Do anti-depressants cause bowel movements?

[laconicsax]

Stunning new research has revealed a smelly side effect of common SSRIs: Bowel movements. In the landmark study, nearly 100% of subjects taking SSRI anti-depressants reported bowel movements within 72 hours of taking the medication.

Read more: http://www.posthocergopropter.hoc/

Leave it to BIG PHARMA to make people have to shit. :crazy:

[panader0]

1. Doesn't this belong in the lounge?

72 hours???.....

[laconicsax]

11. This has just as legitimate a conclusion as other posts here. n/t

[haikugal]

2. Is this a joke?

[kentauros]

24. Yes, it is.

Re: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=247x32392

[laconicsax]

25. I thought it was pretty obvious

Seems I was grossly mistaken.

[HuckleB]

26. My wife has banned my ability to donate, so I can't respond to your other post.

Yes, your study is quite amusing. However, you did pick a selected population, well known to you, making the outcome fairly predictable to you.

And yet I'm still :rofl:

[elleng]

3. No.

B.S. (Pardon the pun.)

Took the stuff for years; no such results.

[laconicsax]

12. Are you saying that you didn't defecate for years?

:shrug:

[elleng]

13. Not caused by the stuff; same patterns as before.

[laconicsax]

14. You mean that correlation doesn't mean causation?!?

[elleng]

17. Well waddya know? You a scientist?

:rofl:

[Pab Sungenis]

4. The rules state that in a clinical trial

everything that happens after taking a drug ends up listed as a potential side effect.

When I was in my clinical trial of antidepressants one of the two drugs listed "depression" as a side effect, and the other listed "death."

[baldguy]

5. I thought they were caused by eating.

You know - like food?

[EvolveOrConvolve]

6. Absolutely - they cause

both diarrhea and constipation. At the same time!

And autism. Can't forget teh autism.

[Golden Raisin]

7. Michelle Bachmann does.

[TheMadMonk]

8. Go google dihydrogen monoxide. /nt

[pnwmom]

9. Last I heard that was a good thing. nt

[Odin2005]

10. LOL!

[trotsky]

15. I *love* that this is flying over more heads than a 747.

:rofl:

[laconicsax]

19. Seriously. n/t

[Chemisse]

16. Wouldn't it be a side effect if they DIDN'T have a bowel movement

within 72 hours?

[HuckleB]

18. I love to note how humor is lost on the usual subjects.

[LeftishBrit]

20. Well, come to think of it...

everyone I know who's taken antidepressants has had a bowel movement from time to time. Amazing coincidence!

[Kennah]

21. Am I correctly extrapolating that depressed people are not full of shit?

[LaurenG]

22. Really. Your studies are obviously flawed

I can't find mention of a control group...:hide:















and you made me laugh. :rofl:

[bemildred]

23. I think eating causes bowel movements too. nt