Posted by bleauberry on January 14, 2009, at 18:59:26
In reply to Amisulpride Withdrawal?, posted by Trans-Human on January 13, 2009, at 21:14:22
> The last thing I want is to be ill again. But I really don;t want to be on this drug for life.
>This statement has me confused. When you say you don't want to be ill again, that kind of implies that you are not terribly ill right now while on the drug. Which means the drug must be doing some sort of benefit, even if not perfect. You say you don't want to be on it for life. Why not? If your life is better with some med, this med or any med, why would someone want to not have that?
My mother could never understand why a friend of hers who did ok on her meds always wanted to stop her meds and she was so much worse without them.
None of us want to be on meds longterm. Neither do diabetics with their insulin meds, or heart patients with their heart meds, or hypertension patients with their blood meds, and on and on. Just be glad that at this time we have choices. Up until about 50 years ago, there were no choices. You either suffered with no help, you got sent to an insane institution for life where your only treatment was a cold hosing down, or you got burnt at the stake as being a crazy witch. Amisulpride, or any other med, that improves you from where you were, doesn't seem so bad to me. Maybe I'm wrong.
I'm sure some of the deterioration after the drug is withdrawal rebounds. But some of it is likely the original problem which is probably worse now years later than it was before. It is probably a mix of both, not either or.
Anyway, your statements confused me.
You might consider swithcing to a different med? Zyprexa? Abilify? Maybe in combination with an antidepressant since they do well with antipsychotics?
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