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I've known people on prozac, that quit cold turkey and had no withdrawal symtoms. I didn't have such luck with paxil,effexor.
Does prozac not have the withdrawal symtoms, is it not as likely to cause these problems?
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There's a lot of truth in what you say.  I'd just add that some  people who have been on SSRIs didn't have thyroid problems UNTIL they went on SSRIs.  SSRI's affect so many areas of the body - not only the brain and nervous system.  In case you haven't see the FDA list of Adverse Effects of Prozac (which is as you know an SSRI just as Celexa, Paxil, etc are) here it is (and thats an old list and reliant on the proportion of doctors who actually reported adverse effects):

"FDA Statistics (Gained through the Freedom Of Information Act)
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FDA REPORTED PROZAC CASES; TOTAL 35,230 (1987:-1995)
ALL FDA COSTART REACTION TERMS IN DATA ALPHABETICAL TERM ORDER - 04/10/96 -
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ABDO ENLARGE 35 ANEMIA MICROCYT 3
ABDO SYND ACUTE 9 ANEMIA NORMOCYT 3
ABORTION 96 ANEMIA REFRACT 1
ABSCESS 8 ANEURYSM INTRACRAN 5
ABSCESS BREAST 2 ANGINA PECTORIS 46
ABSCESS PERIODONT 1 ANGIOEDEMA 38
ACCOMMODATION ABNORM 4 ANISOCORIA 7
ACIDOSIS 15 ANOMALY CONGEN 202
ACIDOSIS DIABET 7 ANOMALY CONGEN CNS 3
ACIDOSIS LACTIC 1 ANOMALY CONGEN MS 3
ACIDOSIS RESP 4 ANOMALY CONGEN RESP 1
ACNE 80 ANOMALY HEART 2
ADAMS STOKES SYND 2 ANOMALY VASCUL 8
ADDISON CRISIS 1 ANOREXIA 396
ADENOMA 15 ANORGASMIA 566
ADENOMA THYR 1 ANTICHOLINERG SYND 12
ADH INAPPROP 85 ANTICOAG DEC 2
ADREN INSUFFIC 3 ANTICOAG INC 7
AGITATION 1191 ANTISOCIAL REACT 8
AGRANULOCYTOSIS 18 ANURIA 6
AKATHISIA 299 ANXIETY 1153
AKINESIA 8 APATHY 105
ALBUMINURIA 25 APHASIA 27
ALCOHOL INTOLER 45 APNEA 59
ALKALOSIS 1 APPETITE INC 105
ALKALOSIS RESP 4 APPLICAT SITE REACT 4
ALLERG REACT 151 ARRHYTHMIA 107
ALOPECIA 696 ARRHYTHMIA ATR 3
ALTERED DRUG LEVEL 3 ARRHYTHMIA NOD 2
ALTERED HORMONE LEVE 28 ARRHYTHMIA VENT 7
ALTERED NEUROTR LEVE 8 ARTERIOSCLEROSIS 18
AMBLYOPIA 188 ARTERIOSPASM 1
AMENORRHEA 129 ARTERITIS 6
AMNESIA 557 ARTHRALGIA 479
AMYLASE INC 23 ARTHRITIS 117
ANA 93 ARTHRITIS RHEUMAT 14
ANAPHYL 39 ARTHROSIS 79
ANEMIA 99 ASCITES 7
ANEMIA APLAST 14 ASPHYXIA 11
ANEMIA B12 DEFIC 4 ASTHENIA 788
ANEMIA FOLIC DEFIC 1 ASTHMA 97
ANEMIA HEMOL 17 ATAXIA 124
ANEMIA HEMOL DCN 1 ATAXIA CEREBELL 4
ANEMIA HEMOL DCP 4 ATELECTASIS 3
ANEMIA HEMOL ICP 1 ATROPHY MUSCLE 2
ANEMIA HYPOCHROM 32 ATROPHY OPTIC 2
ANEMIA IRON DEFIC 12 ATROPHY SKIN 3
