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Angel_Above
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Quitting psych meds 2
#23542101 - 08/14/16 08:21 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Any good stories from this? I've been slowly weaning off for personal reasons including I want to be able to feel emotions normally as I feel dull with them, I want to learn to process my own depression/bipolar (I don't agree with the bipolar aspect) mentality in a more healthy way than medication that is attempting to treat neurotransmitters when they can't outright even show me the connection of my neurotransmitters needing regulating.
If I had a low sodium level it would be advisable to take more sodium. If I had low iron, I would take iron. See what I mean?
A potential problem besides any mental thing would be I don't know if my PO is going to make sure I'm taking these meds.
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I would definitely discussing this with your PO and your clinician before you start lowering your dose. Especially if this is your first time coming off this med. I don't know how long, what type of how high the dose but quitting any psychiatric medication is a big decision that benefits from trained outside support. Also If you try it on your own and something happens it will make it harder for you to get off them in the future.
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I am weening myself off Lexapro, but I am on it voluntarily.
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Ive been on Lorazepam Tavor and Rispedal 3 weeks .
Dropping them cold turkey was hard
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kamykazi3
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i took antipsicotics for almost a year i started feeling schizophrenia syntoms aftet a wierd mushroom trip , i also quitted smoking weed and tobacco at the time , the meds made me feel emotionless and always tired , and i gained like 20 pounds very fast , and they were hard to lose even after the quit date , i reduced the dose slowly evry two weeks , i hope i dont need them again , stay away from them if you can !
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Re: Quitting psych meds [Re: kamykazi3]
#23562970 - 08/21/16 12:57 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was on risperdal for quite a while and it made me fat, tired, and emotionally numb. Quit that stuff and took a heroic dose of liberty caps a few weeks later, been doing fine since.
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I normally taper fast, but I'm really used to going on and off SSRIs. Takes about 2-3 weeks for full effects from psychedelics for me.
I usually take half for a couple days, then skip a day or two and take half one last time, and then go off it completely. I get side effects, but nothing I can't handle.
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Glameow

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Re: Quitting psych meds [Re: nooneman]
#23563318 - 08/21/16 03:54 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was on cymbalta for over 3 years when, I had had enough. I was getting withdrawal side effects as it wasn't lasting me the 24 hours. I figured since I was already getting the side effects, I'd taper off.
My GP refused to help me taper. (Wanted me to do so with a psychiatrist, which i would've had to wait 4 months to see). So i read online about tapering and did it myself, over 3 months. Was still rough. .cymbalta is horrid for withdrawal. Not too bad a med as antidepressants go though...
You know alot of doctors call the withdrawal symptoms "side effects"? And that apparently you can't get dependant on antidepressants. ..but don't stop them too quick or..you'll get "side effects"..I hate quack docs.
Edited by Glameow (08/26/16 07:09 AM)
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Spiralspider
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Re: Quitting psych meds [Re: Glameow]
#23575458 - 08/25/16 09:28 AM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'm afraid of psychs easiness to separate meds of is side effects. like they always say the problem is of your disease and not because of the meds you are taken. Since I started taking invega they are trying to convince me that I have a disease but I never felt symptoms of an actual schizophrenia or something. never heard nothing or had hallucinations and every time I say the med did this or that to me they say it's because I have a disease.
I feel the same as I was when I started and I only agreed to make the treatment because it was temporary and because it could make my life better so I imagined.
Actually the meds were benefitial because they took some of my anxiety away. Today I felt that for the first time I heard a voice when I was in bed after waking up still sleepy and maybe the meds are causing it.
And I'm sure that the doctor will have no problems to say that it's not because of invega but because I have a disease or something.
Mybe I should quit the invega until the appointment and lie to him saying I took the meds . The reason I will do that is because my parents blackmale me all the time saying if I dont take the meds they will leave me homeless or something. Oh my god. I hate them but I have always to be nice with them..In two weeks I will move out to another house surely
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eeso
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Invega isn't causing you to hear voices. You can't diagnose yourself because you can't have an objective view of your condition.
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Re: Quitting psych meds [Re: eeso]
#23576139 - 08/25/16 01:43 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Magic mushrooms, the answer is always magic mushrooms.
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Glameow

