Will I be okay with no meds for 3 days?

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I’m so mad. My pharmacy really dropped the ball on this one. I called on Monday letting them know I’ll be out of my lithium, Vraylar and Ingrezza on Thursday. They said “no problem we will send them out tomorrow” well Wednesday I didn’t have them still and normally it only takes one day to arrive in the mail. So I called on Wednesday and they said “oh we had to order one of your meds so we didn’t send them till today” okay so now it’s Thursday and they still didn’t come in the mail. Only to find out they NEVER SENT THEM. So now it won’t be till Saturday that I get my meds. Will I be okay till Saturday?? I’ve never done well going cold turkey off meds. I know it’s only two days, my psychiatrist is out of the office the rest of the week and she owns her own practice so there’s no one on call I can talk to.

What will happen if I miss my meds for two days??

The even more frustrating thing is that the medication they had to order in wasn’t even one of the ones I’m running out of. You’d think they would have sent the urgent ones then send out the rest later.

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I don’t think it will work well for you to go without them for three days. See if your psychiatrist can send your prescriptions to a different pharmacy that has them in stock.

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My psychiatrist is not in the office this week and there’s no one on call

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Do you have a benzo you can take for a couple of days?

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I do have Klonopin. But that’s not an AP. I’m worried about psychosis

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I called the pharmacy and the pharmacist said “oh you’ll be fine without those meds for a few days” but I don’t believe him

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Can you go to the pharmacy in person and ask of a few days supply of your meds to tide you over until you filled prescriptions arrive in the mail?

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@Hanna_Foxx

Vraylar has a half-life of weeks, and Ingrezza has a half-life of about four days.

It takes time for those meds to have a therapeutic effect, and it takes time for those meds to leave the body.

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Oh thank you for that vote of confidence @Catman that makes me less anxious

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You’ll be fine.

It’s the antidepressants that mess us up when we miss a dose.

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I could go off my AP’s for three days. I would be OK but on the fourth day I would feel a little squirrely; like a little weird. I might feel like the beginnings of an episode by the fifth or sixth day. But I could handle three days off of them. Lithium isn’t an AP so I don’t know how that medication works and if three days would be too much. As I think someone mentioned, in an emergency a pharmacist might give you an emergency supply of your medication, like two or three days worth. Maybe your pharmacist doesn’t have enough medication of yours for a 30 day or a 90 day supply but they might have a few days worth on hand. If not, you could try another pharmacy.

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Turns out my meds will arrive tomorrow. So I’ll have only been one day without them

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That’s good news.

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Im glad you are getting your meds, but i agree with @Catman . Unlikely to go psychotic in 3 days. Not only because of half life and it taking awhile for meds to leave the system but also ,vat least for me, it takes awhile for delusions to reall5bform. If itv3ver were to hwppen agwin, God forbid, im betting u would be ok.

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I’m glad you’re getting your meds sooner than anticipated.

Personally if I miss more than one day, I start to have issues. But I think most people can go longer than that and still be okay