get off medication

i hate avanza (mirtazapine). it knocks me out. i can’t talk properly – slurring. i sleep all day. and cannot study.

is it bad to just stop the meds?

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I got off paxil after 11 years! It can be done with tapering and a doctors help.But, I needed valium to help. Now i am trying to get off that.

quit zoloft cold turkey after 3 years. no trouble at all. you have to really want to be without it though

I’ve been trying to do this for a while. I was taking paxil 30mg and stopped cold turkey. HOLY SHIT did that suck. I came home sick twice from work, throwing up and like passing out…but after 2 weeks it was all good. I felt a LOT better off the medication, i mean the stuff sucks the life right out of you. Now I’m on 3 medications: lamictal 150mg, bactrum ??, and zertec d. I’m working my way off lamictal and i should be off the bactrum soon! It’s just that I’ve been living with zertec for the past 10 years or so :\ Everytime i miss a dose i get rrrreeealllly bad allergies!

I just saw a promising video. It describes the tapping technique. It stimulates energy meridians similar to acupuncture. The principle is simple, when your energy is not in balance, you get symptoms… be it illness, allergies, anxiety, stress, etc.

I’m going to give it a try and see what happens. If you are also curious, google “tapping technique” and click on some of the results. Can’t hurt.

weaning, weaning, weaning.

nobody believes i can do it. mom thinks that i only think im better because of the meds and im just going to be back where i started once i stop.

weaning

i wish i hadn’t started taking cymbalta in the first place, simply because it seems so difficult to get off it now.

i experience extreme withdrawal symptoms (mainly what can only be described as electrical surges through my face every time i turn my head and end-of-the-world emotional breakdowns) after not taking my pills for 2 or 3 days…

I’m now down to 7, including Nasonex for wacky allergies that have cropped up.

..i haven’t been online because i just went a few steps back with a bit of a manic episode. I am on more medication now so its harder for me to concentrate. Hence am not replying to many mails.

But this too shall pass, and I’ll be my chatty self again. :)

Thanks for checking in on me and love,
Chitra

i’m on less medication now. in three months, if i don’t react aversely it will go down more. and maybe i’ll be off it by the end of the year!

then i can donate blood :)