ANEMIA MACROCYT 4 ATROPHY TESTIS 4
ANEMIA MEGALOBLAST 6 AV BLOCK 11
AV BLOCK COMP 13 CEREBROVASC DIS 10
AV BLOCK FD 6 CERVICITIS 1
AV BLOCK SD 4 CERVIX DIS 1
BARBITUR INTOX 2 CHEILITIS 2
BILIRUBINEM 68 CHILLS 96
BILIRUBINURIA 1 CHILLS FEVER 39
BIRTH PREMAT 26 CHLOASMA 1
BIRTH WEIGHT SUBNORM 2 CHOLANGITIS 3
BLEED TIME INC 44 CHOLECYST 24
BLEPHARITIS 8 CHOLELITH 20
BLIND 23 CHOLINERG SYND 1
BLIND COLOR 3 CHOREOATHETOSIS 15
BLIND NIGHT 2 CHROMATOPSIA 2
BLOOD DYSCRASIA 7 CHROMOSOME ABNORM 1
BODY ODOR 11 CINCHONISM 1
BONE DIS 10 CLITORIS ENLARGE 4
BONE FRACT SPONTAN 77 CNS DEPRESS 11
BRADYCARDIA 133 CNS STIMULAT 53
BRADYCARDIA SINUS 16 COAGUL DIS 25
BRAIN STEM DIS 3 COAGUL TIME INC 3
BRAIN SYND ACUTE 45 COGWHEEL RIGID 45
BRAIN SYND CHRON 16 COLITIS 34
BREAST ENGORGE 5 COLITIS HEM 2
BREAST ENLARGE 65 COLITIS PSEUDOMEM 3
BREAST FIBROCYST 26 COLITIS ULCER 15
BRONCHIOLITIS 3 COLLAGEN DIS 2
BRONCHITIS 57 COMA 181
BUCCOGLOSSAL SYND 126 COMA DIABET 3
BUN INC 11 COMA HEPATIC 3
BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK 25 CONFUS 591
BURSITIS 8 CONJUNCTIVITIS 39
CACHEXIA 8 CONSTIP 79
CAPILL FRAGIL INC 2 CONVULS 642
CARCINOMA 30 CONVULS GRAND MAL 275
CARCINOMA BLADDER 1 COOMBS DIR TEST POS 1
CARCINOMA BREAST 22 COORDINAT ABNORM 118
CARCINOMA CERVIX 3 COR PULM 2
CARCINOMA ENDOMETR 3 CORNEAL LESION 8
CARCINOMA GI 17 CORNEAL OPACITY 4
CARCINOMA LIVER 2 CORONARY ART DIS 22
CARCINOMA LUNG 9 COUGH INC 132
CARCINOMA PROSTATE 3 CRAMPS LEG 25
CARCINOMA SKIN 12 CREATINE PK INC 65
CARCINOMA THYR 1 CREATININE CLEAR DEC 2
CARDIOMEGALY 5 CREATININE INC 25
CARDIOMYOPATHY 12 CSF ABNORM 5
CARDIOSPASM 5 CUSHINGS SYND 4
CARDIOVASC DIS 57 CYANOSIS 12
CATARACT 43 CYST 43
CATARACT NOS 1 CYSTITIS 24
CATATON REACT 36 DEAF 82
CELLULITIS 12 DEAF PERM PART 2
CEREBELL SYND 1 DEAF TRANS PART 4
CEREBROVASC ACCID 109 DEAF TRANS TOTAL 1
DEATH 121 EDEMA LARYNX 19
DEHYDRAT 37 EDEMA LUNG 48
DELIRIUM 123 EDEMA PERIPH 191
DELUSIONS 80 EDEMA RETINAL 2
DEMENTIA 36 EDEMA SCROTUM 1
DEPERSONAL 159 EDEMA TONGUE 62
DEPRESSION 1111 EEG ABNORM 52
DEPRESSION PSYCHOTIC 1205 EFFUS PERICARD 1
DERM CONTACT 16 EFFUS PLEURAL 25
DERM EXFOL 23 EJACULAT ABNORM 281
DERM FUNG 11 ELECTROLYTE ABNORM 11
DERM LICHEN 11 ELECTROLYTE DEPLET 2
DERMATOMYOSITIS 2 EMB 5
DIABETES INSIPID 1 EMB CEREBR 3
DIABETES MELL 25 EMB LEG 1
DIARRHEA 517 EMB PULM 51
DIARRHEA BLOODY 26 EMOTION LABIL 271
DIC 2 EMPHYSEMA 4
DIGITALIS INTOX 3 ENCEPHALITIS 2
DIPLOPIA 42 ENCEPHALOP HYPERTENS 2
DISCOLOR TONGUE 22 ENCEPHALOPATHY 27
DISCOLOR TOOTH 6 ENDO DIS 4
DIZZINESS 636 ENDOCARD 3
DREAM ABNORM 437 ENDOMETR DIS 6
DRUG DEPEND 90 ENTERITIS 2
DRUG DEPEND ADDICT 35 ENZYME ABNORM 15
