Given we seem to be plied with antidepressants when many of us believe we are simply under medicated or need some T3, it’s a shock to discover only 33 studies of kicking the things have been undertaken and the U.K. has very high rates of use with 17% of adults taking them in 2017/2018 in England 😱
Paper is here:
cochrane.org/CD013495/DEPRE...
The photo is of article about it from from today’s Metro news
Gosh 17% seems very high.
In theory, the issues of getting off them should have been investigated before they were approved, and in regular use.
Just for one ludicrous example, imagine if they took the same approach with anaesthetics. Safe. Effective. Patients never have any pain.
Oh dear - we have a hospital full of patients who are perfectly well but have to be unconscious on anaesthetic forever because we can't work out how to stop giving them.
I saw something yesterday about GP's seeing 10% of the population over the past year - and I thought "That's a lot". Maybe if they stopped making anti-depressants the 'go to' it would reduce their work load.
Having said that, I do fully appreciate that they can be beneficial.
Quite so and I am sure they do really help some people. I had awful depression and was prescribed some. I can only describe the effect of taking the first tablet as “we have blast off!” I could not believe it was legal to prescribe them, I really was sky high on them. I realised how bad my depression was. But they became less efficacious over time (probably a good thing I was off my face on them). I was diagnosed with autoimmune atropic thyroiditis decades later, having tested a series of different antidepressants along the way. It was only when I eventually tried NDT that the depression simply evaporated completely. I can only think it was low T3 induced, but who knows.
Oddly as long as I titrated down I had no problem stopping “rocket trip to the stars” Prozac and the other ones I took (none of the others were quite as spacey as Prozac). Mind you I never tried just going cold Turkey it might have been ok but with powerful stuff like that it makes sense to taper it down to stop. I presume as I’m no longer ever depressed they would have no effect whatsoever now.
I wonder how many doctors checked their patients thyroid hormones before prescribing anti'depressants? Do they check - at the very least FT3 and FT4. I doubt it.
Especially those who haven't yet been diagnosed with hypothyroidism but are symptomatic but with few GPs knowing little about clinical symptoms might just prescribe Anti-depressants.
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