As most of you know. I just went through a little 5 day stint of my shot wearing off. I had waves of crazy followed by waves of feeling normal. I must say the feeling normal is almost addicting and kinda makes me want to stop meds. But with the waves of crazy I know i would snap and end up in the hospital after a month.
I dunno. Food for thought.
I was going to stop but changed my mind, maybe I might think about it again but I know I’ll go crazy in my mind idk
If I miss one days dose of medication I start feeling very anxious, and phsychotic in the next day and have to get some meds in me as soon as I can.
I can’t do without meds. My pdoc tried 5mg of Abilify at first and I was psychotic on it. Even at 20mg Abilify didn’t work well for me. I don’t doubt I have Sz or need meds.
It seems like the amount of time when I get symptoms coming off an AP varies. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks. Sometimes it takes a couple of days. I missed a couple of my med. trays a couple of days ago, and I was getting really angry. That is the strongest emotion I feel when I don’t get my med’s. I got my med’s a couple of days ago, and for the past couple of days I had bouts of sleepiness, even after I had slept quite a bit already.
Yeah. I was super irritable when my meds wore off the first 3 days. But then I kinda cleared up and felt really good. I’d be mean in the morning but by early afternoon I was happy. But the waves of feeling like my mind was about to be lost is enough for me to want meds forever.
I can get kind of manic when I’m coming off an AP. It can feel good, but I that’s living in a fool’s paradise. Something would have caught up with me. I would have gotten sick or hurt.
I was incredibly manic
I’ve seen several people come off the med’s where I live, and it ended in disaster. They would get sent to the hospital, and then they would get sent to a different assisted living center.
Usually when I reduce meds things go South and I end up on more.
I sometimes forget my meds and I just feel wrong. Like today for example. My HI acted up cause of family stuff but it was more then that. Just now I went to take my night meds cause I spaced and lo and behold I missed my morning meds. Ugh. Sucks.
I’d last 2-3 days.
Deface green tea is more helpful. It lessen any near cause violence. Dont eat any caffeine
I figured out how I work with going off suddenly.
It’s usually no more than a week. If I chanhe my ap I usually go a month. Has me thinking it’s not illness but withdrawal. Idk.
Five days off meds and I’m in psychosis. I tried that once. I won’t do it again.
Me neither.
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I’m on the lowest doseage I can get, and it involves constantly being on time with my medicine, sometimes it just takes two days to feel a significant change in things.
I need to be on it.
I can’t go without meds. I pretty much pace a lot without effexor. I hope you stay on your meds. Even though you feel you could I wouldn’t do it. Hugs
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