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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse
Stopping all meds cold turkey without close medical supervision is dangerous and foolish, although bipolars do it all the time because we think we don't need them anymore. (And sometimes we're right.) I can't imagine why your doctor suggested that.
I don't know how many or what kind of meds you're taking, but going off them outside of a hospital where you can receive intensive monitoring? NOT a good idea. I think you need a second opinion immediately......your own pdoc seems not to have your best interests at heart.
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All the doctors I have seen are clueless. I have to stop the hypomania from becoming a full blown manic episode and also have to get the physical neurological symptoms under control.
I am not saying I am stopping them completely but just tapering one of them for a while to adjust the dose to a therapeutic level. That is how bipolar works. You don't just discontinue - you constantly have to tweak the meds. She has me on the wrong meds for bipolar anyway. Unfortunately last time I crashed I was not coherent enough for nine months to see what she had done to me.
I am going to do a slow taper with a lot of holds to just decrease the dosage of the one of my meds that is causing the mania to increase and the intensity of the physical neurological symptoms. Then I will do a long hold after the first three cuts and see what happens.
This doctor would have flipped me in to Sudden Serotonin Discontinuation and major depression if I had listened to her.