Interesting hot topic in the comment section of 1 Boring Old Man blog:

In this post, discussing the C.A.B.F. Child Adolescent Bipolar Foundation's name change to the Mind Foundation and it's remaining conflicted science advisory council that includes, Joseph Biederman, et al.

What began as a discussion of the corruption, conflicts and sanction against Biederman from Harvard, Wagner who was co-author to the Paxil 329 study and more...has turned into a comment section hot bed of pro-med parents equating psychiatric meds to chemotherapy for cancer patients, and one mother of a 10 year old son with compromised kidneys, working at 75% and putting him on Lithium, after trialing Depakote, Trileptal, Seroquel, Ativan.

I'm pretty sure some of my readers would be interested to go read the pro-med defense, it's entrenched in pharmaceutical baseline treatment, as the end all be all, with disregard to side effects that the future might hold,because it's the containment of the child's anger and emotions that seems important today to the parents. That's their choice.

Duane Sherry, go take a look over at the Boring Old Man post, where Bernard Carroll has even chimed in, who once called Charles Nemeroff so toxic he glows in the dark....

The CABF-Mind Freedom science advisors are the most tainted group I've ever seen on one panel. Those KOLs are the fuel behind the CABF parents and their strong belief in medications, yet, sadly, outcomes in a decade may not be what they all hoped for when they counted out those pills into the daily containers that sit on their kitchen counters.


Trileptal

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Novartis pays $422 million fine for illegal promotion off-label use of Trileptal for bipolar disorder


Adverse Events

Lithium Carbonate


My daughter was given Lithobid and Lithium Carbonate for several years, and she could barely hold a fork without the tremors interfering as time went on. After much discussion a doctor removed the Lithium and said she never needed it, and when the lithium was removed the tremors stopped. The tremor side effect was not immediate, it built up over time. She does have permanent thyroid damage now as a result of that drug. They trialed Trileptal on her too.

Trileptal side effects can be the same as a psychiatric symptom

Rx list

Suicidal Behavior and Ideation

Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), including Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) , increase the risk of suicidal thoughts or behavior in patients taking these drugs for any indication. Patients treated with any AED for any indication should be monitored for the emergence or worsening of depression, suicidal thoughts or behavior, and/or any unusual changes in mood or behavior.

Renal Impairment
There is a linear correlation between creatinine clearance and the renal clearance of MHD. When Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) is administered as a single 300-mg dose in renally-impaired patients (creatinine clearance < 30 mL/min), the elimination half-life of MHD is prolonged to 19 hours, with a two-fold increase in AUG. Dose adjustment for Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) is recommended in these patients [see Use in Specific Populations and see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION].


Duane Sherry's story.

Ruth Deming's story-kidney transplant from Lithium use

My diminishing kidney function is the result of taking lithium carbonate for 16.5 years for manic-depression, which I no longer have."

Continued

More, after that post in this follow up post at Boring Old Man blog, authored by a retired psychiatrist. He's mad as hell....