Does Risperidone Flatten Your Mood?
General information Risperidone is a medication which is classified as an antipsychotic and is predominantly used to treat mental health issues such as schizophrenia. Other indications for the use of...
Steroid Injections Can Upset the Menstrual Cycle
It's not unusual for women to experience changes in their menstrual cycles after receiving steroid shots. Usually the change is more bleeding, but some steroids are used in low doses...
Back Pain After Epidurals During Delivery of a Baby
It's not unusual for women to have back pain during pregnancy, during delivery, and after the baby is born. Usually this is simply a matter of carrying more weight, first...
People On Abilify Usually Gain Weight On Abilify and Other Atypical Antipsychotics
Abilify, which is the trade name for a drug called aripiprazole, is an add-on treatment for adults whose medications for depression aren't enough. It's given to adults and pediatric patients...
Steroid Injections May Cause Vaginal Or Uterine Bleeding
Women who notice vaginal, cervical, or uterine bleeding after getting steroid shots aren't just imagining their symptoms. Both women still in their reproductive years and women who have passed menopause...
Side Effects Of Symbicort
Symbicort is a very popular drug for asthma that is actually a combination of two drugs, budesonide, which is a steroid used to relieve inflammation, and formoterol, which is a...
Side Effects of Flonase and Other Steroid Nasal Sprays
Even though the medication wasn't FDA-approved until 2014, it almost immediately became the best selling product nasal decongestant. It is more popular than Benadryl, more popular than Mucinex (despite the ads...
Coming Off Seroquel
Seroquel, which is also available under its generic name quetiapine, is in class of drugs known as "atypical antipsychotics." It is a very commonly prescribed, possibly over-prescribed medication for adults who...
Removing Injected Silicone
First of all, for anyone out there who is considering a silicone injection but hasn't had it done yet, please don't. There are just too many things that can go...
Wellbutrin for Weight Loss
Modern antidepressants are notorious for causing weight gain. The SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors), a group of medications including Celexa (citalopram), Lexapro (escitalopram), Luvox (fluvoxamine), Paxil (paroxetine), Prozac (fluoxetine), and Zoloft...