DRUG INTERACTION 733 EOSINOPHILIA 42
DRUG LEVEL DEC 33 EPIDERM NECRO 8
DRUG LEVEL INC 265 EPIDIDYMITIS 8
DRY EYE 22 EPISTAXIS 69
DRY MOUTH 114 ERUCTAT 12
DUODENITIS 1 ERYTHEMA MULT 44
DYSARTHRIA 25 ERYTHEMA NOD 19
DYSKINESIA 45 ESOPHAGITIS 55
DYSKINESIA TARDIVE 72 ESR INC 71
DYSMENORRHEA 16 EUPHORIA 110
DYSPAREUNIA 3 EXOPHTHALMOS 7
DYSPEPSIA 202 EXTRAPYR SYND 270
DYSPHAGIA 69 EXTRASYSTOLES 9
DYSPNEA 333 EXTRASYSTOLES BIGEM 18
DYSTONIA 151 EXTRASYSTOLES SUPVEN 8
DYSURIA 50 EXTRASYSTOLES VENT 50
EAR DIS 20 EYE DIS 55
ECCHYMOSIS 437 FACIES MASK 14
ECG ABNORM 68 FEMININE 1
ECZEMA 15 FERTIL DEC FEM 3
EDEMA 100 FERTIL DEC MALE 13
EDEMA BRAIN 10 FERTIL INC FEM 4
EDEMA FACE 174 FETAL DIS 11
EDEMA GENERAL 46 FEVER 358
EDEMA INJECT SITE 1 FEVER MALIGNANT 13
EDEMA LABIA 1 FIBRILLAT ATR 42
FIBRILLAT VENT 23 HEALING ABNORM 4
FIBRIN INC 1 HEART ARREST 96
FIBRINOGEN DEC 1 HEART BLOCK 10
FIBRINOGEN INC 1 HEART FAIL 60
FIBRO LUNG 39 HEART FAIL LEFT 4
FIBRO MESENTER 1 HEART FAIL RIGHT 44
FIBRO RETROPERIT 3 HEM 81
FIBRO TENDON 2 HEM CEREBR 12
FLATUL 80 HEM COLON 2
FLU SYND 149 HEM ESOPH 3
FLUTTER ATR 6 HEM EYE 38
FOOT DROP 7 HEM GI 66
FURUNCULOSIS 7 HEM GUM 14
GAIT ABNORM 142 HEM INTRACRAN 5
GANGRENE 2 HEM LUNG 2
GANGRENE INTEST 2 HEM MUSCLE 2
GANGRENE PERIPH 1 HEM POSTPARTUM 1
GASTRITIS 39 HEM PREGN 8
GASTRITIS HEM 1 HEM RECTAL 34
GASTROENTERITIS 15 HEM RETINAL 18
GGTP INC 63 HEM RETROPERIT 1
GI DIS 124 HEM SUBARACHNOID 9
GINGIVITIS 26 HEM UTER 19
GLAUCOMA 34 HEM VAGINAL 65
GLOBULIN DEC 1 HEMATEMESIS 15
GLOBULIN INC 2 HEMATOMA SUBDURAL 4
GLOBULIN INC GAMMA 2 HEMATURIA 84
GLOMERULITIS 4 HEMIPLEGIA 31
GLOSSITIS 53 HEMOCHROMATO 2
GLUCOCORT INC 4 HEMOLYSIS 3
GLUCOSE TOLER DEC 3 HEMOPERITON 2
GLYCOSURIA 4 HEMOPTYSIS 19
GOITER 13 HEMOSIDERO 1
GONADOTR DEC FSH 2 HEMOTHORAX 1
GONADOTR DEC LH 2 HEPATITIS 98
GONADOTR INC 1 HEPATITIS C 1
GONADOTR INC FSH 8 HEPATITIS HBSAG 2
GONADOTR INC LH 4 HEPATOMA 2
GOUT 8 HEPATOMEGALY 13
GRANULOMA 3 HEPATORENAL SYND 4
GRANULOMA SKIN 1 HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY 2
GROWTH ACCELER 2 HERNIA 12
GROWTH RETARD 2 HERPES SIMPLEX 30
GUILLAIN BARRE SYND 6 HERPES ZOSTER 24
GYNECOMASTIA 26 HICCUP 14
HAIR DIS 26 HIRSUTISM 33
HAIR DISCOLOR 9 HIV SYND 4
HALITOSIS 5 HIV TEST POS 2
HALLUCIN 482 HOSTILITY 999
HANGOVER 9 HYDROCEPHALUS 3
HDL DEC 3 HYDRONEPHROSIS 2
HEADACHE 1187 HYPER GUM 3
HEADACHE VASC 7 HYPERACUSIS 1
HYPERALGESIA 1 INFECT 101
HYPERCALCEM 9 INFECT BACT 1
HYPERCHLORHYDRIA 2 INFECT SUPER 1
HYPERCHOLESTEREM 93 INFECT URIN TRACT 53
HYPERESTHESIA 17 INFECT VIRAL 2
HYPERGLYCEM 88 INJECT SITE REACT 1
HYPERKALEM 13 INJURY ACCID 307
