((((stumpy)))))

I am so sorry that you experienced such a terrible reaction to medications. And it is totally understandable that you would want to know how your brain was effected and how to work on recovery with an understanding of what was effected.

We live in a world that is so full of medications to treat different illnesses and relieve uncomfortable symptoms, but we forget that every medication we take effects our brains. We often just trust a physician that hands us a prescription as just someone who is treating us and knows what is best to allow us to heal. But often that physician doesn't always know all the side effects and has been marketed by a salesman that respresents a pharmacutical company, so he too may be blind to a certain extent.

I often wonder about how many young women go on birth control, just thinking about controling pregnancy or even ways to remove that uncomfortable bothersome cycle that naturally takes place in her body every month. And what every woman doesn't realize is that she is truely playing around with her whole body chemistry that does effect the health of the brain as well.

I experienced a terrible reaction to a drug called Lupron that was administered to me in an implant in my arm to stop my period so I could heal after lazor surgery to lazor out endometriosis that itself was reaking havoc in my body and disabling me more and more. I ended up suddenly falling apart and experienced a completely disabling depression where I could not function psychologically. I went to see my gynocologist, thankfully I went to the right place to seek help. My gyno never told me it was the Lupron, he just told me that I had no estrogen count in my blood and that he would help me recover and not to worry. So I was treated with estrogen replacement and Zoloft. I slowly felt the fog lifting, very slowly one day at a time and it took a few months.

Now after I felt better, I slowly weaned myself off of the Zoloft because the side effects were getting to me. After I did that, I later slowly weaned myself off of the estrogen replacement pills. But what did happen to me was that Lupron sent me into early menopaus. And for a quite a few years I was always afraid that at any time I might be presented with and onset of depression that might cripple me. So I basically, quietly lived in a secret fear.

It wasn't for a long time that I learned about the side effects of Lupron and was able to trace my severe depression to taking that drug. And the problem was that the pharmacutical company did know that was happening and so they also warned the doctor but it had not gone public until many cases of that side effect were presented.
And as that happened, it was finally made public.

I don't think it is fair that someone not be informed about the real source of their reaction to a drug and what damage was caused in the brain. And it is obvious to me that there is often not full disclosure to drug dangers until way after the side effects are presented by many so that the information has to be disclosed.

I am very concerned about many mediations that are presented to young women for birth control. And other medications that can do much more harm than good.

It is much better to understand what therapy is truely treating and why, rather than wander around in the dark. I do believe that with therapy and direction we can learn ways to heal and overcome different challenges in our brains. But as has been proven in therapy after a brain trama a certain direction in therapy can present ways for the brain to overcome many different kinds of damage and often rewire and access and make new pathways to allow a patient to access recovery for losses. So, the growing study and understanding of brain pathology is truely paramont and the more we know as patients what has been possibly damaged or weakened, we can feel more hope and a sense of "I can recover" as we make efforts in therapy.

Open Eyes