Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Post-medication terror

This is what you call it when you find out that a drug that you were on for more than six months, most of that at a 60mg dose has just been found to be potentially fatal at doses above 40mg. Yikes! Back in the first half of 2008, I was on celexa, an SSRI antidepressant. Even at the 60mg dose, it had little to no effect on me. Reading that headline today about some patients developing a fatal arrhythmia made me choke slightly. I hope that the drug world starts testing things better...yes, there are risks to everything...but that one sounds pretty serious.

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