HYPERKINESIA 202 INJURY INTENT 502
HYPERLIPEM 46 INSOMNIA 1334
HYPERNATREM 7 INTEST LARGE PER 2
HYPERPLASIA ENDOMETR 5 INTEST PER 1
HYPERTENS 407 INTRACRAN HYPERTENS 11
HYPERTENS PULM 5 IRITIS 7
HYPERTHYR 42 ISCHEMIA CEREBR 20
HYPERTONIA 268 ISCHEMIA MYOCARD 12
HYPERTROPHY 1 JAUNDICE 56
HYPERTROPHY SKIN 4 JAUNDICE CHOLESTAT 29
HYPERURICEM 6 JAUNDICE NEONAT 1
HYPERVENTIL 43 JOINT DIS 75
HYPESTHESIA 50 KERATITIS 5
HYPOCALCEM 9 KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS 7
HYPOCHLOREM 7 KETOSIS 9
HYPOCHOLESTEREM 4 KIDNEY CALCULUS 35
HYPOGLYCEM 145 KIDNEY FAIL 51
HYPOGLYCEM REACT 11 KIDNEY FAIL ACUTE 16
HYPOKALEM 73 KIDNEY FUNC ABNORM 14
HYPOKINESIA 40 KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC 1
HYPOMAGNESEM 1 KIDNEY TUBUL DIS 1
HYPOMENORRHEA 6 LAB TEST ABNORM 93
HYPONATREM 460 LAB TEST INTERFER 31
HYPOPROTEINEM 5 LABOR ABNORM 22
HYPOTENS 146 LACRIMATION DIS 18
HYPOTENS POST 84 LACTATION DEC 1
HYPOTHERMIA 18 LACTATION FEM 269
HYPOTHYR 94 LACTATION MALE 3
HYPOTONIA 10 LARYNGISMUS 36
HYPOVENTIL 10 LARYNGITIS 10
HYPOVOLEM 1 LDH INC 50
HYPOXIA 25 LE SYND 70
HYSTERIA 28 LE TEST ABNORM 4
ILEITIS 6 LEUKEMIA 6
ILEUS 5 LEUKEMIA ACUTE 5
IMMUNE SYSTEM DIS 5 LEUKEMIA ACUTE LYMPH 2
IMMUNOGLOBUL INC 2 LEUKEMIA ACUTE MYELO 1
IMPACT FECAL 1 LEUKOCYTOSIS 81
IMPOTENCE 243 LEUKODERMA 8
INCONTIN FECAL 29 LEUKOPENIA 191
INCONTIN URIN 122 LEUKOPLAKIA ORAL 2
INCREASED EFFECT 29 LEUKORRHEA 9
INFARCT CEREBR 14 LIBIDO DEC 677
INFARCT MYOCARD 122 LIBIDO INC 102
INFARCT PULM 1 LIPASE INC 1
LIPODYSTROPHY 1 MYOPATHY 20
LIVER CIRRHO 14 MYOSITIS 28
LIVER DAMAGE 35 NAIL DIS 22
LIVER FAIL 26 NASAL SEPTUM DIS 1
LIVER FATTY 20 NAUSEA 971
LIVER FUNC ABNORM 389 NAUSEA VOMIT 248
LIVER TENDER 4 NAUSEA VOMIT DIAR 40
LUNG DIS 41 NECK RIGID 39
LUNG FUNC DEC 4 NECRO 2
LYMPHADENO 79 NECRO BONE 13
LYMPHEDEMA 1 NECRO INTEST 4
LYMPHOCYTOSIS 8 NECRO KIDNEY PAPILL 1
LYMPHOMA LIKE REACT 15 NECRO KIDNEY TUBUL 2
MALABSORP SYND 1 NECRO LIVER 8
MALAISE 167 NECRO SKIN 2
MANIC DEPRESS REACT 30 NEOPL 18
MANIC REACT 553 NEOPL BLADDER 5
MARROW DEPRESS 17 NEOPL BREAST 11
MASTITIS 3 NEOPL CNS 7
MED ERROR 24 NEOPL LARYNX 1
MEGACOLON 1 NEOPL SKIN 8
MEGAKARYO DEC 1 NEOPL THYR 1
MEGAKARYO INC 1 NEOPL UTER 1
MELANOMA SKIN 4 NEPHRITIS 7
MELANOSIS 3 NEPHROSCLEROSIS 1
MELENA 23 NEPHROSIS 8
MENINGISM 2 NERVOUSNESS 1193
MENINGITIS 5 NEURALGIA 19
MENOPAUSE 15 NEURITIS 5
MENORRHAGIA 69 NEURITIS OPTIC 26
MENS DIS 110 NEURITIS PERIPH 31
MENTAL RETARD 4 NEURITIS RETROBULBAR 1
METHEMOGLOBIN 1 NEUROLEPTIC MALSYND 54
METRORRHAGIA 111 NEUROPATHY 59
MIGRAINE 108 NEUROSIS 158
MIOSIS 1 NO DRUG EFFECT 743
