Anti-Psychotic Drugs cause diabetes, obesity and/or high cholesterol.

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A lot of people are unaware that their health problems could be related to their

pharmacueticals. Weight, heart disease, cholesterol problems, plaque in the

arteries, psychological problems, liver, kidney, toxic buldup, etc.

 

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Wed, 26 May 2004 20:56:09 -0700

Anti-Psychotic Drugs cause diabetes, obesity

and/or high cholesterol.

 

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=14004

 

Caution Urged on Anti-Psychotic Drugs

 

People taking certain drugs for schizophrenia, manic-depression, autism,

dementia or several other psychiatric disorders should be carefully watched

for signs they are developing diabetes, obesity or high cholesterol, four

medical societies say.

 

The recommendation follows recent studies that link those potential side

effects to certain anti-psychotic drugs.

 

The statement deals with six now available in the United States: Abilify,

Clozaril, Geodon, Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa.

 

The recommendation, released Tuesday, comes from the American Diabetes

Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the North American

Association for the Study of Obesity, and the American Association of

Clinical Endocrinologists. It appears in the February issue of the journal

Diabetes Care.

 

The medications differ in their risks of promoting the various side effects,

the statement says. So a patient who develops a problem with one drug can be

gradually switched over to another drug with less potential for that

problem. For example, a switchover should be considered if a patient has a

weight gain of 5 percent or more, the statement says.

 

Obesity and diabetes, like high cholesterol, raise a person's risk of heart

disease.

 

The recommendation says doctors should screen patients before starting them

on such a drug or as soon as possible afterward, noting such things as a

history of obesity and diabetes in the patient and the family, and the

patient's weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Doctors should also

monitor the patient once therapy has begun.

 

Patients and family members should be informed of the potential for the side

effects, and be told of signs of diabetes and especially those of a

life-threatening complication called diabetic ketoacidosis, the statement

says. That complication is marked by such symptoms as weight loss, nausea,

vomiting, rapid breathing and dehydration.

 

That complication has appeared in some people using anti-psychotics, and it

was an early tip-off that the drugs might be linked to diabetes.

 

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[Guest guest]

Frank, in addition to the things you mentioned, anti-psychotics

produce permanent Parkinson's symptoms in those who are on them long-

term. This is so well-known that it is regularly mentioned in

mainstream psychiatric literature.

 

Also, people can become permanently dependent on some anti-depressant

drugs---MAO Inhibitors, for instance.

 

Several years ago, I met a fellow online who had escaped from a

mental institution, where he'd been imprisoned for a diagnosis of

schizophrenia, and who had pretty much cured himself

orthomolecularly. He was still a bit rough around the edges, from the

way he wrote, but he was certainly coherent and reasonably well-

functioning. You had mentioned a few posts back that I appeared not

to be aware or orthomolecular treatment of mental illness. I am aware

of it, and it appears quite valid to me. I read Priscilla Slagle's

book, " The Way Up From Down " years ago. It contains excellent

information.

 

NOT NOT NOT everybody who is depressed needs to take serotonin

reuptake inhibitors! Many people who are depressed or otherwise

unbalanced emotionally need to take supplementary B vitamins and

amino acids! I benefitted greatly from taking extra L-Tyrosine and a

complete free-form Amino Acid supplement.

 

Best wishes,

 

Elliot