anyone here not taking meds at all
probably my doctor want this
is this possible
i m very exhausted while i m on low doses
wt will happen if he stop meds idk!!!
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Honestly, I wish. Not the case.
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Yep, me, for over 15 years now.
When I was given numerous drugs, I was shocked. As I was taken off one drug, I was totally stunned. That drug had shut down a significant portion of my “SELF”.
Only after I was taken off the drug did I realize that a massive portion of my self consciousness had been disabled during the use of the drug. Even any episodic memories of that portion of my self were being disabled by the drug, which is why I was totally unable to be aware that that huge portion of my self had vanished.
That is why I got off ALL drugs.
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its different for everyone, whatever you do consult you pdoc
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Doctors are normally the last people to try and take you off meds
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I tried but i failed
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I am, but I am very stable. I would not have been taken off meds if I was in the same condition you are in. I probably would have had my dosage put quite high in that case, honestly. I do not recommend you go off meds as you don’t sound all that well when you are on them.
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Drugs keep me sane. Ill never go off them. I think with schizophrenia its just something you have to accept. Sure, it takes a lot out of you. But would you rather think crazy thoughts and live in a different reality?
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My pdoc lowered my antipsychotic and my benzo to just about nothing and took my off the antidepressant. I did better for two months and then my lack of sleep triggered severe psychosis. Fortunately I held on enough to know that I needed an increase. Now I am taking 10 mg zyprexa, witch is half what I took twenty years ago and I won’t need another increase. My benzo is only 2 mg Valium, at night, witch I feel good about because it’s an addictive drug and what would happen if I couldn’t get it? I am only one step away from independence from the benzo. It’s a big accomplishment: anxiety prevented me from enjoying life for so long!
I support you though if your doctor wants you to go off of the meds.
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I was off drugs for a few months and I was fine until I wasn’t. I had to start taking them again. I hope later in the future I can tapper off them but for now I have to be on them.
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Same here. Im on Olanzapine and have gained so much weight even though im on a small amount.
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Honestly how did you do that. Im on a small dose of Olanzapine and am feeling fine but get depressive episodes and then this is what fuls my psychosis
Well I’ve been down that road but due to loss of touch with reality (I thought at one point that centaur deer were going to come out of the woods. I was crying on the couch with my mother sleeping in the living room at age 37) I now take them and they work. there is however a thing as overperscribed and I’ve been that too. got to watch it. this is often a debating as to what exactly to tell the doctor and every one’s different unfortunately. It helps knowing family won’t have me committed. as long as they know i’m treated i’m fine now.
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I lasted for five years without meds but then I relapsed. All my attempts thereafter were failures. I’m stuck on them now
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I Cannot advocate enough for that most people with our condition should stay on meds because psychosis is toxic for our brains. A friend of mine just tapped down his Invega from 9 mg Invega to zero in a period of one year and I warned him against that. Now his back on the Invega and cannot sleep more than 3 hours each night. It seems that the Invega doesn’t do the job anymore cause he listen to voices 10 hours each night when he only used to hear them for 4 hours each night.
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wow
it is amazing to live without meds !!!
i think i should …
wtf i m without meds ??!!!
i think i should focus on my life goals which is not possible becoz of the voices 
which is more important than stopping meds
i m just living if i m allowed to have opinion about meds!!!
i dont even have sharp clear opinion about meds !!!
If you are having voices on meds, they’re not going to go away off meds.
Going off APs is hard and iffy. Some people can after they have been stable for years
In your case, your posts do not point to stability. You can always try later.
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Been on and off meds since April— been off cold turkey for maybe 3ish months.
There’s too many reasons to list why I went off them in the first place.
Was doing so-so in the beginning. Have noticed I’ve gotten worse since going off them.
I now get a lot of mumbling auditory hallucinations that I can’t make out, which are audible and coming from inside my head. I’m also irritable most of the time, self-care has plummeted, and it’s harder than it ever has been to be around people and take care of certain tasks. My mood is extremely labile as well— ultimately, the relationships I do have, have suffered immensely because of all this.
I kind of want to go back on meds— but I’m afraid of getting akasthesia again, and having it last longer than it did when I first started Abilify.
Dunno what to do. Probs going to tell my pdoc next week during my appointment and see what happens.
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Im currently taking much lower meds. But full dose of aripriprizol is apparently 2.5mg and blocks 90% dopamine function in the entire cortex. Im on currently 5mg aripriprizol. 1mg lorazapam at night. 500micro grams of lorazapam in the morning. And zoplaclone 3.75mg in the night. 1mg of lorazapam is apparently the equivalent of 10mg diazapam. And its faster acting apparently, the lorazapam. Its sending me to sleep. Cant move from bed most of the time. Unless someone is making me so stressed i stay up moving around as im frightened. Etc.