In this stuttering medications' section of our website, I will talk about the effects of stuttering medications on your health. There are two primary reasons why I do not want you to turn to stuttering medications for help with your stuttering. The first and the main reason is that all medications have numerous side effects. Our conventional medicines will slowly destroy your health. This is something that you will not be able to get back. Let's look at some of these side effects that are very common. In another words, they are sure to occur at an onset of treatment. These side effects are as follow: weight gain; constipation; dryness of mouth; blurred vision; headache; nausea or vomiting; decreased sexual ability; increased sensitivity of skin to sun (skin rash, itching, severe sunburn, and/or discoloration of skin); drowsiness. Based on my extensive experimentation with almost all conventional medications, I can say with certainty that you will experience some or all of them within the first two weeks of your treatment. Please note that I will discuss how our Natural Therapy for Stuttering program does not produce any side effects mentioned here later.
The following stuttering medications’ side effects are more than likely to occur as your treatment progresses: difficult breathing, unusual tiredness or weakness, severe muscle stiffness, loss of bladder control, fever, and/or irregular heart beat.
When are you likely to experience those side effects? Typically, if you will continue to use your stuttering medications for two or three months, you will experience them. Are you ready for more serious side effects of your stuttering medications? Here, they are...convulsions (seizures); high fever; high or low blood pressure; unusually pale skin; confusion; uncontrolled twisting movements of neck, trunk, arms, or legs; unusual bleeding or bruising; unusual facial expressions or body positions; trembling of fingers and hands; uncontrolled movements of the mouth, tongue, and jaw and many more. It will take you two, three, or four months to experience at least some of them. When the psychiatrist was asked about what will happen to a person after using these medications for a long time, he could even tell. You see all pharmaceutical manufacturers only conduct their trial studies of medications for a limited period of time. There is no scientific data that will tell you what illnesses you will acquire three or four years from taking these stuttering medications for a long period of time.
By the way, many people asked me if the drugs actually worked for me. I will tell you they did. No matter which drugs or medications I used, I noticed serious side effects sooner or later. I used Zoloft for a significant period of time. I felt like a zombie most of time. I used Paxil as well. It had a similar action on me. I got my hands on Xanax. I almost became addicted to it. This drug has a very calming effect on a person. Nevertheless, it is a highly addictive medication. I also used Propranolol. I constantly had an upset stomach and began to gain weight because it had an effect on my water retention. I only stayed with it for several months.
During the middle of my experimentation, I used Buspar and Elavil with some success. Both medicines improved my moods greatly. I have been depressed all my life. I did not think they had too much impact on my speech disorder. They relieved my anxiety to a certain degree. Since I did not notice any positive effect, I discontinued them. Later, I convinced my doctor to put me on Cloimipramine and Klonopin. I could not eat anything because I had an upset stomach all the time. My experiments with these two medicines lasted only two weeks. I could not tolerate this side effect any longer. After a short break, it was time to try other medications. I got my hands on Celexa. I kept improving fast. However, nasty side effects reappeared again. I got scared and stopped using it.
As you can understand from this discussion, there was not even one medicine I had tried without any side effect. With time, side effects tend to "grow" in strength and become more bothersome. They do destroy one's health. You see you body is not a factory for processing medications. Also, please understand I am not against our conventional medicines. I believe under some circumstances, using pharmaceuticals might be necessary. However, a person should always be open-minded to explore alternatives.
The second reason why you should not take any medication to treat your stuttering is because every medicine is extremely expensive. I always said that you need to be wealthy in our society to use our conventional medicines or you need to have a great medical insurance. However, medical insurances will not cover any drug treatment for this condition. Thus, you are to bear all expenses, and there will be plenty of those if you decide to go this route. For instance, when I was taking Zoloft, I had to pay $ 200-250 (USD) each week to continue my routine. As I said earlier, many people will need to combine two or three medications in order to achieve a satisfactory level of fluency. If this will be your case, then you are probably looking at spending approximately $300-350 each week just to use this combination. Oh, I almost forgot. The doctor needs to eat too. You will be visiting your psychiatrist or your family doctor once per three weeks to extend your prescription and to be reevaluated again. This additional expense will come out to be $50-75 per three weeks. Listen, you are NOT LIKELY to stay with these medications anyway if you have such high expenses from purchasing them.
When I used stuttering medications, I constantly thought of discontinuing them. I felt depressed when I was on them. They were only "masking" the symptoms of stuttering without necessarily solving the problem. However, using stuttering drugs is one of two main ways of dealing with this disorder successfully. I do believe that not many people can use them for long. These people either cannot afford them or they simply cannot stand side effects associated with them.
At this point of time, you may be asking me if there are any alternative treatments that do not have my previously mentioned side effects of conventional stuttering medications and still can treat stuttering problem effectively. The answer to your question is YES. There are many so-called natural stuttering medications that can be used for stuttering. Homeopathic medicines and flower essences are just to name a few.
