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Old Oct 30, 2010, 11:18 AM
sane1logic1 sane1logic1 is offline
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It's up to you to take the responsibility of discussing it with your doctor but in a "peer review" (I like the phrase) we can suggest ideas or principles around which you might choose to structure your thoughts.

There may be a risk that you may find you do less well in some respect or other if one or more of these were to be stopped. I'm a firm believer in a combination of meds rather than only one.

We really are all very different from each other.

At least you sound generally positive about meds, unlike those who have a blanket idea about them and are determined to stop them altogether - those people I nearly always hear later, went through a ruinously bad patch after.

Some doctors forget to communicate and I think you could ask him/her to explain what the goal is of each one, what is the goal of the dosage, and how well you are responding to it in his/her observation.

You are taking five excepting any klonopin on top which you don't always have, so you know what difference klonopin makes. Does taking five make the task of monitoring your own response too complicated? Which four would it be good to choose if it came to only having four? Maybe you need five really.

The other thing that is usually forgotten is dosage. Maybe you just need the dosage of the odd one tweaked either upwards or downwards.

I take 2,100 mg gabapentin (mainly to manage my nerve pain and the absences I was having) and 1 mg risperidone daily. I go to AA and talk to my AA sponsor but not often enough. Without gabapentin I get the "frazzles" (as well as worse nerve pain) and without the risperidone my thinking seems narrower. I have periodic bouts of excessive depression which I used to take the odd rhodiola rosea pill for (it took the edge off it), but I've run out of those.