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Default Sep 26, 2019 at 11:23 PM
 
Hey, @Webster12. Thanks for sharing a bit of your story. I stopped all my meds in 2012 while in a very long (more than a year) hospitalization. For six months I felt like 8 million bucks. Then, one day, I sat down on my bed to try to relax and had a massive panic attack. Soon, I was in a full-on mixed recurrence of my bp 1. It was awful.

Not sure what your medication and illness situation is exactly, but it is pretty clear for some of these illnesses that the recurrence rate for folks who d/c their meds is quite high. Some of those recurrences can be severe. You seem quite convinced about what you are doing, but I would second the remarks about talking to your pdoc about maybe changing up your regimen, rather than just stopping everything. It can be quite risky, Be well!!

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