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I have been taking Serzone since about 1999 or 2000 approximately - can't be sure of the year I started taking it. I was taking Paxil before it and before that I had taken Prozac. I was taken off Prozac in 1996 because I developed eosenophilic pneumonia and I almost died. My doctor told me that there had been 2 other reported cases of same type of pneumonia. It was with a great shock and sadness that I discovered 3 days ago the rather old news about Serzone, the class action lawsuits etc. I had to have surgery in 2002 because I was diagnosed as having a lesion or a tumor in my liver. Throughout all this traumatizing event in my life, I kept telling all my physicians about the medications I was taking. No one ever mentioned the possibility that Serzone may be a factor. The tumors (there turned out to be two of them, an adenoma and a hemangioma) were benign and I was grateful for that. Then in November 2003, I was rear-ended while stopped at a red light in a car accident. I was transported to hospital by ambulance; after this accident, my primary physician sent me for a CT Scan to make sure I wasn't bleeding internally. Lucky for me I wasn't. Throughout all these events, I still continued taking Serzone, except that now I was taking the generic one by the name Nefazodone. Then in July 2004 I started feeling tired; having constant urination, especially at night, itching, in general, I had a sense of "not being well" so I went back to my primary physician who sent me once again for blood work. He called me back with results that said my liver enzymes were high and he referred me back to the liver clinic where I'd been seen for my surgery in 2002. Last December I saw a hepatologist who took down my medical history and decided I needed to have blood work for next 3 months. Once she received the results of my first blood work, she sent a report to my physician explaining that it was necessary for me to have blood work for 6 months instead of 3. Now, I feel very sad, depressed and helpless. I have a psychiatrist who prescribed this medication to me, knew about all the problems I've had and started having again after car accident and he NEVER once mentioned concerns about Serzone. Ditto for my primary physician. Ditto for the liver surgeon who operated. Ditto for the hepatologist; ditto for the gastroenterologist. What went wrong here? How is it possible that I came to find out about this a few days ago while reading a copy of People's Magazine? Can someone tell me why and how so many people simply dropped the ball? I feel guilt also; yes, guilt because somehow I think I should have known about this. The reason I feel this way I think is because when my primary physician called me to tell me that I had a tumor in my liver, he had dropped the ball as had I because I had gone to see him in December 2001 and I had a sonogram and a CT Scan and two months went by before he called me to give me the test results and I accepted my part of the blame for not having called his office to inquire regarding those test results. Had the tumor/s been malignant, two months is a long time and many things could change. I could have died but I accepted my share of responsibility in that instance. What about this one?