Posted by bleauberry on April 21, 2011, at 16:54:51
In reply to How am I different to a drug addict?, posted by huxley on April 21, 2011, at 0:53:32
There isn't any difference except in the way it is phrased to be politically correct. Abusive drugs cause withdrawals. But nonabusive drugs cause "discontinuation syndrome". Same darn thing. Stupid play on words by the elite.
I guess there is only one difference I can think of....with the abusive drugs there is the craving for the next dose. Not just the need for it, but a powerful craving. With zyprexa, if you crave it at all it is just to end the agony but not a real craving.
I came off 5mg after being on it 8 years. My advice to anyone else is to take the dose downward in very tiny steps and don't set a timeframe on it. Let the journey itself guide you. If you dropped the dose in too big of a step or too rapidly, you will for sure feel it.
It took me about 3 months to get off it. I used a pill splitter to cut a pill in half. And then a razor blade to shave a tiny corner off the half. If my dose was the full pill, then my new dose was the full half along with the other half that has a tiny chunk missing off the corner. Over time the chunks you cut off and throw away get bigger until you're down to a half a pill. Keep going that way. Eventually that tiny crumb you cut off on the first day, well, a crumb about that same size is all you will be taking in the ending days of gentle taper down.
Someone else might be able to do it much faster than I did. I'm just sharing the way it went with me.
In any case, yeah, drop the dose too fast and it feels like a withdrawal because it is. Your body has come to depend on the zyprexa molecule and freaks out if it is all of a sudden missing.
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