MONILIA 4 NOCTURIA 10
MONILIA GI 2 NODULE SKIN 8
MONILIA ORAL 6 NODULE SUBCUTAN 15
MONILIA SKIN 1 NPN INC 4
MONILIA VAGINA 3 NYSTAGMUS 24
MONOCYTOSIS 2 OBESITY 3
MONOPLEGIA 1 OBSTRUCT INTEST 15
MOVEMENT DIS 59 OCCLUS 4
MUCOUS MEM DIS 6 OCCLUS CAROTID 2
MYALGIA 266 OCCLUS CORONARY 8
MYASTHENIA 72 OCCLUS MESENTER 2
MYDRIASIS 66 OCCLUS MESENTER ART 1
MYELOFIBROSIS 2 OCCLUS RETINAL ART 1
MYELOMA 1 OCULOGYRIC CRISIS 24
MYELOPROLIF DIS 1 OLIGURIA 16
MYOCARDITIS 2 OPISTHOTONOS 6
MYOCLONUS 163 ORCHITIS 2
OSTEOMYELITIS 2 PHARYNGITIS 131
OSTEOPOROSIS 11 PHLEB 11
OSTEOPOROSIS FRACT 2 PHOSPHATASE ALK INC 84
OTITIS EXT 1 PHOTOPHOBIA 31
OTITIS MED 7 PHOTOSENSITIVITY 126
OVAR DIS 30 PIT ACTIV DEC 4
OVERDOSE 768 PIT ACTIV INC 7
OVERDOSE ACCID 87 PLACENTA DIS 7
OVERDOSE INTENT 652 PLAT ABNORM 14
OVULAT FAIL 1 PLAT ADHESIVE DEC 1
PAIN 345 PLEURAL DIS 5
PAIN ABDO 394 PNEUMONIA 150
PAIN BACK 98 PNEUMONIA ASPIR 15
PAIN BIL 2 PNEUMONIA EOSINOPHIL 7
PAIN BONE 33 PNEUMONIA INTERSTIT 18
PAIN BREAST 70 PNEUMOTHORAX 3
PAIN CHEST 247 POLYARTERITIS NODOSA 2
PAIN CHEST SUBSTERN 7 POLYCYTHEMIA 6
PAIN EAR 20 POLYNEURITIS 3
PAIN EYE 61 POLYURIA 21
PAIN INJECT SITE 1 PORPHYRIA 9
PAIN KIDNEY 3 PR PROLONGED 3
PAIN NECK 47 PREGN DIS 12
PAIN PELVIC 19 PREGN MULT 3
PAIN URETHRA 10 PREGN TEST FALSE POS 3
PALLOR 13 PREGN TOXEMIA 2
PALPITAT 212 PREGN UNINTEND 1021
PANCREAS DIS 3 PRIAPISM 45
PANCREATITIS 59 PROCTITIS 1
PANCYTOPENIA 22 PROCTITIS ULCER 1
PAP SMEAR SUSP 3 PROLACTIN INC 129
PAPILLEDEMA 8 PROSTAT DIS 23
PARALYSIS 23 PROTHROMBIN DEC 77
PARALYSIS EXTRAOCUL 5 PROTHROMBIN INC 14
PARALYSIS FACIAL 26 PRURITUS 686
PARALYSIS FLACCID 2 PSA INC 1
PARALYSIS SPASTIC 3 PSORIASIS 24
PARALYSIS VOCAL CORD 4 PSYCHOSIS 269
PARANOID REACT 192 PTOSIS 11
PARAPLEGIA 1 PUPIL DIS 5
PARATHYR DIS 2 PURPURA 50
PARESTH CIRCUMORAL 27 PURPURA THROMBOPEN 35
PARESTHESIA 430 PURPURA THROMBOPEN T 3
PAROSMIA 20 PURPURA VASC 4
PAROTID ENLARGE 7 PYELONEPHRITIS 5
PENIS DIS 25 PYURIA 3
PEPTIC ULCER SYND 3 QT PROLONGED 40
PERICARDITIS 4 RASH 1753
PERINATAL DIS 8 RASH LE 6
PERIOST DIS 1 RASH MAC PAP 185
PERITONITIS 5 RASH PETECH 21
PERSON DIS 574 RASH PURPUR 19
PETECHIA 33 RASH PUST 16
RASH VESIC BULL 86 SPUTUM INC 3
RBC ABNORM 15 ST DEPRESSED 5
RE BLOCK 1 ST ELEVATED 2
RE HYPERPLASIA 1 STENO AORTIC 1
REACT AGGRAV 868 STENO BLADDER 3
REACT UNEVAL 120 STENO PYLOR 3
RECTAL DIS 14 STEVENS JOHNSONSYND 13
REFLEXES DEC 7 STILLBIRTH 11
REFLEXES INC 24 STOMACH ATONY 1
REFRACT DIS 9 STOMACH DILAT 1
RESPIRAT DIS 72 STOMATITIS 52
RESPIRAT DISTRES SYN 2 STOMATITIS APHTH 6
RETINAL DEGENERAT 9 STOMATITIS ULCER 6
RETINAL DETACH 2 STOOL ABNORM 9
