Posted by fallsfall on August 19, 2003, at 7:36:26
In reply to Anyone Taken a Drug Holiday?, posted by allisonf on August 19, 2003, at 4:16:31
Changing only one thing at a time is a good practice because then you can tell what the effects of each individual med change are. I hadn't heard of not going off meds in the winter - unless they are worried about SAD. I might question that.
I agree that you shouldn't go off meds when you aren't doing well - unless you have a pretty strong belief that the meds are making you worse. You could exchange one med for a new one in hopes of finding something that will work better.
I'm going to start removing meds in a couple of weeks. Lithium is first because I've been on it the longest and it can cause tiredness. It'll take a month to go off that. If, as I decrease, it is clear that I need the lithium, then I go back to full dose. Then Prozac - probably a month again - and if I have adverse effects I go back on. etc. This will take a long time...
Sounds like this Psycho-Babble will be interesting in the near future with med reductions!
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