Mania Prozac 13/09/1990 U.S.A. Woman Has Manic Reaction to Prozac
Summary:
http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/AC/prozac/2443T1.PDF
CASEY : Thank you. Suzanne Johnson, please?
JOHNSON: My name is Suzanne Johnson I come
before you today, my judge and and jury, pleading not only for my
life but literally
thousands of others. As I stand before your firing squad, I
must cry to be heard. I don't deserve this. Nobody does.
Only God has the power to pick who lives and who dies. Who do
you think you are? God?
My Prozac nightmare is beyond description. There is
no known vocabulary to describe what has happened. Prozac has
altered the entire course of my life. I'll never, ever be the
same. Prozac has destroyed every hope of me having any kind
of normalcy in my life. Gone are my carefree days, never,
ever to return.
I was told that Prozac had no side effects, except
for possible weight loss. No withdrawals and no addictive
potential. I literally quote my physician, "Suzanne,
sometimes patients lose 5 percent of their body weight, but
then we can never be too rich or too thin, can we?"
Looking back, the emotional side effects began
immediately. My wild spending started within a week of my
starting on Prozac. I began lending sums of money to
people when I didn't have the money to spare. I went on
credit card binges that will takes years to pay off. I even
purchased a opera length black gamma mink coat.
Also, here come the mood elevations and
irresponsible behavior. I had become impervious to any type
of normal thinking. I was totally out of control. My friends
were aghast at my deteriorating mental state, but were afraid
to say anything to me about it because of my agitated state of mind.
In my own thoughts I had become superior, almost godlike. All
semblances of religious faith were torn to shambles,
literally nonexistent. Now my love of God was masked, total
masked by darkness by Eli Lilly’s devil Prozac.
During this time it is a miracle I did not harm
myself or others. I had become a menace to society, and the
FDA is allowing this to happen. I want to know why. On
September 3, 1991, the United European Parliament recommended
to the member countries where Prozac is authorized to look
into Eli Lilly’s killer drug and recommend discontinuation of
Prozac in its present form. What happened to America, the
beautiful land of the free? This totals 23 -- 23 -- western
European countries
Do they care more about their people than you do
about yours? We've become so money-oriented that
money, the money, the money, let’s have the money.
I don't understand.
The FDA is calling for retraction of various food
products, citing false and misleading advertising. What about
false and misleading advertising concerning Prozac? Look at
this brochure. It’s a school teacher. She can't sleep, so
she’s going to take Prozac so she can function properly. You
open your mouth, you pop a pill, and the world becomes rose-colored
again. I wouldn't want anybody on Prozac to teach my
children. I don’t think you would, either.
Allen Gellsberg from your office sent around a fax
on July 2, 1991, and stated that since Prozac was introduced
in 1988 more adverse side effects have been reported than any
other drug. I wish you would stop this atrocity now. How
many more people are going to be killed and maimed before you
do something? You have the power to change things. You have
the power to listen to what we say and investigate what we
say. We need help.
My nightmare continues. Each step I take today is
a borrowed step from God. Last November I was hospitalized
with an hematocrit of 9000, a hemoglobin of 2500, and a white
count of 1100. I am here today at great personal risk with
During my ingestation of Prozac my bone marrow was
being eaten up. I was so high on Prozac that I noticed no
physical symptoms.
Please take Prozac off the market. Imagine my
dismay when I was alerted to the fact that bone marrow donors
are being accepted that are on Prozac therapy.
When someone
undergoes a transplant, the young mother, the father, the
child, and the cause of death is listed as complications of
bone marrow transplant, when in fact it could have been cause
by marrow that --
DR. CASEY: One minute, please.
MS. JOHNSON: This madness has got to stop. You are
holding, you guys are holding a loaded gun in my hands at my
temple. You’re playing Russian roulette with my life. Maybe
the next time the chamber won' be empty. Without a medical
miracle, it’s too late for me now. Withdraw Prozac from the
market before it harms anybody else, before other blood is on
your hands, because my blood is already on your hands.
DR. CASEY: Thank you.