stopped a med.

So, I randomly decided to stop taking one of my meds yesterday. Well, it was only one night that I skipped. I'm still taking my depression med, but this other med that I took to help me sleep I stopped. Hopefully the sleep problems don't come back, but the med just made me so drowsy. And I've taken it different times in the past few years and I never really liked taking it.

So now I'm just waiting to see how things go. I have the med so if I want to start taking it again I can, but I just wanted to experiment a little, since it's break now and I don't have school to worry about. Maybe not the best idea, because then if I do start taking it again when school starts up again it will mean I'll have to get used to it again, but I don't think this med takes too long to kick in.

Waiting to see how things go. I did have trouble falling asleep last night, but I figured that it was mostly because I slept pretty late in the morning (because of the drowsiness from the med) and so that it was pretty natural that I wasn't tired yet. I've been doing really good about working out lately, and I'm going to try to keep my workout routine up, because I think this might help me to be more tired in the evening.

Good luck.

I'm on medication for OCD & I take a prescription sleep medication, too. I want off the sleep medication because it makes me drowsy, but yet I feel like I'm addicted to it; it helps me sleep even better. My psychiatrist won't let me off of it & says it's not psychologically addictive. I see her again next month (I'm overdue for an appt. because I'm an hour & a half away at school, which is obviously over for the semester), & I will bring it up again.

Please don't just stop taking it without talking to your doctor/psychiatrist first. Believe me, I'm tempted to do the same but I know I shouldn't. I can relate somewhat to your post.

Hey guys, thanks for the comments. I took my med again tonight. I think it probably wasn't the best idea to just stop my medicine on my own like that. I think I was probably just feeling very rebellious. Still am kind of feeling that way, but I realized that taking my medicine seemed important. I didn't want to risk another night of less than quality sleep. Thanks for your words posted here.

I'm glad you're back on them.

I would talk to your prescribing doctor about it =)
I'm sure you get some input