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THE DRUG COMPANYS HAVE A CONSPIRACY TO MAKE MONEY OFF US. THEY DONT WANT US TO GET BETTER THEY WANT US TO GET SICKER WITH MORE ILLNESSES SO THEY HAVE TO PRESCRIBE US MORE DRUGS.

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I hope you're not too upset if I disagree that there is a conspiracy. I was ill before I got medicated, not the other way around. I don't tolerate meds well, so I take as few as I can manage, but the key word in all of this is management. The drugs are not to blame for these adverse events. Poor medical management is. So long as "managed health care" (now *that's* an oxymoron) makes it easier to drug a patient than to invest the time it takes to develop a personal medical management plan, then drugs are what you'll get from a doctor. Blame the stockholders in the HMOs, not the doctors or drug companies. The doctors are employees, doing their employers' bidding.

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If you haven't herd,the famous drug Zerprexa, has been found with point-blank proof to cause diabetes in most people.

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I dispute "most". A good number, yes. But only if follow-up care is deficient, and the warning signs are ignored. Again, it is a management issue. We know of the risk. It is foolhardy or negligent to fail to manage that risk.

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If youre wondering why,its because it contains Glucose (essentially sugar) that gives the body a sugar overdose which causes non-diabetic people to become diabetic.

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I'm sorry, but there is no glucose in Zyprexa. (maybe in the oral dissolving version?) In any case, there's more sugar in one swig of a soda. Nobody gets diabetes from that.

In fact, no one knew why an antipsychotic could lead to diabetes until just a couple of months ago. It turns out there's a whole lot we don't know about how the body works. As is often the case, we discover a new way to make the body *not* work right, and that shows us new places to look and try to understand how complex the whole thing is.

The antipsychotic induced diabetes is caused by suppression of muscarinic (M3)/cholinergic release of insulin from the pancreas. It is totally independent of the normal glucose/insulin regulatory process. It's a nervous system-activated form of insulin regulation that goes awry.

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AND,I personally was on the drug Geodon,I am 14 years old and I was put in the hostpital for HEART ATTACKS due to that drug.I am not overweight or have any heart problems or health history.

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I'm sorry you experienced this horrible adverse effect, but I think you've chosen the wrong description. Heart attack is loss of blood flow to heart muscle. I'm sure you had an arrhythmia, irregular heart beats (torsade de pointes). Younger people are much more prone to this (we just figured out), so Geodon is not recommended unless you're an adult.

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Ziprasidone (Active drug in Geoon) CAUSES THE VENTRICALS OF YOUR HEART TO SWING AROUND IN RAPID MOTION TO RACE YOUR HEART BEAT LEADING TO FATAL DEATH OR PERMANET VESSEL DAMAGE.
HOW'S THAT FOR SHOCKING GENERAL AOL READERS?

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There's a dose dependent extension of the so-called QT interval, which can lead to ventricular arrhythmia (torsade de pointes), or more severe, ventricular fibrillation, which will cause death if acute treatment is not available.

There are a number of risk factors, that combine with the drug, to cause the heart rhythm disturbance. I think it's unfair to just blame the drug.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...26&query_hl=10

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Why do the drug companys do this?TO MAKE MONEY,TO GET US WITH MORE SICKNESSES SO THEY HAVE TO PRESCRIBE MORE MEDICATION.

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The drug companies don't prescribe medication.

It's an interesting idea, that this is all a huge conspiracy, but I fail to see who will benefit if we all become so sick and dependent on medication. Who will work? Who will produce all the things we all need to live, if we're all ill, or impoverished by medication costs? Who will pay the taxes that fund all the acts of governments?

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I Went to my psychatrist and told her what happen with my heart AND SHE ACTUALLY RECCEMENDED PUTTING ME ON HEART MEDICATION! dO YOU SEE THE PATERN HERE?

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I see that your psychiatrist recognizes that you are at risk for further heart disturbance. It's all about managing the risks. I doubt you are taking Geodon because of a doctor's whim. Nor do I believe for a second that you don't recognize that there is a sound basis for prescribing it in the first place. It was unfortunate that you developed the cardiac side effects. But, when that happens, and the initial need for treatment still exists, the rational thing to do is to manage the cardiac problems that have arisen. (Or switch you to another primary medication (but that alternate might cause diabetes)), and so on.

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If you get diabetes you have to go on diabetic drugs,leading to more money.

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Not true. Dietary management is quite possible, if the signs are caught early enough. Again, the key word is management.

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Why do the shrinks go along with this? as long as they stock the drugs,prescribe them,promote them,they get a cut AS WELL AS FREE SENTIMENTS AND GIFTS.

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There is no direct monetary gain. There is no "cut".

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How about those Geodon clipboards or Zoloft hand soap you see in there office? All for if they prescribe enough meds of that name.

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Those are advertising. You saw them. You recognize them. Advertising. I have free pens that have software logos on them from trade shows. A hat with a car company logo. Advertising. The same goes for sample packs of meds. They are expensed as advertising, in the drug company's ledgers.

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SO SEE WHAT IM SAYING IS NOT THE RAMBLINGS OF A MAD WOMAN,BUT BLATANT AND RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.

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I totally hear your anger. I am sorry if anything I said leads you to think I am not hearing your voice. I started out wanting to correct some factual errors in what you said, and tossed in a little of my opinion.

I hear you. I also value the fact that you spoke up about your concerns. That is also very important.

It is because voices like yours are raised that these adverse reactions are identified, and investigated. No doctor would willingly compromise your health. But, they can do it out of ignorance. That happens all the time. Doctors are human, too.

It sucks that we're all guinea pigs. But everthing we know in medicine today is because somebody, somewhere, sometime, was a guinea pig. Now it's our turn, for our children's sake.

I hope you talk to your psychiatrist again about heart medication, or about switching your primary med to one with a lesser risk of that side effect. You have learned something about how your body reacts to meds. You're special, and you have every right to demand special management of your condition.

Lar