Posted by Jackster on June 18, 2003, at 5:13:33
In reply to I think I'm on TOO MANY meds?!??, posted by Janelle on June 17, 2003, at 17:29:26
> Currently I take:
>
> 10 mg Celexa
> 100 mcg Synthroid
> 30 mg Buspar
> 2mg Klonopin
> 450 mg Lithium
> 750 mg Depakote
> 100 mg Seroquel (for sleep only)
>
> I don't care what my new pdoc says, I am tapering off the Klonopin next month (I got a good schedule that I printed right from this board!)because after many years on it, I've become habituated to it, it does NOTHING for me, so that will be off the list. (I think she will go along with me)
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> Otherwise, I feel like someone on here had so aptly put it - "a walking drugstore" - and I worry what taking all these meds will do to me long-term, in the future.
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> I'm starting to freak out about them, but I don't know what I can stop taking, given my symptoms.
>
> HELP! Thanks.It does sound like a lot of meds. If you come off any of them - do it SLOWLY and ONE at a time. That way it should minimise withdrawal effects - and if anything major should happen - you know which drug change caused it.
Just a thought (as a lay person and esp since i don't know your med history) - could you possibly take a sedating AD at night (like amitriptyline) instead of taking both Celexa and Seroquel for AD and insomnia?
Jackie
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