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Re: Has anyone ever heard.....? » ronaldo

Posted by tensor on November 5, 2006, at 6:52:20

In reply to Has anyone ever heard.....?, posted by ronaldo on November 5, 2006, at 6:13:06

>Would it be possible to start from scratch - to taper off all medications - to start from the beginning again?

>I realise that it might be necessary to take new medications to taper off the old ones. I suppose it could take a year or more to complete the process.

I have been thinking about this. It's a difficult situation. You could either add one med to your regime and you *might* recover in two to six weeks , or you could potentially waste six months on tapering off all your meds, start with new ones and end up at square one.
A part of the problem is that i don't have a year to spend at testing different meds and combos, i'm not getting younger, i want full remission now, i take the side effects.

>Do any of you out there feel the same way and long for a 'holiday' off all the medications? I reckon in some cases this 'holiday' could turn into a permanent way of life - free from medications - YIPPEE!!!

It would certainly be interesting to see how i would function without all my meds, at least the AD's. I think my anxiety would be too difficult so i think i would still need clonazepam. It was actually the anxiety that was the problem i was first treated for.
However, i do think i have some sort of deficiency or imbalance in my brain, i don't think i've been 100% well in my entire life. As a child and as a teenager i was often tired, i had poor appetite, was underweight. I had a constant fear inside me, some form of paranoia.
When i was given Remeron around the age of 20, it was extremely activating, i started to grow, both in length and in weight, i gained 20kgs that summer and i was not overweight. Remeron made me more confident and i could focus on a task and felt very motivated. It felt like remeron(or the substances it produced) was the substance my body lacked since i was born.

I have given up trying to figure out what i need to feel better. I just pick one med. As Scott(SLS) once told me, "you can't outsmart the brain", which pretty much concludes this.

/Mattias


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