YOu know what I think about your meds. I'll support you however you go but here's the thing: I know I do not process meds normally. I just gave blood for a clinical trial that is working to help work around this and later will give blood again and get my results for how I process my own meds. I've been on a LOT of meds. I've pushed dose limits as recently as a few days ago and some doctors would still not prescribe my Seroquel dose. I'm ok with it because I know that increasing from 900 mg to 1200 mg really helped me. Each of my now 6 psych meds has a role that makes sense in context. Two low dose mood stabilizers because I don't tolerate either well. High dose Seroquel. Adding in the new AP to help increase my AP coverage enough to make Seroquel a little more flexible. I've been on meds to offset side effects, both provigil and nuvigil. I cannot imagine taking a large dose of a stimulant to counter a sedative dose when I was also taking stimulating meds.

If you look through all the years of meds I've been on an off (65th cocktail right now) it has always been add something because of _____ (specific reason) and usually reduce something else because ________ (specific reason). Like now, I"m fairly sure as my loxapine goes up my Seroquel will come down more and we'll try to get rid of the low dose mood stabilizers. They both help but not a lot and there's no point in being on meds that can be covered by other meds.

Adding, adding and adding without explanations that scientifically make sense and using drugs that can trigger mania, several together, that would make me very anxious. Perhaps I'm just used to the approach my pdoc uses and if I were used to another way I wouldn't feel that way but I doubt it. Logic and explanationw of why and what happens next are really important to me.

Just because a relationship is long doesn't always mean it is healthy. My parents were married 25 years which was about 24.5 years too long.......