Posted by Ponder on March 28, 2003, at 23:44:10
In reply to Meds and all that jazz, posted by BarbaraCat on March 19, 2003, at 23:33:36
Hello BarbaraCat, Krissy and others on this thread!
I'd like to address the frustrating topic of meds being added, results being equivocal, other things being added, and nothing ever being substracted. Anyone else have this problem? Pretty soon I find myself on a bunch of things and wondering if any of them are actually helping. I do better for a while then get bad again and wonder why I'm taking 4 different meds and 6 different supplements and light therapy and psychotherapy and here I am depressed again. Can't help but wonder if the illness just cycles (it IS Bipolar II) and I would have felt exactly the same without all this stuff. But I become afraid to stop taking it because I think, gosh, maybe it could be way worse than this and this, lord knows, is bad enough. So, there you go. And are p-docs much help? Well, not in my experience. They seem to sit there poised with pen and Rx pad waiting for me to tell them what to prescribe.
Like many people on the board, I am sometimes tempted to wean off of all pharamceuticals and try massive doses of exercise, yoga, meditation, whatever. How do we go about answering the question..are these pills really doing any good?
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