Violence & Suicide Attempt Prozac 14/10/1989 Missouri Woman Tries to Injure Husband & Self
Violence & Suicide Attempt	Prozac	1989-10-14	Missouri	Woman Tries to Injure Husband & Self
 
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 Summary:<br><br><!--StartFragment --><a href="http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/AC/prozac/2443T1.PDF">http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/AC/prozac/2443T1.PDF<br /><br /><br /></a><font face="courier" size="4"><strong>DR. CASEY: Mr. Donnelly, thank you very much for<br /><br />your comments. We appreciate your time. Miss Irene Dotson?<br /><br />MS. DOTSON: Good morning. My name is Irene<br /><br />Dotson. I came with my 10-year-old son and my sister from<br /><br />Jefferson City, Missouri, to share a personal experience <br /><br />that I had while taking Prozac.<br /><br />In 1989 I was working at a very high-pressure job.<br /><br />I was working for the Missouri Department of Social <br /><br />Services. I was managing an apartment complex and I was <br /><br />working on my<br /><br />master?s. Things were going pretty good but it was very<br /><br />stressful. I finally just decided I?ve got to go to the <br /><br />doctor and talk to my doctor and find out why I?m not being able to<br /><br />handle this. I?ve handled much more in the past.<br /><br />The doctor told me that this wonderful new drug<br /><br />Prozac would really get me through this rough time that I was<br /><br />having and just to bear with it. He said it?s sort of slow,<br /><br />you know, getting it started. It may take a while<br /><br />before you see any help, but once you take it, you will <br /><br />better.<br /><br />I help my husband and my son at managing this apartment<br /><br />complex, we work side by side day after day -- we had a very<br /><br />healthy, happy family. Once I began taking the Prozac that<br /><br />all changed. I underwent this complete personality change.<br /><br />I became paranoid, I wanted to avoid everyone -- I stayed in<br /><br /><br />my bedroom -- I wouldn?t answer the door, I didn?t go to see<br /><br />anyone, not even When I should have and it was always<br /><br />like a videotape, playing in my head every night,<br /><br />I just couldn?t deal with my son or my husband.<br /><br />I started having these nightmares of dying --<br /><br />of me dying, different ways, it was almost<br /><br />like a horror movie being run through my head<br /><br />so then I didn?t want to go to sleep. I<br /><br />just wanted to stay up all the time. That didn?t help.<br /><br />I didn?t know what to do about it, so I decided that<br /><br />I was just going to go ahead and take care of myself and that<br /><br />everyone else could just forget me. I was just going to take<br /><br />care of myself and get through this. And that is not typical<br /><br />of me and it?s not typical of me to ignore my friends and my<br /><br />family, and I was putting them through a very, very bad time.<br /><br />It seemed like everyone was trying to push me over<br /><br />the edge. In citing one incident, which became a very violent<br /><br />time, my husband and I had what would have been a minor<br /><br />disagreement, say, six months before taking Prozac. On Prozac, I<br /><br />attacked him with a kitchen knife. Luckily, he?s bigger and<br /><br />stronger than I am and he defended himself, but I did this<br /><br />right in front of my son. Whenever I was stopped, I thought,<br /><br />&quot;I can?t believe what I?m doing. I don?t believe what I?m<br /><br />doing. This is wrong.&quot;<br /><br />Then I decided that I was going to kill myself. My<br /><br />doctor had prescribed nerve medicine for me -- I think it was<br /><font face="arial" size="2">.<br /></font><font face="courier" size="4">Ativan. I had just had the bottle filled that day and had<br /><br />hundred pills in it. And so I went and I took all hundred<br /><br />pills, right in front of my son and right in front of my<br /><br />husband. I was really lucky, because my husband forced me<br /><br />to go to the emergency room, They saved me.<br /><br />They told me that I could have had<br /><br />brain damage severely. We have put our life back together,<br /><br />but I?m sure that those incidents were caused by Prozac. Thank you.<br /></font></strong></font> 
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