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Tapering anti-depressants too fast cause problems

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News flash.....major study finds doctors are not listening to patients about drug withdrawal symptoms and too fast tapering, sound familiar?

nytimes.com/2019/03/05/heal...

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Last paragraph is interesting - just replace the noun “ psychiatrists” with “ doctors in general”.

Think that describes the tapering debacles we read about on here more times than we should.

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webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/fea...

just for a start. But google "doctors don't listen to patients" and see how many different links turn up.

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Blearyeyed in reply to PMRpro

It's frightening , but also scary how little it surprises me now.

Nobody really understands until they get their own invisible illness how sick it makes you feel trying to get better .

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Soraya_PMR

Amazing that it finally takes 2 medics who have been there, done that, worn the T-shirt, to contradict the ‘theory of withdrawal’. No matter that hundreds of thousands have probably been singing from this same hymn sheet for years.

All too bl🙄dy familiar!

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PMRproAmbassador in reply to Soraya_PMR

Isn't it!

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Blearyeyed

There preaching to the choir sister , as the saying goes.

Many of us could say , been there , done that , have at least two t-shirts.

Is doctors not listening and still doing what they feel like really still a big shocker these days?

Well not for any of us living with GCA/ PMR and trying to cope with the " New Normal"

😋😁😁 Thanks for the article x

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bunnymom

I love that the researchers visited online forums where patients were helping each other. When it works it works. 😊

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Blearyeyed in reply to bunnymom

Yes , thank goodness for informed patients on online forums because informed doctors are hard to find.

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