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Apr 11, 2009, 02:10 AM
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As title says i hat depending on meds. I want to be free, but everytime
i stop meds and try i really go downhill. I am doing dialectical online courses which help but i'd luv to be free of meds...they make me feel a faliour & that i should with all my courses be able to break free but i still need them so much bu***r. Love to hear from people going through similar. Roxyanne1 
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Apr 11, 2009, 10:14 AM
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I too hate depending on meds but I tried to go cold turkey with benzos and thrust me, it should not be done! Now I am working with my doctor and pharmacist to wean off them slowly but surely. We are trying different things and it scares me because I eventually really want to be off everything, but I guess one day at a time it will happen and if I have to take some for the rest of my life (anti-depressants) I just have to live with it! But I have learned in the last month that I should also educate myself to know what my doctor prescribed because He is not perfect and makes mistakes.
I hope you feel better and talk to your doctor of therapist about how you feel. 
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Apr 11, 2009, 01:09 PM
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please, please get as much feedback and take the advice from those u can trust. it has taken me years to get the right meds and obey they instructions so they work 4 me. i hate that i might hafta take'm 4ever! i too am working on ways to manage some of the symptoms by alternative means, however am convinced, finally that am only able to be the 'really me' when i take'm right. it feels dicouraging that we cant be like others who seem 2 cope so easily.. be grateful tho, take care of u!
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Apr 16, 2009, 01:39 PM
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Meds are a sore spot for me. I don't seem to react in predictable ways when medicated. Part of it has been getting a solid diagnosis too. I've learned that over the 20+ years of on and off therapy I've had, I might have been given meds that actually made things worse for me. I keep a meds journal now and that has been more productive. I ask my pdoc a lot of questions about my medicine too, I try to be proactive and involved. I can share with my pdoc, I'm taking X meds at X dosage and it's been doing this, I can see trends. Even with all the attempts at trying to get meds that work for me I keep trying. In my local group we've shared about how meds just take the edge off. They aren't a cure all by any means. But when one is feeling really really lousy a little help something to trim the high highs and the low lows is welcome even if it is just a hope for something compatible. I try to trust my pdoc, have patience with the process, I'm still bitter. All meds I've tried have side effects. There's always that balance between benifit and side effect. That is so true for me too, I'm worse without meds now.
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Apr 16, 2009, 03:21 PM
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I also hate takiing meds HATE it, Im up to 19 pills a day. they meke me sick to my tummy sometimes, dizzt just not myself. of course I have been diagnosed with a number of things as well as some medical proplems. We just have to keep taking them, everyday, just tell yourself its whats best for YOU!! one of my diagnoses if boardline personality disorder, but I have to saay its the 1 I least understand. But all I can do is listen to the docs and taake my meds You take yours too OK??Always hear to talk Roxy
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Apr 17, 2009, 12:07 AM
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Hi roxyanne1
I've been on meds for years. I think I found the right cocktail in the past 5 years. I just look at it as if I had a physcial condition. Heart problems, diabetes, I would take meds. I hate popping pills, but life would be absolutely horrendous without them! Good luck, Dee
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Apr 18, 2009, 08:21 PM
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Hi roxyanne. I hate being on meds too. It makes me feel like crap but also it makes me feel like I have something wrong with me.
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Dx: PTSD, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Personality Disorder. A Do Da Quantkeeah A-da-nv-do |
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May 18, 2009, 03:02 PM
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Hi Roxianne,
I hate being on meds, and have a history of quitting treatment suddenly once I feel good enough to think i've got a handle on things again. I'm going to try my best to stay in therapy this time, once i find a new one. Sometimes it becomes a question of: Which is worse, a handful of prescription mindbenders every day, or another day of the stagnant and fractured remains of what life has become? |
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