[99fairies]

I was fine with taking all those drugs for about a month. Nothing has changed, but I feel very tired and have no motivation. Also my dystonia is back and it makes it really hard to move around. I had dental surgery and they severed a nerve. So I have no feeling in half of my face. It's just been a rough couple of weeks. I don't want to be on 15 different meds anymore. This is just too much.

[Sunflower123]

((((( 99fairies )))))
I’m sorry you are having a tough time.

[99fairies]

I'm tempted to just flush all my meds but I don't want to end up back in the hospital.

[Sunflower123]

Originally Posted by 99fairies

I'm tempted to just flush all my meds but I don't want to end up back in the hospital.

That’s a good statement. Can they do anything about the severed nerve? I’m really sorry that happened to you.

[99fairies]

They said if it lasts 6 months, it will be permanent.

[Sunflower123]

Originally Posted by 99fairies

They said if it lasts 6 months, it will be permanent.

That’s awful. My fingers are crossed that you get the feeling back. You really didn’t need that on top of everything else.

Originally Posted by 99fairies

I was fine with taking all those drugs for about a month. Nothing has changed, but I feel very tired and have no motivation. Also my dystonia is back and it makes it really hard to move around. I had dental surgery and they severed a nerve. So I have no feeling in half of my face. It's just been a rough couple of weeks. I don't want to be on 15 different meds anymore. This is just too much.

Sending hugs to you, too

I'm sorry to read that your dystonia is back and that your dental surgery resulted in a severed nerve. That sucks! Do you know if/when the nerve will somehow "repair itself", if that's possible?

Fifteen medications is indeed a ship load of medications. If I recall correctly, didn't you write recently that that cocktail contains multiple moodstabilizers and multiple antipsychotics? If so, I can imagine that you could be very sedated/tired from them. Low motivation definitely comes with over sedation, if not also with some depression.

No matter which psychiatrist you are seeing (IOP/PHP or your regular outpatient psychiatrist), perhaps it's time to ask him/her if anything could be eliminated to improve your situation. There was a time when I was on 3 moodstablizers and 3 antipsychotics, plus a benzo all at the very same time. Unfortunately it took kidney damage to finally get my psychiatrist to eliminate one of the moodstabilizers (obviously Lithium), but when he did, slowly, my quality of life actually improved. One of the antipsychotics was stopped because of dystonia. One of my remaining antipsychotic dosages had to go up, but that was OK. Then one of the two remaining antipsychotics gave me severe akathisia. I lived with that for a while, but eventually it had to go. It was rough going off that second of two remaining antipsychotics, but I managed with some hikes in the dosage of my last remaining antipsychotic (Seroquel XR). Now I'm only on two moodstabilizers and one antipsychotic. Progress and better quality of living. It takes time to prune them, but it can happen.

[MickeyCheeky]

((((99fairies)))) I'm so sorry you're struggling. Can you talk to your doctor for a change of meds?

[99fairies]

Yes, I see him on the 22nd. I'm gonna ask him if we can cut some of these meds out.

[Guiness187055]

My Doctor just eliminated my remoron, seroquel, lithium, and valium. The withdrawls suck but I am happy to be off of these pills.

Good luck at your doctor's appointment

[liveforsummer]

I hope your appointment goes well on the 22nd!
Sending hugs

[Victoria'smom]

You are om a lot of meds. Hopefully pdoc will listen.

[still_crazy]

there's an art to appropriate psych drug treatment. when i got a new/different psych at the clinic, he dropped my as needed gabapentin and one of the anti-seizure drugs for mood. im doing much, much better...oddly enough, dropping the 1 anti-seizure drug meant I had less agitation, less need for the gabapentin. sometimes..too much can create a vicious cycle. at any rate...

its always good to try to minimize Rx and OTC drug intake, not just the psych stuff. I hope a doctor will work with you to create a daily line up you can deal with and that gets the job done...

[*Laurie*]

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.