RETINAL DIS 10 STRABISMUS 2
RETINAL PIGMENT 1 STRIDOR 6
RETINAL VASC DIS 4 STUPOR 137
RHABDO 1 SUDDEN DEATH 38
RHINITIS 75 SUICIDE ATTEMPT 2246
SALICYLISM 1 SWEAT 429
SALIV GLAND ENLARGE 12 SWEAT DEC 1
SALIVA INC 27 SYNCOPE 335
SALPINGITIS 5 SYNOVITIS 2
SARCOIDOSIS 3 SYPH TEST FALSE POS 1
SCHIZOPHRENIC REACT 20 T INVERTED 8
SCLERITIS 3 TACHYCARDIA 333
SCLERODERMA 3 TACHYCARDIA SUPVENT 29
SCLEROSIS MULT 18 TACHYCARDIA VENT 65
SCREAMING SYND 7 TASTE LOSS 23
SEBORRHEA 7 TASTE PERVERS 71
SEPSIS 23 TENDON DIS 12
SERUM IRON INC 4 TENDON RUPT 2
SERUM SICK 80 TENESMUS 3
SEX FUNC ABNORM 25 TENOSYNOVITIS 70
SEX MAT ACCEL 2 TESTIS DIS 17
SGOT INC 168 TETANY 6
SGPT INC 155 THINKING ABNORM 652
SHOCK 30 THIRST 25
SINUSITIS 28 THROM 12
SKIN DIS 25 THROM CAROTID 1
SKIN DISCOLOR 69 THROM CEREBR 3
SKIN DRY 29 THROM CEREBR VEN 1
SKIN STRIAE 2 THROM CORONARY 2
SLEEP DIS 83 THROM PULM 1
SOMNOLENCE 1029 THROM RETINAL VEIN 3
SPASM GENERAL 9 THROMBOCYTHEM 26
SPEECH DIS 189 THROMBOCYTOPENIA 145
SPERM ARREST 1 THROMBOPHLEB 22
SPLEEN DIS 1 THROMBOPHLEB DEEP 12
SPLEEN RUPT 3 THROMBOPLASTIN DEC 13
SPLENOMEGALY 7 THYR DIS 28
THYROIDITIS 8 URIN RETENT 162
TINNITUS 220 URIN TRACT DIS 14
TOLER DEC 3 URIN URGENCY 23
TOLER INC 166 URTICARIA 595
TONGUE DIS 15 UTER ATONY 1
TOOTH CARIES 1 UTER DIS 7
TOOTH DIS 92 UTER ENLARGE 2
TORSADES DE POINTES 8 UTER FIBROID DEGEN 1
TORTICOLLIS 21 UTER FIBROID ENLARGE 8
TRANSPOS GREAT VESS 1 UTER RUPT 2
TREMOR 798 UTER SPASM 2
TRISMUS 76 VAGINITIS 38
TWITCH 323 VASC DIS 5
UG DIS 3 VASC DIS PERIPH 25
ULCER CORNEAL 1 VASCULITIS 62
ULCER DUODEN 6 VASCULITIS KIDNEY 2
ULCER DUODEN HEM 7 VASODILAT 230
ULCER DUODEN PER 2 VEIN VARICOSE 6
ULCER ESOPH 5 VERTIGO 76
ULCER INTEST 1 VESTIBUL DIS 9
ULCER MOUTH 46 VISION ABNORM 201
ULCER PEPTIC 8 VISUAL FIELD DEFECT 3
ULCER PEPTIC HEM 5 VITREOUS DIS 9
ULCER PEPTIC REACT 2 VOICE ALTERAT 26
ULCER SKIN 20 VOMIT 180
ULCER STOMACH 12 VULVOVAGINAL DIS 5
ULCER STOMACH HEM 8 VULVOVAGINITIS 2
ULCER STOMACH PER 1 WATER INTOX 2
UNEXPECTED BENEFIT 244 WBC ABNORM 9
UREMIA 2 WEIGHT DEC 507
URETHRITIS 8 WEIGHT INC 533
URICACIDUR 1 WITHDRAW SYND 329
URIN ABNORM 26 YAWN 71
URIN FREQUENCY 110
URIN IMPAIRED 23
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TOTAL INCIDENCES: 64992
TOTAL TERMS: 902 (from 35,230 cases)
* WARNING!! The incidence counts do NOT represent ADR (Adverse Reaction Reports) counts. Each ADR filed with the FDA may have have from 1 to 5 reaction terms recorded per report/case.
Food & Drug Administration, Freedom of Information Staff (HFI-35),
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,MD 20857 Telephone (301) 443-6310


