Why prozac!!!!?!


Question:

Why prozac!!!!?

i have been given prozac by my dr. I was wondering how this helps with bulimia does it stop the feeling to want to binge and purge or does it stop you from puking food back up. x


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basically he's trying to make you "happy!" so you don't have to deal with the emotional issues that likely led to the eating disorder in the first place.

The biggest problem in our country today are doctors who in bed with the pharmaseutical industry, who just prescribe away and over-medicate the population, rather than letting people feel and deal with emotional issues when they come up.

The only way to truly more forward is to work through an issue, not medicate ones self to where you simply don't notice the symptoms anymore.

Throw the prozac in the garbage, and start to see a licensed psychotherapist who can help you overcome the issues that started the problem in the first place.

added later ------

OK, so I see a lot of misinformed people have thumbs downed me. You don't like my opinion on Prozac and pharmeseutcials? Fine, take it from Wikipedia:

"While bringing many good pharmaceuticals to market, Eli Lilly (creator of Prozac) has often pushed products to the marketplace with bad research, withholding of research to the public or false advertising.

In one of the only three cases to ever go to trial for Prozac's possible role in inducing suicide, Eli Lilly was caught corrupting the judicial process by making a deal with the plaintiff's attorney to throw the case, in part by not disclosing damaging evidence to the jury.

The case, known as the Fentress Case involved a Kentucky man, Joseph Wesbecker, who was on Prozac and went to his workplace, opening fire with an assault rifle killing eight people (including Fentress), and injuring 12 others before killing himself. The jury returned a 9-to-3 verdict in favor of Lilly. But the judge, in the end, referred the matter to the Kentucky Supreme Court, which later found that "there was a serious lack of candor with the trial court and there may have been deception, bad faith conduct, abuse of judicial process and, perhaps even fraud." The judge later revoked the verdict and instead, recorded the case as settled. The value of the secret settlement deal has never been disclosed, but was reportedly "tremendous".

In 2001 Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges regarding the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive personal information collected from consumers through its Prozac.com Web site. The company disclosed E-mail addresses of 669 Subscribers to its Prozac Reminder Service. On June 27, 2001, a Lilly employee created a new computer program to access Medi-messenger subscribers' e-mail addresses and sent them an e-mail message announcing the termination of the Medi-messenger service. The June 27 e-mail message included all of the recipients' e-mail addresses within the "To:" line of the message, thereby unintentionally disclosing to each individual subscriber the e-mail addresses of all 669 Medi-messenger subscribers.

As part of the settlement, Lilly said it would take appropriate security measures to protect consumers' privacy. Lilly's security breach was the subject of a July 2001 petition from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) requesting that the FTC investigate and take appropriate action to remedy the breach.

The company spent millions of dollars lobbying the United States Congress in hopes of extending its patent on Prozac. The patent on Prozac was declared invalid on February 2, 2001, in connection with a lawsuit against a generic competitor.

The early loss of patent exclusivity allowed generic companies to sell Prozac and Lilly sales plumeted; the corporation is still recovering from this major financial setback.[citation needed] Eli Lilly subsequently released Prozac Weekly and Cymbalta. The company has joined others in the drug industry in continuing to fight for extended patent laws that would protect their exclusive rights to market their pharmaceutical products.

In 2004, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies generated over 300 billion dollars in revenue.

Currently, there are approximately 100,000 pharmaceutical sales reps in the United States pursuing some 120,000 pharmaceutical prescribers. The number doubled in the four years from 1999 to 2003.

Drug companies spend $5 billion annually sending representatives to physician offices. Make no mistake; doctors make a VERY good living off of money and perks provided by drug companies, which is why they are so quick to give out (or sometimes even mail out) drug samples, and why their offices are literally littered with propaganda posters for drug companies.

For just the top 10 best selling drugs, the most common side effects of these drugs include: mild gastrointestinal symptoms or hemorrhage, cerebral hemorrhage, diarrhea, nausea, headache, increased blood pressure, suicide, change in heart rate, or an irregular heartbeat, palpitations, erratic behavior, blurred vision, fever, sweating, depression, hepatitis, "Brain shivers", jaundice, weight gain, low blood pressure, seizure, sexual dysfunction, insomnia, and/or dizziness."

Do what you like, that's one of the benefits of living in a free country, but you'll never convince me that pharmaceuticals and their significant abuse at the hands of greedy companies, greedy doctors and ill-informed patients isn't threatening to ruin our great country.




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