FDA issues suicide caution for antidepressants

[Kain99]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Patients on some popular antidepressants should be closely monitored for warning signs of suicide, the government warned Monday in asking the makers of 10 drugs to add the caution to their labels.

The drugs of concern are all newer-generation antidepressants: Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor, Celexa, Remeron, Lexapro, Luvox, Serzone and Wellbutrin. Most are known to affect the brain chemical serotonin.

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[crabcake]

I believe it! I took Zyban (which is just the "quit smoking" name for Wellbutrin so the HMOs don't have to fork over the $$$ for it ) and I've never been so bummed in my life!

 

[Nanny Pam]

The way I see it is .... just menopause along can make you Looney tunes, so why not combat the loss of the hormones with Prozac?? It sure does help to balance things out.
My Doc told me that the OBGYN's are now prescribing Prozac for PMS with great results.

 

[SuperGrover]

WOWZERS!

 

[Tonio]

From my limited knowledge of these drugs, the only reason they would be connected with suicide is that they lower the inhibitions in people who already have suicidal thoughts. Doesn't alcohol have the same effect?

 

[Nanny Pam]

Originally posted by crabcake
I believe it! I took Zyban (which is just the "quit smoking" name for Wellbutrin so the HMOs don't have to fork over the $$$ for it ) and I've never been so bummed in my life!

Bummed???
You were 'mellowed out' not bummed.

 

[crabcake]

Originally posted by Nanny Pam
Bummed???
You were 'mellowed out' not bummed.

no, it really bummed me ... I'd bawl at the drop of a dime. Had to get off that stuff ... so, I still smoke!

 

[Pete]

BUMP for Dems

 

[Kain99]

Have the rest of you noticed how close to unanimously all the high school shooters, random killers, baby-drowners, first- and second-grade knife murderers, first-time committers of violence and unlikely suicides were on some kind of "anti-depressant" at the time of their dark deed?

# Sam Manzie, 15, attacked, raped and strangled to death an 11-year-old boy selling items door to door for the PTA. He was on Paxil.

# Kip Kinkel, 14, killed his parents and went on a shooting rampage at his Springfield, Ore., high school. He was taking Ritalin and Prozac.

# Jeremy Strohmeyer raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl one week after he started taking Dexedrine.

# Columbine High School's Eric Harris was taking Luvox.

# T.J. Solomon, 15, who attended Heritage High School in Conyers, Ga., was taking Ritalin when he opened fire on his classmates, wounding six.

# The crime America may never recover from, the studied and deliberate drowning of all five of her children by a mother in Texas, was performed under the influence of "anti-depressants."

# So was the incredible stabbing murder of eight Japanese children in the first and second grades by a man on anti-depressants.

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[willie]

Originally posted by Barbra
I've been on Wellbutrin since 1997. I'm no more depressed or suicidal or whatever than I was pre-Wellbutrin.

This sounds as though your condition is the same, why do you take it?