Poll: Are you on meds?

[everhopeful]

Are you on Antipsychotic or mood stabiliser meds or antidepressants?

• Antipsychotics
• Mood stabilisers
• Anti Depressants
• More than one of the above
• None of the above

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[jukebox]

yes, antipsychotics (prolixin) synthroid, lisonopril, lovastatin, and trazadone.

[anon49185775]

I’m on lots of sedating drugs, including my AP. they all warn about using machinery and driving.

[Daze]

depression, anxiety, sz.

[SurprisedJ]

Two A.Ps and mood stabilizers.

[Comatose]

2 AP’s and meds for sleeping and anxiety.

[Gtx1990]

I am on abilify and mirtazapine

[Hadeda]

two antipsychotics, amisulpride and olanzapine

[neveragain]

That none of the above percentile is quite high which worries me, has all of these people been to a doctor and received their diagnosis??? I have a multiple diagnosis and I do more than one of above.

[everhopeful]

Some people here are caregivers. I should have had an option for undiagnosed/diagnosed.

[neveragain]

I take a lot of different medications, and I’m feeling a lot better mentally yet physically I’m gaining weight from them and have horrible side effects from them sometimes. Especially impotence right now, I’m really embarrassed to mention things like this but it’s the cold hard truth. I have 12 different prescriptions for antipsychotics, antidepressants, pills to counteract the side effects of other pills, vitamins and nicotine gum. It’s a huge mess, they throw a lot of medication down my gullet at the va. BUT, I’ve started the ptsd therapy program which I’ve been trying to get into for years. I mean a lot of years, they finally caved and admitted I needed some therapy over the war and stuff. I’m happy to go through it but it reminds you a lot of bad experiences that happened in the past and you have to confront them.

[everhopeful]

The results are in, 83% of the people are on meds.

[Koari_akira]

I stopped taking all my medication. Just needed a break with my own mind and myself.

[crimby]

Wellbutrin, Geodon, and Seroquel for me.

[everhopeful]

@Koari_akira , please see this thread

I've been a little naughty - come off my meds!

I confess I have been naughty. I have since last month gradually lowered my dosage of my meds, until last Sunday when I came off my meds altogether. I was tired of the side effect of sexual dysfunction and having to fetch my pills all the time at the hospital. I was also eager to try and cope off my pills. So far so good, this week I heard voices one night and had some self harm urges, but other than that I have felt ok, except for this persistent feeling of being on the edge, this highly strung feeling. I feel over excitable, volatile, moody, but still coping. I was supposed to go to the pdoc today at the hospital, but didn’t go. Maybe my sz is mild enough to cope off pills, I am trying my …

[cbbrown]

I voted previously apparently. I’m on two different antipsychotics-haloperidol and latuda. Also on antidepressants amitriptyline, mood stabilizer-lithium and anti anxiety- ativan. Plus other meds.

[anon28245434]

I’m not on any meds except to an anti convulsant which I’ve taken for 24 years for epilepsy. I have managed to get this drug down to below the officially required dose, because I have a feeling I don’t really need to be on it any more. I going to stop taking it one day and see what happens.

[Koari_akira]

Not sure what I’m supposed to be taking from this, I honestly didn’t read the whole thing but the original post.

[everhopeful]

There’s a lot of advice for another person who tried to come off meds in the rest of that thread likes signs of relapse to watch out for etc.

[Koari_akira]

Okay, thank you.
I’m sure I’ll be fine:) sometimes I need to embrace my symptoms and breath.