husband to get home to have him take me to the hospital for a psychiatric admit, ti was that bad. Luckily I had an old rx of prozac (a few months old) and I took that and within a few hours things were much, much better and I wasn't as scared and I didn't want to hurt myself. </p><p></p><p>So there ARE warnings and these medications CLEARLY can do that. Very few docs will even admit that the drugs can have this effect - and in my opinion that is a HUGE problem. Sadly, most of the info that docs get about medications come from what the drug reps tell them because they are so busy they don't keep up with what is published about the medications they rx. </p><p></p><p>I am sorry she is unwilling to put what you and she know is the truth into writing. I wonder what the chart shows from appts at the time when he was on the medication and when she took him off of the medication?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 511717, member: 1233"] I wonder how much money or other incentives are being tossed ehr way by the drug companies. I know that many of you think I am a bit paranoid when I talk about docs being strongly strongly influenced by the drug companies, but my college major was marketing and my mom was a marketing prof for over 2 decades and I know a LOT of people who become drug co reps and they toss money, gifts, samples, trips at every doctor who will talk to them to get them to not document in any way that a drug has adverse effects or a person has a bad reaction to a medication. The money is not so much tossed as a check or cash, but as fees to go to conferences, to speak at them, etc..... in my opinion it is a HUGE problem. It is also a major factor causing the FSA to publish a number for patients/parents of patients to report adverse side effects of medications straight to the FDA. They realized that very very few docs ever reported problems and the drug co's squash reports of medication problems and reports from studies that show problems. You can probably get info off of the drug website or packaging about the side effects that can occur in young children esp but also in all people. it is a big part of the warnings for the medications that they can cause aggression in people esp kids. I would start shoppng for a new psychiatrist because I hate the double talk. There is NO evidence in ANYTHING I have ever seen that says taht any form of autism causes behaviors to cycle. Bipolar causes cycling. There IS a form of bipolar that is induced by ssri/snri medications like prozac though. Wiz got aggressive on zoloft and a couple of other medications. I got aggressive and developed real phobias on effexor - it was terrifying. I became unable to leave my home, and if I could leave the house and I saw 3-4 people together i was afraid they were going to hurt me. I KNEW that they were not, but I was TERRIFIED. It was the most awful feeling and then I had severe withdrawal symptoms when I stopped taking the medication. They started less than an HOUR after the first missed dose and finally I found help online for them. I learned that prozac stays in the body the longest and a single dose of it every few days would keep the worst of the withdrawal symptoms at bay. If I hadn't found that I am terrified of what I might have done because I really wanted to die. I KNEW it was irrational, and was just waiting for husband to get home to have him take me to the hospital for a psychiatric admit, ti was that bad. Luckily I had an old rx of prozac (a few months old) and I took that and within a few hours things were much, much better and I wasn't as scared and I didn't want to hurt myself. So there ARE warnings and these medications CLEARLY can do that. Very few docs will even admit that the drugs can have this effect - and in my opinion that is a HUGE problem. Sadly, most of the info that docs get about medications come from what the drug reps tell them because they are so busy they don't keep up with what is published about the medications they rx. I am sorry she is unwilling to put what you and she know is the truth into writing. I wonder what the chart shows from appts at the time when he was on the medication and when she took him off of the medication? [/QUOTE]
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