Posted by Phidippus on December 31, 2009, at 15:40:20
In reply to New Year...New Plan, Advice needed...., posted by Buckeye Fan on December 31, 2009, at 8:09:10
> I am on 50mgs Pristiq...25 mgs of Librium...and 100 mgs of Trazadone at bedtime.
> Which Med should I taper first? Second?I would start tapering the Librium first. Then the Pristiq (this one needs to be tapered off longest) then taper off the Trazadone.
> After more than 12 years of benzo's and anti-depressants, I feel I have lost too much of the real me.
Be sure you're not confusing symptoms with the 'real you'. Drugs do little to take away from the basic person you are and are really designed to eliminate the symptoms of mental illness which do much more to abscond the 'real you' than the side effects of most drugs. I can not function as the 'real' me without Lithium, period. I lose myself to the symptoms of my illness without a simple metal.
Does the cancer patient lose themselves to the bone-burning effects of their chemotherapy? No, but when the cancer spreads to their brain, they certainly do. We mentally disabled may not have cancer encroaching on our minds, but instead were born with inadequacies instilled in our thinking organ and those inadequacies can cripple us in an instant. We toil with invisible disabilities and need medication just as much as the sufferer of MS.
Without medication we can't be ourselves, otherwise riddled with anxiety, fending off voices or riding the waves of impossible emotions. An array of pills are available to us and more than likely we choose the pills that make us feel best and suit our basic selves. Pills can never make us something we are not because we reject those that make us feel not-ourselves.
> Number 2.....IF I have to reinstate, there appears to be ample evidence that the same drugs may not work upon reinstatement.
All of the drugs you take will work upon reinstatement.
P
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