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Originally Posted by fanfaire
Holy cow! If the correlation is true, it is certainly disturbing.
I was placed on an SSRI ten years ago and developed chronic insomnia and uncontrollable muscle twitching that are with me to this day. Guess what I was given to make me sleep while I was on the SSRI? A tricyclic! By the time I got completely off both meds in 2000, I was flopping around like a marionette without strings.
My neuropathy started in 1998. It had never occurred to me that there might be a connection between that and the meds, although I have certainly had enough ill effects from the meds to consider that a possibility.
If anyone has any more info on this subject, please post it.
fanfaire
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I was on Celexa a number of years ago. I made the connection to the RLS then. I'd had bouts of RLS off and on in the past but nothing like happened on the Celexa. I was on Effexor XR for a little over 3 years. The PN started during the Celexa along with the RLS. The RLS was far worse than the PN for me on Celexa. The Effexor, the PN was *much* worse and the RLS was there also but not as badly as it was on the Celexa. I've been off of Effexor for going on maybe 6 months? I'd have to look back through my posts here to pinpoint a time frame but that feels about right. My PN seems, slowly -ever so slowly - to be getting better. I *know* there's a correlation to the SSRI's and SSNRI's there! What I'm waiting to find out is if this is a permanent state of affairs? Will I ever only get so much better but never back to 100%? I don't know. But I do know that my experiences with medications over the past couple of years has made me extremely leery of using most any prescription drug. The drug companies *don't* test properly, IMO. The so-called trials are a joke. They lie and cheat and do whatever is necessary to make that dollar. Meds are big business. So as far as I'm concerned unless it's absolutely life threatening if I *don't* take a specific drug....they can count me *out*!
Currently I take generic Ultracet as needed for the PN pain and Atarax for a number of reasons: Anxiety, itching and because the Ultracet gives me a speed buzz and since I usually take it at night I have to have help to sleep. That's it...besides sudafed when needed and Ibuprofen and things like that.
Barbara