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Nov 05, 2014, 10:25 AM
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I am a 42 yr old female. I have been on Seroquel XR for about a month now. PDoc worked me up from 50-150mg at night. This is a supplement to my Emsam Patch-12mg. I have been diagnosed with MDD for 6 years, but have been on different MEDS for depression for about 10 years. Have been in a HUGE down the last 3 months. PDoc has changed my MEDS like crazy, trying to find something that helps. So I started the seroquel after fails with Lithium & Adderall. Seroquel seemed to help-gave me the effect everyone said Adderall would. BUT, here's my question: after being on the 150mg for about a week, I had a huge crash, & then suddenly decided to stop taking ALL my MEDS. (Even my thyroid, cholesterol, HBP pills). It seemed completely rational to me-I have been suicidal, cutting (not something I've always done), but I felt like ******* myself was not a choice I was allowed to make because of the pain & trauma I would cause my family. So, I felt like deciding to quit my MEDS was the only choice I was allowed to make. I have felt like I just don't want to fight this anymore. So I've been feeling like I'm ready to give up, & I guess my hope was that quitting my MEDS cold turkey might get the job done. I was so sure & determined. Until last night. (I've been med-free for 3 days). Now I feel really unsure & SCARED. I also cut again last night, & had lots of thoughts of hurting myself. Why would I decide to quit all MEDS like that? I've ALWAYS faithfully taken them. This is so out of character for me, & I'm scared to tell or see my PDoc. Don't want to go inpatient again. HELP!!!!!
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Nov 05, 2014, 10:59 AM
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Hi, and welcome to psych central. While I would never advise anyone to stop all their meds cold turkey, I am reasonably certain, that you are not the only person to have done so.
I'd be honest with your pdoc, call him and say you went off all your meds, maybe have the "why" of why you went off them ready for when he asks, and then think about what meds you're ready to go back on. It doesn't have to be a scary conversation, I've screwed up my meds, on more than one occassion, and once I leveled with my psychiatrist, he was ok, and helped me get back on track. splitimage
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