Thursday, January 31, 2008

NOW they tell us

People taking epilepsy medication have twice the risk of suicidal thoughts

I'm not currently on any, but back in the day when they were trying their damndest to get anything to work on me I was on a number of them and let me say this: yes. It does happen. With me it only happened with one drug and I was promptly taken off of it. This is one drug out of the five I ended up trying. And when they say twice the rate, they mean .43% of the sample group compared to .22% of the placebo group. But it does happen. And there should be warnings. Hopefully this will help people be aware that epilepsy meds are nothing to fuck with.

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