Antidepressant withdrawal; chemotherapy backpacks; dizziness; over the counter gels for pain relief
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Antidepressants and revised guidance from NICE reflecting that, for some people, they can be difficult drugs to come off; Margaret McCartney explains why this initiative is long over due. Chemotherapy backpacks - a novel way of giving cancer therapy that allows people to stay at home, improves quality of life during treatment and takes pressure off the NHS. Plus dizziness - or vertigo - is a common problem but it can mean different things to different people and occasionally can be a sign of stroke; so what are the clues? And our insider's guide to over the counter treatment: this week anti-inflammatory gels for pain relief.
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| 0:47.2 | Red flags in vertigo. Dizziness is a common complaint and most cases are not that serious. |
| 0:52.6 | But occasionally it can be a sign of stroke. |
| 0:55.7 | But how do you tell? And we continue our guide to over-the-counter remedies with an insider's |
| 1:00.7 | take on anti-inflammatory gels for sprains and strains. But first, antidepressants and revised guidance |
| 1:08.5 | from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to reflect that, for some people, they can be very difficult drugs to come off. |
| 1:16.5 | Dr Margaret McCartney is in our Glasgow studio. Margaret, many would say about time too. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, this problem has been going on for decades. In the 1950s, the first antidepressants were put onto the market, different |
| 1:28.7 | types from what we use nowadays. And shortly after they appeared, there were reports of withdrawal |
| 1:33.7 | reactions in the literature. Again, this happened with newer drugs, reports of withdrawal effects |
| 1:38.7 | in the 1960s and 70s in the literature. And of course, then we get to the 1980s when fluoxetine, |
| 1:44.8 | Prozac, goes onto the market and a couple of other slightly different antidepressants after that. |
| 1:49.9 | And again, looking through the literature, lots of reports of doctors and researchers |
| 1:54.2 | describing what they called interruption syndromes, |
| 1:57.3 | but I think we would recognise as being those withdrawal side effects |
| 2:00.2 | that we're still talking about today. |
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