Quite a list hmm?  Paula :)

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please see my post  the other antidepressant thread.  Thyroid is the most misdiagnosed (ignored) issue in our culture today.  Many people have gotten off prozac etc when they get their thyroid supplimented.  Check the other thread for websites and discussion groups. Good luck!
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GSK - your corruption, duplicity and total lack of concern for human life is appalling. Worse than that of the Tobacco Company.  Worse than that of illegal Drug Dealers.  Worse than Alcohol manufacturers.  BECAUSE YOU maintain that your "mission is improving the quality of human life", here - on your website:
http://www.gsk.com
between the financial adverts on your page.

You make it difficult, almost impossible, for honest experts to speak out against you.  You use your money and dishonesty to corrupt wherever you can what were once decent human beings who took the Hippocratic Oath.  You "fund" and "treat" (or should I say Freebie and Bribe?) once ethical people.  You humiliate those who try to bring out the truth.  SHAME ON YOU.  What an awful reflection you give of our species.  Greedy, power-seeking, profit-searching, self interested, calculating people who will go to any lengths, walk over vulnerable children and adults, showing a total contempt for the quality of, or existence of, life.  And for what?  

FOR MONEY.  FOR POWER. FOR PERSONAL GAIN.

Here are just two of your innocent victims.
A little girl - died aged 12:
http://paxilsupport.homestead.com/kara.html

A little boy - died aged 11:
http://paxilsupport.homestead.com/othervictims.html

And there are, as you know, many many more.
How DARE you do this to human beings?
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CALIFORNIAN LAWSUIT re PAXIL can be found here:  

http://www.breggin.com/paxilcomplaint.html

and here are some extracts from it:

22.The "patient years" standard is a sham by anyone's common sense.It works like this.Assume 366 patients are selected at random to test Paxil.Three hundred and sixty five (365) patients take Paxil and suffer horribly the first day--immediately quitting the test.These patients are called, not surprisingly, "losers."The 366th patient, however, tolerates Paxil quite well, and even improves on the drug, staying in one or more trials for a full year.This patient is a "winner" by SKB standards.Like a champion race horse, this "winner" is entered in all the sweepstake trials for Paxil--and these trials are intentionally programmed to be long.Knowing they have a champion race horse, SKB racks up "points."By anyone's common sense standards, 365 failures out of 366 attempts would render the drug a dismal failure.But not so under "patient years."Under patient years, the one Paxil patient who tolerated the drug for one year counts the same as the 365 patients who couldn't tolerate the drug and dropped out the first day.The "score" in this example is "one patient year" for each side.Not surprisingly, the mathematicians who go along with this voodoo math are subordinate to the physicians and clinicians in the corporate chain of command, and the physicians at the top of the FDA chain of command.

23.In Paxil's clinical trials, SKB ultimately achieved positive results--as it were--because of emphasis on "subjective" testing data.Objective data is very scientific.Subjective data is less scientific.The latter requires more stringent controls to be applied scientifically.Subjective data is subject to the biases, opinions, and prejudices of the person(s) collecting the data.SKB
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List of clinical studies (summaries of 55 studies and results of antidepressants) can be found here:


http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/message?forumid=182310&messageid=1017830140

For more information on any of these, further searching will need to be done (using the title of the researhers/authors above each summary as a start?).  The summaries do give a fairly short but comprehensive list of the results.

Peagee :)
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Hello!  

One of my friends just directed me to this site.  Please read what 7,500 other folks have to say about Prozac:

http://www.PetitonOnline.com/lilpro

If you want to join a group who is looking for the truth about all of these drugs in the SSRI class (Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft,  Luvox, Celexa) please go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SSRI-Crusaders

We are a small group that is concerned that the whole truth about these drugs is not being given to the public.

