Posted by bleauberry on January 28, 2009, at 16:40:57
In reply to Marplan users updates! Please respond, posted by Cseagraves on January 27, 2009, at 22:18:41
I'm sorry, I am not a Marplan user. But I may be very soon.
I mainly wanted to respond to comment on the topic of detoxing the drugs in your system.
There is no detox needed. They are gone in short time. For example, is a drug has a halflife of 24 hours, it is 50% gone in 24 hours, 75% gone in 48 hours, 87% gone in 3 days, 93% gone in 4 days, 96% gone in 5 days, 98% gone in 6 days...roughly speaking. I didn't pull out a calculator, but that's very close.
If a med has a halflife of 8 hours, it is 50% gone in 8 hours, 75% gone in 16 hours, 87% gone in 24 hours, 93% gone in 30 hours, 96% gone in 38 hours, and so on.
What takes a long time is not the detox, but rather the body's biochemistry readjusting to the absence of what the drug was doing. If the drug was artificially increasing the pool of serotonin at the synapse, those receptors adjusted to that during the initial 6 weeks of the med, and more continuing for several months. Those adjustments caused many downstream adjustments in the other neurotransmitters, receptor sensitivities, hormones, and probably things we never thought of. Genes had their volume levels turned up or down.
All those things have to be undone as determined by the genetic coding you were born with. That process could take several weeks minimum but up to many months or even years. I have no scientific basis of this, only my own experience.
I just wanted to comment that the detox thing is in my opinion a non-issue. The length of time for the drug to be washed out of you is determined by its halflife, with some minor variability based on your liver function and other meds you take that turn liver function up or down.
Other than that, if you feel you are gradually deteriorating with time, it might be a good idea to take action in two things...doing some diagnosis of things that could be causing the problems, such as unsuspected lead and/or mercury heavy metals, unsuspected Lyme, thyroid T3 and/or T4. Just for starters. And, regardless whether you find something or not, begin symptomatic treatment. That is, not a treatment that will stop any disease in its tracks, but a treatment that will improve how you feel for better quality of life at home and work. That might be antidepressant, antipsychotic, benzo, stimulant, mood stabilizer, or combo of them. That's the hard part unfortunately, finding what helps.
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