Antipsychotics cause diabetes, cardiovascular disease

These articles, by pro-drugging forces by the way, should be required reading for informed consent before a person voluntarily makes a decision to take these very dangerous drugs.

Keep in mind when you read these articles that these are people who are very much opposed to the antipsychiatry movement.

Ask yourself this: would a normal doctor prescribe drugs that cause diabetes, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, and on average, shorten a patient's life by about 25 years?

Doesn't it seem like a patient should have the human right to choose whether or not to take such dangerous drugs? That's all I want is the right to choose.

And this thread is just focusing on the diabetes and heart disease aspects of these drugs. It is worth mentioning that these drugs also cause akathisia and tardive dyskinesia / dystonia, plus the negative cognitive effects and brain damage. Once again, I want the human right to choose whether or not I want to take these risks with my own body. It is my body and my life. No other group of people is discriminated against worse than people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness. Can you imagine the outcry if any other group of people were singled out and forced to take such toxic drugs against their will?



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105724/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20717020



Quote:"Though weight gain is certainly a side effect of first generation antipsychotic drugs such as Thorazine, atypical antipsychotic medication induced weight gain is very different as it happens quickly, goes straight to the stomach, often without a person changing their diet or exercise level.

Research eventually showed that this weight gain is directly related to insulin resistance. This specific insulin related stomach fat leads to a myriad of risks for those who take the drugs including:

heart disease
stroke
diabetes
When you combine all of these risk factors together, the result is the word you are now very familiar with: metabolic syndrome."
https://www.healthyplace.com/diabetes/m ... -diabetes/

https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/as ... ormalities


On a side note, several of these articles indicate that the newer antipsychotics cause less tardive dyskinesia, and that simply is not accurate. I got akathisia and TD from taking Geodon, and a quick search on youtube for the words akathisia and tardive dyskinesia will show you that the newer antipsychotics are still very likely to produce both akathisia and TD as side effect. Any nueroleptic medication can cause them...


Quote: "The incidence and severity of extrapyramidal syndrome differ amongst these antipsychotics, but the fact is that these drugs have not lived up to the expectation regarding their tolerability."
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/656370/


Quote: "
Any drug capable of causing Extra Pyramidal Side effects (EPS) and Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) is by definition a neuroleptic, Latin for "seize the neuron.....To avoid EPS and potentially irreversible TD, neuroleptics must be used at the lowest possible doses, for the shortest possible duration, only when clearly indicated and when there is no safer alternative. Patients should be monitored closely and frequently for emerging symptoms using standardized movement rating scales. Possible side effects should be fully disclosed via written informed consent documents and the doctor should initiate an ongoing dialog about this topic with the patient. The doctor should consider alerting family members since they often become aware of movement disorders before the patient does."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/13702.php


As for informed consent, NO ONE WARNED ME at all about any of these potential side effects. I had to do my own research on the internet to find out about these side effects. I hope this thread will be helpful to someone trying to decide what they want to do, if they even have a choice.

I decided I would just add these videos back in for anyone reading this thread who may not be familiar with the antipsychotic side effects akathisia and tardive dyskinesia. I think before anyone is prescribed any antipsychotic, they should have to view these videos first. Words simply cannot do them justice....

anti-psych/topic196511.html

not antipsychotics but weight gain caused by antipsychotics can cause diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
solution is physical exercise. diet is difficult.

neyzen wrote:not antipsychotics but weight gain caused by antipsychotics can cause diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
solution is physical exercise. diet is difficult.

Simply not true. Did you read any of the research above? The antipsychotic meds cause METABOLIC SYNDROME: DIABETES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE.

Not just weight gain.

Quote from the research: " As confirmed here, the chronic effects of atypical antipsychotics on insulin sensitivity in rats can also be observed rapidly, supporting the conclusion that insulin resistance arises acutely in this model and is not simply secondary to changes in body composition or weight gain observed with chronic treatment.10,31,40 "

It is my opinion that for drugs that are so damaging to a person's physical health, that a person has the right to informed consent. These very dangerous drugs should never be forced on a person involuntarily.

Here is another study showing how these drugs cause diabetes and cardiovascular disease in rats. Not something I want to put in my body, and I should have the right to choose what goes into my own body. I am pro-choice.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245588/