Yikes, I am so sorry about the dental injury. That sounds terrible.

As for meds. No, I am not your doctor. That said...the number of meds you're taking sounds excessive.

As some others have pointed out when so many meds are involved one creates problems for another and no one knows what's really going on.

I just experienced a brief, but horrifying IP (posted about it on the IP board here). As a result of that experience I am definitely committed to dropping 2 of my meds. I was thinking about doing so before the IP nightmare, but now I'm positive about my choice. I fully believe that psychiatry is far from a safe practice. Pdocs are controlling people's lives by creating the dependence of patients upon the psychiatry system. We are acquiring serious health problems - high bp, cardiac issues, diabetes, etc. - and dying earlier deaths because we're eating bottles and bottles of medication that we quite possibly don't need.

I'm not saying that everyone should ditch their meds. What I'm advocating for is that patients must question, and question again, why. Why am I being given this? What kind of long-term effects does it have? And - so important - talk with other patients. Because pdocs either don't know or they're lying about many med effects.

If I would have known, for example, that I would have gained 100lbs on Seroquel I never, under any circumstances, would have touched my first bottle of that poison.

I'm seeing my pdoc tomorrow and it's going to be either she listens to what I am going to do or bye-bye. I'll find a different pdoc. I am unyielding, at this point. I'll stay, for now, on Lamictal because it is helping with bipolar depression. I'll remain on a fairly low dose of Gabapentin because it helps with chronic pain and anxiety. I'm stuck with Klonopin because I'm physically addicted to it. But the Seroquel poison - I'm almost off of it; the same with Paxil. I've decided that, for me, 3 meds is plenty. More than enough, in fact. Any more than that and I feel far too imprisoned by a very questionable, and potentially dangerous, psychiatry system.