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Before you give your child Zoloft, please read what is
happening with Paxil - Seroxat. Click
Here
Christopher Pittman, what will happen in the trial? Click
here
Australian judge rules antidepressant was cause of attempted
murder. Click here
Read Real Zoloft side effects, told by real
people. Click here
Zoloft
(sertraline hydrochloride)
Have you used Zoloft ? Did you get facial or body tics as a side effect? If you would like to be part of a potential class action law suit, send us an e-mail. Please state when you started
Zoloft, how long you used
Zoloft, what your side effects were or still are. Click here to send e-mail.
Click here to read of possible solution for drug induced tics.
Per Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Zoloft
"is chemically unrelated to other SSRIs, tricylic, or other available antidepressant agents." That Pfizer statement may be true regarding "chemically unrelated" but that is where the dissimilarities end.
What are the real Zoloft
side effects? Click here This is only a short list of what really happens while using Zoloft.
The side effects of Zoloft are in the same league with the other SSRIs. Pfizer at least goes one step further and admits Zoloft will metabolize in the liver and that people with even mild liver impairment should use caution and a lower dosage of
Zoloft. "Zoloft is extensively metabolized by the liver."
(From the Pfizer statements above, if your doctor has not conducted a full liver test before prescribing you
Zoloft, your doctor has not even read and or understood the precautions in the Pfizer brochure)
Side Effects Zoloft
(sertraline hydrochloride)
Frequent Zoloft Side Effects
| palpitations
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chest pain
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back pain
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hypoesthesia
(Partial loss of sensation) |
| appetite increase
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myalgia (Muscular pain)
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asthenia (Loss or lack of bodily strength, weakness) |
malaise (Vague feeling of illness or depression) |
| weight increase |
yawning |
female sexual dysfunction |
male sexual dysfunction |
| rhinitus (Inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes)
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tinnitus
(A sound in the ears, such as buzzing, ringing, or whistling, caused by a defect in the auditory nerve) |
hypertonia
(Having extreme muscular or arterial tension)
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The above Zoloft side effects are FREQUENT. If you are thinking of taking Zoloft or prescribing Zoloft to a patient, please stop for a minute and evaluate what you are trying to cure with Zoloft. If you or your patient are currently depressed, how do you think it will be with
all or most of the frequent side effects with you or your patient on a daily basis? Will it make things worse?
The above Zoloft side effects are taken from the Pfizer Premarketing clinical trials.
What Zoloft side effects can you expect after more than a few weeks of usage?
The list below is taken from the Zoloft
side effects (Postmarketing Evaluation)
| acute renal failure
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anaphylactoid reaction (Hypersensitivity to a foreign substance) |
angioedema (Excessive accumulation of fluid in the tissues)
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blindness
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optic neuritis (Inflammation, pain or loss of motion in the eye)
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cataract
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increased blood coagulation times
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bradycardia (Slowness of the heart rate, usually fewer than 60 beats per minute in an adult human) |
arrhythmias
(An irregularity in the force or rhythm of the heartbeat)
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Tachycardia
(A rapid heart rate, especially one above 100 beats per minute in an adult)
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Hypothyroidism (Insufficient production of thyroid hormones)
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Agranulocytosis (An acute disease marked by high fever and a sharp drop in circulating granular white blood cells) |
The above list of Zoloft side effects from Postmarketing Evaluation is actually much longer than listed here.
Deaths from Zoloft overdose have varied with the amounts taken. One patient ingested 13.5 grams and recovered while another ingested 2.5 grams and had a fatal outcome.
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Christopher Pittman, the trial:
As the June trial nears, the attention given to this case
will generate mixed feelings even for me.
Did Zoloft cause the behavior of Christopher? Can Zoloft or
other antidepressants be responsible for murder?
After researching antidepressants for nearly 5 years, receiving
thousands upon thousands of e-mails from people worldwide that have never met
each other and reading nearly the same e-mail text again and again, yes I do
firmly believe Zoloft can be the cause of Christopher's behavior and violent
act.
A simple DNA test click here
will undoubtedly show Christopher had a defect in the CYP2D6, which regulates
the metabolism. With this defect the Zoloft could not breakdown and pass through
his body and became toxic. Each pill he took of Zoloft, his body would become
more toxic. This would intensify the Zoloft side effects to a point he no longer
functioned as an aware human being.
Psychiatry manufactured the very abnormal behavior they profess
to be able to eliminate.
