Hi Tigger. I agree that sometimes it's hard to know. I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't always blame everything on medication, but it can be the medications.

Question: You wrote that you recently had a medication dose change. 1) Has that change started to achieve what it was meant to achieve? 2) Was the increase or reduction a rather big one?

Regarding the above, if the change in your dose has achieved nothing, do let your psychiatrist know that and the flu-like symptoms you're experiencing. If it is helping, consider asking if maybe the adjustment was too much too fast. Could adjusting it (up or down) more slowly prevent discomfort? Some psychiatrists make the mistake of too big of changes. There are sometimes withdrawal effects from big reductions and adjustments to big increases. I don't know what medication you are even talking about. I can tell you that I've had flu-like symptoms from too quick reductions of meds like benzos and certain antipsychotics.