Posted by CareBear04 on January 10, 2005, at 22:17:20
In reply to Re: tired of meds » johnnystats, posted by Phillipa on January 9, 2005, at 15:32:39
hey all,
this is exactly how i feel-- i'm so sick of all the meds, sick of experimenting and being experimented on, and sick of being so doped up that i can't function. lately, i've been losing track of time so that i go through whole days and forget that they happened so that i woke up on sat thinking it was friday. right now i'm on a shitload of stuff, and the prospects of getting off look bleak. zoloft, lamictal, prozac, xanax, klonopin, ambien, percocet, phenergan, zofran, haldol, adderall, and others. i don't have a clue as to what is doing what, whether i'm sicker as a result of being so overmedicated or whether i'm doing better and need the drugs. it's now almost exactly two years since i first tried a psych med, and in those two years, i've been through at least two dozen if not more-- most of the new ADs, most all the mood stabilizers, all but one of the new antipsychotics and some of the old, almost all antianxiety and sleeping pills, etc. i'm only 22, and i can only hope that they come up with better drugs in the future or that i somehow grow out of needing meds. every dr is concerned that i'm on so many drugs at a young age, but no one can help me get off them. i don't dare go cold turkey because the one time i did do that, i had horrible effexor withdrawals and started rapid cycling my way into a huge lithium OD and a bad hospital stay. i feel better finding this post and knowing that other people are in the same place as i am. thanks.
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