Psychiatrist Dr. Grace Jackson Comments on Detoxing from Antidepressants & Pregnancy Exposure, Damage to DNA/Eggs

Psychiatrist Dr. Grace Jackson Comments on Detoxing from Antidepressants & Pregnancy Exposure, Damage to DNA/Eggs

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Code ‘Blue’ – Effexor & Pregnancy Blues Don’t Mix

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/11374/ssri-birth-defects-antidepressants-pregnancy.html 

Not Enough Research on SSRIs and Pregnancy 

October 15, 2008. By Heidi Turner

San Antonio, TX: Kerri T. wants women to know that antidepressants and pregnancy don’t mix. Kerri says that she was never told about the link between SSRIs and birth defects and she believes her daughter’s health problems are the result of exposure to an SSRI antidepressant.

“During my whole pregnancy, I took 300 mgs of Effexor XR,” Kerri says. “My psychiatrist never told me about any of the warnings and I never saw any of the sample packets where it said that if the baby was exposed to Effexor in the third trimester there could be problems and longer hospital stays.  

“I delivered Caroline at full term. She had no seizures during the pregnancy. She was born via C-section and immediately after birth started having seizures. The doctor took her out and took her right to NICU (neonatal intensive care unit). I couldn’t even hold Caroline right away; they just took her away. She was put on 4 seizure medications and on the ventilator.

“At 3 days old, Caroline basically died. They had tried to take her off the ventilator and she died. The doctors did 2 minutes of chest compressions and intubated her. She was hypotonic from the medicine. Luckily, they brought her back. The following week they tried to take her off the ventilator again and she coded again.”

Caroline was born November 29, 2006 and was not able to breathe on her own until December 20, 2006. She did not leave the hospital until March 5, 2007. 

“Caroline was so stiff at birth that she needed special casts on her legs and splints on her hands. The doctor said he thought it was the Effexor that caused this.

“On January 11, 2007, we put Caroline into surgery because she was being fed through her nose at the time. The surgery was to put in a g-tube and nissan wrap (to prevent reflux) around her esophagus. That day was the first time her father and I saw her without tape all over her face and wires everywhere.

“In March she was released from the hospital. Caroline got really sick right before April and she was hospitalized again for 14 days withrespiratory failure. She had 50 percent oxygen and almost died again. This past March, (2008), she had to go into the hospital again for respiratory problems. 

“She had tubes in her ears because she has too many ear infections [related to her inability to properly swallow]. She is doing sign language and can say ‘Mom.’ She has a walker through Medicaid. She wears a patch over one eye 4 hours a day and cannot take anything by mouth. She still hasn’t learned to suck or swallow and has developmental delays. 

“I’ve taken her to a metabolic doctor and the tests came back negative. All of her genetic testing also came back negative. The only thing that was different between this pregnancy [and an earlier pregnancy] was the 300 mgs of Effexor. Her EEG and MRIs of her brain have been fine, although she seems weaker on one side of the brain. 

“It’s been quite a struggle. I have a 4 year old and during that pregnancy I took Wellbutrin and a low dose of Effexor. There didn’t seem to be anything wrong, except that she was really irritable after she was born. She cried a lot and was colicky. I didn’t think about it at the time, but now I wonder if she suffered withdrawal from Effexor.

“I would tell other women to try not to take antidepressants when they are pregnant. There is not enough research on it. If they really need to, they should take the lowest dose possible. I did not know about this—I was not told about everything that was going on with Effexor.”

Filed under: antidepressants, Pregnancy, Caroline, Effexor, Kerri T., seizures

Facts On Recent School Shooters Taking Antidepressants

Prescription for Violence: Is there a Connection Between School Shooters & Psychiatric Drugs?
New Documentary Exposes Rampant Pharmaceutically–Induced School Shootings
22 September 2008

The Kauhajoki Finland school shooting, which left 11 dead and 2 wounded, could be the latest in the chain of psychiatric drug induced school shootings highlighted in a new documentary entitled Psychiatry: Prescription for Violence — created by the mental health watchdog, Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). With 54 dead and 105 wounded from recent school shooters under the influence of psychiatric drugs documented to cause suicidal behavior, mania, psychosis, hallucinations, hostility and “homicidal ideation,” CCHR is calling on Finland’s law enforcement and press to fully investigate the school shooter’s psychiatric drug history. The group says this is the second major school shooting to happen in Finland in less than a year: last November, Pekka-Eric Auvinen joined the growing list of school shooters under the influence of psychiatric drugs documented by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to cause suicidal behavior and homicidal thoughts. In other instances, the shooter’s medical records were never made public, so their psychiatric drug use remains in question. School shootings committed by individuals under the influence of psychiatric drugs include: 

• DeKalb, Illinois – February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak shot and killed five people and wounded 16 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology reports showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.
   
• Omaha, Nebraska – December 5, 2007: 19-year-old Robert Hawkins killed eight people and wounded five before committing suicide in an Omaha mall. Hawkins’ friend told CNN that the gunman was on antidepressants, and autopsy results confirmed he was under the influence of the “anti-anxiety” drug Valium.
   
• Jokela, Finland – November 7, 2007: 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School in southern Finland, then committed suicide.
   
• Cleveland, Ohio – October 10, 2007: 14-year-old Asa Coon stormed through his school with a gun in each hand, shooting and wounding four before taking his own life. court records show Coon had been placed on the antidepressant Trazadone.
   
• Blacksburg, Virginia – April 16, 2007: The psychiatric drug history of Seung-Hui Cho in the Virginia Tech Massacre was never made public. Initial reports stated that “depression medication” was found among Cho’s belongings. But neither his toxicology reports, nor his recent medical history were ever released to find out whether Cho had been in withdrawal from psychiatric medication. (33 were killed and 29 injured, but this was not included in the total of dead and wounded cited above.)
   
• Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota – March 21, 2005: 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise, reportedly under the influence of the antidepressant Prozac, went on a shooting rampage at home and at his school, killing nine people and wounding five before committing suicide. 
   
• Greenbush, New York – February 2004: 16-year-old Jon Romano strolled into his high school in east Greenbush and opened fire with a shotgun. Special education teacher Michael Bennett was hit in the leg. Romano had been taking “medication for depression.” 
   
• El Cajon, California – March 22, 2001: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman was on two antidepressants, Effexor and Celexa, when he opened fire at his California high school wounding five. Hoffman had also undergone an “anger management” program.
   
• Williamsport, Pennsylvania – March 7, 2000: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was on the antidepressant Prozac when she blasted away at fellow students in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wounding one.
   
• Conyers, Georgia – May 20, 1999: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being treated with a mix of antidepressants when he opened fire on and wounded 6 of his classmates.
   
• Columbine, Colorado – April 20, 1999: 18-year-old Eric Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox when he and his partner Dylan Klebold killed 12 classmates and a teacher and wounded 23 others before taking their own lives in the bloodiest school massacre in history. The coroner confirmed that the antidepressant was in his system through toxicology reports while Dylan Klebold’s autopsy was never made public. Harris and Klebold underwent “anger management” and “death education” classes.
   
• Notus, Idaho – April 16, 1999: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun rounds in his school narrowly missing students; he was taking a mix of antidepressants.
   
• Springfield, Oregon – May 21, 1998: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his own parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on students in the cafeteria, killing two and wounding 22. Kinkel had been on Prozac. Kinkel also underwent “anger management” classes.

This message is a public service announcement provided by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International. For more information, contact CCHR at 800-869-2247 or email humanrights@cchr.org

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