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Quote:
Spiralspider said: I'm afraid of psychs easiness to separate meds of is side effects. like they always say the problem is of your disease and not because of the meds you are taken. Since I started taking invega they are trying to convince me that I have a disease but I never felt symptoms of an actual schizophrenia or something. never heard nothing or had hallucinations and every time I say the med did this or that to me they say it's because I have a disease.
I feel the same as I was when I started and I only agreed to make the treatment because it was temporary and because it could make my life better so I imagined.
Actually the meds were benefitial because they took some of my anxiety away. Today I felt that for the first time I heard a voice when I was in bed after waking up still sleepy and maybe the meds are causing it.
And I'm sure that the doctor will have no problems to say that it's not because of invega but because I have a disease or something.
Mybe I should quit the invega until the appointment and lie to him saying I took the meds . The reason I will do that is because my parents blackmale me all the time saying if I dont take the meds they will leave me homeless or something. Oh my god. I hate them but I have always to be nice with them..In two weeks I will move out to another house surely
What if the invega is allowing you to know that what you're hearing is an audible hallucination? What if before the invega..you couldn't tell the difference between real and hallucination? Hence, it seems like the invega is causing the hallucinations. ..only it's actually that you've become aware of them.
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Re: Quitting psych meds [Re: Glameow]
#23587515 - 08/28/16 04:38 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fortunatly the audio hallucination maybe was just a sleep/dream repercussion because it was an isolated occasion.
My point of my previous post was that psych doctors just have one option. They are not very predisposed to see you without medication after you started taking it they're options are always or to augment your dosage or to switch you to other medicine; The only solution for you seems to be to rebel against them: not encouraging it, just saying what's in pratice your option. And IMO the psychs idea of an healed person (if there is one doctor that believes in it) is the one who no more bitches them about side effects or pains caused by the meds whether they are emotional or physical or minded ones. Thats why.....I say... they will only set me free of medications when I'm fat,and dont care anymore being fat, without free-opinion, because antipsychotics made my mind so uninteresting that I dont formulate opinions anymore, and so tortured by side effects, that they seem normal to me after time... ---And that taken its time its the complete neutralization of a person's character.
I dont know ..but im looking foward to see if I get off these meds one day because they told me it was temporary.. but in other cases I've been seeing people that are promised to be with meds for one year and they extend with their consent the period to 5 ...10.. 12 years... I dunnow.. brain washes or not?
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Glameow

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It's almost never temporary unless you come off them. My GP refused to help me taper off psych meds, I had to do so myself.
And they do seem to use antidepressants for just about everything...
I won't touch antidepressants again personally. .. I'm in too minds in whether they helped or if life just changed so much at the same time that it's probably merely coincidence.
I refuse to take any medication that has weight gain as a side effect, as in my opinion that's messing with the bodys metabolism and doctors barely understand why.
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Stopping psych meds is the same as stopping any other mind altering drug.
Challenging, but doable.
I've tried many psch meds but I eventuality decided against this route.
I don't need drugs to be happy.
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Angel_Above
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I've been psych drug free for at least a week and a half now. Feeling good! No withdraws (I know how to wean myself off).
This is NOT advice for other people to quit their meds. Just sharing my experience.
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Alyssa
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Angel_Above said: I've been psych drug free for at least a week and a half now. Feeling good! No withdraws (I know how to wean myself off).
This is NOT advice for other people to quit their meds. Just sharing my experience.
Good for you! I hope you stay symptom-free as the drug makes its way out of your system and you go for longer and longer without it. I definitely don't recommend that anyone take psych meds except as a last resort. Personally, I take Abilify for bipolar disorder, but only because I tried for 15 years to go without medication and every single time I came off of it I went manic or depressed. Finally I just said fuck it, I'm not dealing with this anymore.
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Re: Quitting psych meds [Re: Alyssa]
#23619935 - 09/06/16 09:37 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Look if life is unbearable, go for antipsychotics.
If life is bareable, spend nights awake trying to emotionally purge - your psychotic symptoms may be relived by this.
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Alyssa
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beforethedawn said: Look if life is unbearable, go for antipsychotics.
If life is bareable, spend nights awake trying to emotionally purge - your psychotic symptoms may be relived by this.
Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it. My life was pretty damn unbearable. I've never gotten psychotic symptoms, but my mood was like a roller coaster. After a 7 month black hole depression that I had to use an SSRI to get out of (I'm off it now), I decided I would follow my psychiatrist's suggestion that I stay on the Abilify this time. It's not like other antipsychotics, it doesn't block any neurotransmitters.
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What did you take?
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