[Lexi232]

so ive not really made up my mind yet or not. im still trying to think this through.
recently i have had a major treatment care plan change, that im not too thrilled about. but within it, is that pretty much im on my own except for when in the office (no groups, no meetings, no transportation, no help with just being and learning how to socialize, and a lot of other things stopped as well). but i pretty much only take my meds so i can be verbal and less autistic. im fine off of my meds when its just me. and since i will only be seeing anyone once a week or every 2-3 weeks, it doesnt make sense to me to take the meds that puts a daily strain on my body. but if i were to not agree with the care plan, i doubt they would let me just say no to everything else but 1 or 2 of the services.
i have tried to stop "cold turkey" before on these meds. only 1 med at a rime. then i tried only slowly breaking off of a med at a time, but i can seem to get past the 3rd day of withdrawls from just one of the four meds i take. how on earth do people get off of these meds? lol
vyvanse (40mg) i can stop cold turkey, but the viibryd (20mg), seroquel (50mg), and lamictal (100mg) are not the same. meds in my past i could just stop and be okay. it wasnt until my 20s that i had to be weenied off due to serious side effects or just plain miserable feeling side effects.
like i said, i havent made up my mind yet on this, because i still need to do a lot more thinking and figuring things out before i come to an answer, but this is one of the things i need to figure out to get closer to a decision.
im not really on high doses but it doesnt seem to matter with these meds. (and also within the past few years, when ssri's has been up'ed, lowered, or discountinued, it has a bad side effect, and is pretty much what ended me up in inpatient. (the past 5 years i have been inpatient twice).
anyways now im just rambling and cant remember where i was going with this.
the pdoc at that time made us promise to give seroquel 30 days before deciding if i would keep taking it or not. that was back in march of 2012. so i think we have long passed that 30 day mark.
other than that, no promises have been made from me in the matter of the meds.

thx


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[IndieVisible]

Everyone is different and I don't know all the details or history about you and even if I did I'm not a doctor so my opinion should matter too much. I can tell you about myself though. I've dropped all meds many times in the past 35 years and the longest spread I went thru with no meds is around 7 years! Usually only about 2 to 3 years. I know when it's time to get back on them and I know when I can drop them. As for the withdrawal thing, I been pretty lucky, never experienced any from any med so far and that includes xanax, ativan, klonopin, even pain killers too. SSRIs or any other med. I been ok stopping cold turkey every time. But that's just me. I understand as we all should that is not the case for many people and they should weed off the meds slowly.

[Vossie42]

Could you cut back on all your meds a little bit at the same time?

I take Lamictal and Seroquel, too, along with Prozac. I decided to change my meds since I was getting more side effects than benefit. I originally took Lamictal for depression. Seroquel was added to help me sleep since the Lamictal was so activating. Prozac was added to counteract the Seroquel hangover since Prozac is stimulating for me. However, Prozac has sent my anxiety into the stratosphere. So I cut back on Prozac, but the side effect of the Seroquel got far worse. If I try to taper off just one med, the side effects of the other two overwhelm me. I found that reducing all my meds a little bit at once helps. I cut them by a third and found that has been working better. There are discontinuation symptoms with the Prozac so I may have to up it a little temporarily. But reducing everything a little across the board works much better for me than tapering off one medicine at a time. Maybe the same would work for you?

[Lexi232]

thanks!

and i never thought of the meds as a whole. i guess i saw that stopping one was bad enough and i didnt want even more bad on top of it lol. buf it is a good point because along with what my meds are used for, these specific meds came about due to other problems that another med caused.
viibryd cause me to have more localized sezures, and it got to a point i couldnt see because it was almost a constant thing withh eyes. so i was put on lamictal(has a sleepy effect on me), so then the vyvanse wakes me up in the morning and is the med that makes me be a lot more aspergers and less autism (both on the same spectrum tho). the vyanse and viibryd causes me to become manic(was even worse when i wasnt fully weened off of cymbalta, so i was taking all 3 at the same time for a few days or so lol). so then seroquel was added to level the mania out. but then at night when vyvanse was out of my system the seroquil would pull me into depression and keep me there. which also had an sleeping med effect due to bad depression in me causes me to sleep. and vyvanse counteracts the hunger and weight gain from seroquel.

thanks, i'll keep these replies in mind!

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