Posted by Lou Pilder on March 17, 2003, at 15:55:20
In reply to Lou's reply to leeann's post-2B, posted by Lou Pilder on March 17, 2003, at 15:37:36
leeann,
The next aspect of the discontinuation road is to make a choice at the beginning of your journey. When you start, there are two different roads that you have a choice to follow. One road's thought says that your systems are in a toxic state from the psychotropic drugs and that the tocicity from the drugs must be dissipated immediatly in order to stop any further harm to your systems from the drugs and, possibly, have your systems restored to what they were before the drugs entered your systems. That means complete cessation of the drugs will be the road that one would follow. This is how I percieved the situation when I was prescribed psychotropic drugs and so I looked at it as if a house was on fire, I was not going to throw any more fuel on it, for I believed that if I did , then the toxicity would continue and possibly get worse. So I chose the road that some people call [cold turkey]. The other road is to lookat the situationas gradually decending , decreasing the drug in some pattern so that you reach zero amount of the drug. This sound [sweet in theory], but could it be [sour in practice?]. There is also a way to cross over from one road to the other and some psychotropic drugs are advised to use the gradual method of discontinuation.
Lou
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