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> That said, it's strange that the author's doctors didn't notice this earlier. A number of medical professionals are shockingly unfamiliar with potential side
by fwip 6y ago
> That said, it's strange that the author's doctors didn't notice this earlier.
A number of medical professionals are shockingly unfamiliar with potential side effects of the drugs they prescribe.
My partner was prescribed Zoloft. The prescribing psychiatrist simply did not believe my partner when they told him that they were experiencing a lot of jaw-clenching / teeth grinding. He insisted it must be unrelated to the medication. There are studies going back at least 20 years documenting this side effect with SSRIs, affecting something like 1 in 6 patients.
- kar5pt 6y agoOn top of that a lot of them are really unfamiliar with the withdrawal affects of ssri's. When I was tapering off of Paxil my psychiatrist seemed to think that withdrawals were just going to be a couple weeks of mild anxiety. In reality, each taper down took me over 3 months to get back to normal.