David Healy posted an article about PSSD and small fiber neuropathy:
https://rxisk.org/pssd-withdrawal-small ... europathy/
Has anyone tried quantitative sensory testing or skin biopsy ?
Ghost wrote:I'm going to look into it more after my exams. I have always had a problem with this theory, but I'll give it a fair chance.
One (minor) critique I have is that he still calls it withdrawal. I know that might seem small, but when I joined the forum in 2014 it was still common to call PSSD "ssri withdrawal". I'd like to think I've helped change that. It was a term from the old sites like paxil progress where a lot of people didn't really know what was going on.
Giving healy benefit of the doubt, maybe it has different connotation in the UK, or maybe he still writes for people who were around the forums a decade or so ago. Either way, I don't believe it's medically correct.
It's not the withdrawal from SSRI that is our problem, it is the changes FROM the SSRI that persist long after we stop.
Zant808 wrote:Ghost wrote:I'm going to look into it more after my exams. I have always had a problem with this theory, but I'll give it a fair chance.
One (minor) critique I have is that he still calls it withdrawal. I know that might seem small, but when I joined the forum in 2014 it was still common to call PSSD "ssri withdrawal". I'd like to think I've helped change that. It was a term from the old sites like paxil progress where a lot of people didn't really know what was going on.
Giving healy benefit of the doubt, maybe it has different connotation in the UK, or maybe he still writes for people who were around the forums a decade or so ago. Either way, I don't believe it's medically correct.
It's not the withdrawal from SSRI that is our problem, it is the changes FROM the SSRI that persist long after we stop.
I never liked that the whole "protracted withdrawal" theory. Because at what point in time are you supposed to say you are no longer in protracted withdrawal and that whatever side effects you got are permanent? Is someone who took Prozac back in 1988 and still has sexual dysfunction supposed to be in protracted withdrawal still? I guess it's probably something the moderators of those forums and groups wanted to hold on to in order to stay positive and offer hope because they read Dr. Ashton's manual as if it were gospel.
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