Pfizer may or may not give up their "hidden" clinical
trials run on Zoloft. They run the risk if they do not and they are found later
to virtually be out of business. The trials or hidden data, if it exist, will
eventually be disclosed.
Christopher's defense is easy. The problem we are facing here
and will be facing thousands of times in the future is, "We know the drug
caused the action but how do we let someone off for murder and place the entire
blame on Zoloft?"
There are other cases as well, with Paxil and other medications
where a person acted in a way totally out of their norm, committed a crime and
were sentenced to jail. This has happened even when the person stated to their
doctor the drug is making them feel very strange and out of control. The doctor
would not listen to them and increased the dosage.
So Christopher Pittman, you are in a catch 22 here. It does not
matter that the Zoloft caused you to lose all control and not be able to differentiate
what was real. The court can't let you off because of how others would abuse
this defense in the future.
Imagine, a person wants to murder someone and they know all they
need to do is start taking an antidepressant. They visit their doctor and say,
"I have been experiencing headaches for the past 2 weeks." Odds are
the doctor will prescribe and antidepressant instantly.
The person calls the doctor and tells them they are feeling
funny on the drug, kind of losing touch with reality. The doctor will probably
tell the person to increase the dosage.
5 days later they murder the person they intended to all along.
Christopher, this is the tough part to overcome. Not what you
have done but what someone else would do with your victory.
If you think is off the wall, I attended a conference 2 years
ago with the attorney's defending Christopher Pittman and this was mentioned.
Also present was the father of a man convicted of a crime while taking Paxil. I
had been communicating with the father for a few years before this and knew of
his son's story.
I wish the American court system was what so many of us think it
to be. It is not.
Christopher Pittman's attorney's will need to think beyond this
and find a solution. Christopher Pittman's defense is un-defendable.
We are responsible for our own actions. Christopher Pittman,
this includes you. Many of us throughout our lives have faced difficult
situations, stress beyond belief and more but did not murder.
Pfizer should be sitting at the defense table with you however.
Pfizer knows. Other than Eli Lilly and Pfizer, the other pharmaceutical
company's are admitting the side effects. Pfizer and Eli Lilly can't admit to
the side effects yet because of pending court cases.
Jim Harper
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The day after I wrote the above, this news comes out from
Australia.
"Mum free after murder bid
DAVID DARRAGH
Antidepressant drugs prescribed to a mother contributed substantially to her
two attempts to kill herself and her two young children by gassing them in
the family car, Chief Justice David Malcolm has ruled.
The 32-year-old woman, whose name is suppressed, walked free from the
Supreme Court yesterday with a four-year jail term suspended for two years
after pleading guilty to four counts of attempting to murder her daughters,
then aged nine and two. She made separate murder-suicide attempts near
Waroona and Pinjarra on June 17 last year.
Justice Malcolm found the medication affected her mental state and
"substantially contributed" to the offences.
"The drug . . . impaired her capacity for rational thought to such a degree
that her responsibility for her actions was substantially diminished and her
capacity for rational thought and action was gravely impaired," he said.
Justice Malcolm described the woman as a loving mother who cared for her
children and said her prospects of recovery were reasonably good due to the
support of family and friends.
The Department of Community Development would determine whether and when she
could resume care of her children, who had suffered considerable trauma.
The woman has already had supervised access visits to her children, who live
with her father.
She was also sentenced to intensive supervision orders and 80 hours
community work. The woman, who lives near Bunbury, wept in the dock and
hugged her father in the public gallery after being sentenced. The court was
told she had a history of depression and was prescribed high doses of Aropax
(paroxetine), a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, and Efexor
(venlafaxine), a serotonin noradrenaline re-uptake inhibitor, in the months
before the offences.
The doses were increased after the first of her four suicide attempts in May
2002.
The drugs are also marketed under the names Prozac and Zoloft.
Renowned British critic of antidepressants David Healy, who examined the
woman's case, concluded that it showed diminished responsibility resulting
from the drugs.
Outside court, the woman's father said he saw a marked improvement in his
daughter's health after she stopped taking the drugs.
He said authorities should provide warnings on the drugs and doctors should
monitor patients and make them aware of possible side effects. Patients
should also question any increase in the drugs if their condition was not
improving.
He said he hoped she would be reunited with her children.
C 2004 West Australian Newspapers Limited
All Rights Reserved."
June 6, 2004 - The trial will now be delayed, probably until
October, 2004.
Circuit Court Judge Paul Short stepped down after his wife, Sen. Linda
Short, R-Chester, revealed to him that she owned shares of stock in
Pfizer.
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