Love to all,
Saving Grace
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Prozac is the easiest SSRI to withdraw from because it has such a long half-life that it slowly leaves your body.  Effexor is the hardest since it has the shortest half-life and one who is trying to taper will go in and out of withdrawal due to this.  Paxil is also very difficult to taper and withdraw from... Please see the Class Action Lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline which address this lack of disclosure:

August 24, 2001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    

Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo
12100 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 950
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Contact: Robin McCall, Media Relations
Day: (800) 827-0087 or (310) 207-3233
Night: (818) 558-5964
Email: ***@****

Web: www.baumhedlundlaw.com

Victims File Lawsuit over Severe Withdrawal Reactions from the
Antidepressant, Paxil - First Class Action of its Kind Against an
Antidepressant Maker

Los Angeles, August 24, 2001 - - 35 people who have suffered from severe
withdrawal reactions as a result of taking the antidepressant Paxil, filed a
class action complaint today in California Superior Court, LA County,
against Glaxo Smithkline Corporation (GSK), formerly known as SmithKline
Beecham. This group represents thousands of Paxil users who have allegedly
suffered from withdrawal reactions and dependency/withdrawal syndrome. They
come from all walks of life (e.g., Lt. Col in the U.S. Air Force; former
star athlete; web-designer; children; bank fraud investigator and many more)
and reside throughout the United States. Each has experienced similar
withdrawal reactions and problems such as:

jolting electric "zaps," dizziness, light-headedness, vertigo,
in-coordination, gait disturbances, sweating, extreme nausea, vomiting, high
fever, abdominal discomfort, flu symptoms, anorexia, diarrhea, agitation,
tremulousness, irritability, aggression, sleep disturbance, nightmares,
tremor, confusion, memory and concentration difficulties, lethargy, malaise,
weakness, fatigue, paraesthesias, ataxia, and/or myalgia.

Paxil was introduced into the U.S. market on December 29, 1992, and is a
well known antidepressant medication in the same class as Zoloft and Prozac
(selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or "SSRI's"). Paxil is approved for
marketing in the United States for conditions such as depression, obsessive
compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and "social anxiety disorder."

Complaint Allegations: 1) The complaint alleges Paxil can cause some people
who take it to experience serious and unexpected withdrawal reactions.
Neither the patients nor the physicians expect these withdrawal reactions
because, according to the complaint, the manufacturer has deliberately
failed to warn of their potential occurrence. Both physician and patient
unwittingly commit to Paxil without knowing the drug's addictive traits.
None of the named plaintiffs were ever informed before starting Paxil that
it was addictive, induced dependency, or created withdrawal reactions when
dosage was reduced or terminated.

2) Paxil creates both physical and psychological dependency because GSK has
suppressed the information about the severe withdrawal reactions of its
drug, many patients and their physicians are fooled into thinking that the
withdrawal reactions are caused by another condition (such as relapse), thus
prompting further incorrect and unnecessary medical treatment, including
increased dosages of Paxil.

3) GSK has known for years the distinct characteristics of Paxil which make
it prone to cause withdrawal reactions when discontinued. While the medical
community has acknowledged the potential for all SSRI's to cause
dependency/withdrawal syndrome, Paxil is, by far, the worst. According to
World Health Organization ("WHO") data obtained by the plaintiff class
members, Paxil has the highest incidence rate of withdrawal adverse
experiences of any antidepressant drug in the world. "Even despite our
clients' extreme difficulties caused by this drug, some remain on Paxil
today because they are "hooked" and fear they cannot get off the drug," says
attorney Mary Schiavo.

The complaint charges include fraud and deceit, negligence, strict
liability, breach of warranty and implied warranty which can be seen on the
complaint.

The lawsuit was filed by Karen Barth (in association with Mary Schiavo) of
Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo in Los Angeles and Donald Farber
of San Rafael, California.

The attorneys have stated, "The scariest part about this is that there are
people out there trying to get off this drug who are experiencing these
horrible withdrawal reactions. They think its because of something wrong
with them, when it's really the Paxil - - and then they take even more and
further exacerbate the problem!"

Fact Sheet is available on the web along with the complaint at
www.baumhedlundlaw.com.


DiscloseTheTruth
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I have stopped taking 40 mg of Prozac cold turkey and I had no side effects, and I have done that several times over the years.  When I stopped taking Effexor, the side effects felt terrible.  Even tapering it down I still felt the side effects although to a lesser degree.
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Paxil is a clone of Prozac but with a shorter half-life.  Prozac leaves the body more slowly than Paxil.  Perhaps this site (social audit site) would help to explain it, its one of many sites but at a quick guess it will probably give you a lead to answering your question fairly quickly :)

http://www.socialaudit.org.uk/4200JOGL.htm#Prozac%20Backlash

There's tons of info on the net (and I mean professional experts' information - the internet harbours both good and bad sites).

There are support boards and info sites specifically with regard to SSRIs generally, some to Prozac, some to Paxil etc.  

Peagee
Now going offline :)

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Paxil is shorter acting and going cold turkey is almost impossible, whereas prozac is longer lasting, so stopping the oral medication means that you still have a blood level for longer and that gradually diminishes.
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