Podcast - What your GP doesn’t tell you

[[Ka...]]

Sharing podcast. Intro here from Liz Tucker (London) via X

In my latest podcast, Dr @markhoro discusses how to safely deprescribe from a range of pyschiatric drugs and in this clip explains how doctors have frequently misinterpreted withdrawal effects as a patient's disease returning

full podcast 👇
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/what-your-gp-doesnt-tell-you/id1640338805?i=1000644331655

Edited February 9 by [Ka...]

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6 hours ago, [[K...] said:

Sharing podcast. Intro here from Liz Tucker (London) via X

In my latest podcast, Dr @markhoro discusses how to safely deprescribe from a range of pyschiatric drugs and in this clip explains how doctors have frequently misinterpreted withdrawal effects as a patient's disease returning

full podcast 👇
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/what-your-gp-doesnt-tell-you/id1640338805?i=1000644331655

Thank you for sharing. Very interesting!)

[[Ka...]]

There is so much in this informative 1hr episode. Particularly the explanations about low dose. 

[[Re...]]

@[Ka...]Thank you for this! Very useful!! 😊

Each time I listen to/read information about psychiatric drugs and their (protracted) withdrawal, I go through 2-3 stages of shock :

-" Gosh and others have no idea about this..." 

-" Wait a minute! You are still in this, this is your reality... This is you now" 

- " But what do I do..." 

I just need to remind myself each time that the path is positive and it is an upwards process... It is 

 

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[[WU...]]

It is a shame there is no research about why some people recover relatively quickly and others do not.  Somebody somewhere must have correlated this information or noticed something significant in all these years?

[[Re...]]

@[WU...] This is so complicated... The syndrome we have is mostly not really recognized. Secondly, it would have to be a years long research, costing tremendous amount of money, but, to do that, someone would have to recognize the condition. And, with this, comes all the responsibility of marketing the drug at all. Extreme financial liabilities. (That's the reason I am surprised the patient leaflet mentions Protracted Withdrawal in the US at all...).

So, we have to rely on experienced people / the rare experienced doctors in the field. But mainly peer support, their observations. 

Even with books like the very important one mentioned above, it will take many many years for the medical profession and perspectives to change, recognize there is a problem and do research. And, as the condition is rare, not really enough people, different regulations in countries, who have taken different medications, often poli-drugged, so extremely heterogeneous group... Hard to have a grasp on it, really. 

 

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[[kn...]]

Great recommendation; great podcast.  I've taken numerous SSRI's through the years.  Rather than coming off them, I've switched one for another.  My Dr. wanted me to stop Venlafaxine a few years ago.  I was able to carve off 75mg, but it was a killer.  I put a halt to that and said that I would elect to stay on the med at a lower dosage, but WD was not going to happen.  The BZ are a whole different story.  I started out @ 60mg diazepam and after 2.5 years,  I'm  currently @4.  Don't know if or when this is going to end, but at this point, I'm not really in any kind of hurry.