Posted by babyface on January 12, 2002, at 14:21:53
In reply to Re: WARNING!!! OFF ALL MEDS?!!! » bob, posted by Simcha on January 12, 2002, at 12:33:16
Hi Bob,
I am wishing you luck with quitting all your meds and like people suggested maybe keeping the clonopin for a while sounds like a good idea.
I have been on and off on meds for at least ten years with many frustrating side effects and hopeful first couple of good feeling months only to fizzle out afterwards.
I have had periods of a year here and there of tolerable moods and then going off the meds mostly to get pregnant and have another child and hopeful that I could be off it forever.
But after three hospitalizations and severe depressions with months and months of frustrating finding the right combos and finding that the same drug that worked before suddenly did not do a thing this time around I decided to stick with it for life.
I have been in therapy off and on since age 18 and I must say it has helped me lots. I am 41 now!
I wish I did not have to be on meds but am scared to death(literally)of another major depression so I rather suffer some minor side effects.
This might not be to helpful a letter to you Bob, since you're considering of quitting the meds, sorry. But it is worth a try anyhow, since you are suffering physically so much.
Good luck to you!,
Rachel
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