16. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Sep 08, 2007, 4:10 am PDT

how about a very specific list of these interactions ? thanks

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17. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Sep 19, 2007, 4:22 pm PDT

I believe I had this happen to me. I was taking Effexor and about two months ago, I had sweating, horrible weakness, nausea, and I would pass out in my bed and convulse, my heart would beat rappidly... I quit taking that medicine because I believed it was poisoning me. I went to the ER two days in a row and the doctors couldn't help, they just told me it was my fibromyalgia and that I had an infection. I felt like I was dying. I hope a law is passed to protect people like me who are on disability from being used as guinee pigs and the scientific community just sits back and waits for the outcome. How many of us have to get sick or die before someone requires the medical community to protect us. Doctors are supposed to help us heal not hold our hands as we go to the grave.

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18. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Oct 02, 2007, 2:11 am PDT

I too have fibromyalgia and neuropathy and clinical depression. Am (WAS as of now) on Effexor XR. With cronic pain also on other meds. I only have 1 dr. and 1 pharmacy for all meds. I thought I was being careful. My dr. knew every medication that I took. Found out today that the combination of med have poisoned me (so to speak). I now have Serotonin Syndrom. Because it is caused by meds, it is fully fixable (unlike soooooo many other problems with my 33 year old body (that feels like 99yrs.) I have found a great website for drug interactions. It is - drugs.com - How simple huh!! Just go there and you can input a list of all meds you are on and it will give you any and all interactions, or you can do individual med searches. It also gives food interactions. I hope this helps anyone, someone, (hopefully me) before it is too late. It seems that there is more to our "wonderful" anti-depressant medications are most dr. are telling. (Or possibly knowing?) Out of my 8 meds, I had 5 MAJOR DRUG INTERACTION and 10 MODERATE DRUG INTERACTIONS. The sad thing is, I have been to the ER numerous times ( I quit counting after 25) and I can now account a pretty big chunk of those times that I was told to just go home (because fibromyalgia is the cause of everything to my SMALL TOWN DR.S) to being actual drug interaction visits. The thing that scares me to death is that been on the SAME MEDS for some time now and the longer that my specific interactions continues the deadlier they get!!! If I hadn't caught this today, would the Medical Examiner have caught it when I went to the morgue????????????!!!!!!!!!!!

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19. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Nov 27, 2007, 11:39 pm PST

RE: Serotonin Syndrome I was in the hospital for 4 days and then in a psych unit for another 5 where they put me back on meds. As far as I can tell these meds have the same risk. I don't know what to do. I have almost 9 short term memory still and feel restless and extremely depressed. I don't feel like myself at all. It is as if the S Syndrome forced a physical and mental breakdown. Can you help?

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20. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Sep 08, 2008, 9:27 pm PDT

I went through this deal I would tense up contantly on the right side of my body I was taking lower tab and suboxone 8 mg it would make me go crazy my body would tense up so bad it drove me me nuts till I relized something was wrong I was lucky and got off of it.

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21. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Sep 08, 2008, 9:32 pm PDT

rntime10 rntime10 I read what you wrote I feel what you feel ok I have been there and done that would you like to talk to me I am better now and will be from now on I really feel for you so will you talk to me I will be your friend hun ok I know you are hurt and crushed and dont know what to do anymore and you think about death somethimes but get that out of your head now, dont ever think like that ok my e-mail is johnny_patton@yahoo.com or jpatton@txi.com or johnny11_patton@hotmail.com my most ones checked is johnny_patton and my txi e-mail.

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22. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Feb 06, 2009, 8:48 am PST

I am going to stop my Cymbalta. I know the side effects are horrible but I do not want to be on a medicine that is so hard to stop taking because of the side effects!! I feel like I need to go to rehab to get off of it!! Any Suggestions??

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23. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, May 17, 2009, 1:00 am PDT

help me please..I almost died in Sept of last year from Seretonin Syndrome...I was on the meds for 4 and half weeks and was almost a vegatable when it was discovered....and now I have brain damage that all the Dr.s are giving up on me....I am 40 and a mother of two.....please help me know what to do...I am now showing signs of parkinsons and have tingling in my head and severe jerks all the time....Is this my life??? Please please help me!!!!!!!!!! Christie Schmalzel 707 725-6773

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