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Originally Posted by 99fairies
Iv'e been home from the hospital for a few weeks now, after being there for 3 months. I went in on 2 meds, came home on 13. The magic pill seems to be the Haldol. But I'm scared to start going off the other meds because what I'm on now is working wonders. I don't want to mess that up. It's just so hard to know what to wean myself off of when I don't know what helping and what's not. I would never do any of this on my own, only with doctors supervision. But how is he supposed to know either?
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I would go slowly with a pdoc’s help. I think it might be best to give it 2, 3 months back home and being stable before tapering. It is hard to know where to start the taper, but a good pdoc should be able to help. You definitely want a pdoc who changes one thing at a time, monitors that change and the results in your mood/behavior before starting another taper.
All that being said, God, I am on a ton of meds, thanks to using the state’s free/sliding scale mental health system when I was in college and grad school.
I did get off them eventually before attempting to become pregnant, but I was struggling a lot. By the end of my pregnancy, the OB had me on Zoloft and Xanax and putting myself on a waiting list to see a pdoc maybe 3 weeks postpartum.
I am certain I was not helped by constant SSRIS for over 10 years.
And then if there is a sucky, unfortunate, sometimes even bizarre traumatic event, it seems to find me, to pile on more garbage.
I do want to get on fewer meds, but I want to be stable first and also in a less stressful financial situation.
Without the meds, I would be worse though. I am pretty sure of that.