Posted by ratgrrl on October 19, 2003, at 19:03:49
In reply to Re: general med withdrawal symptoms?, posted by sarita0001 on October 19, 2003, at 9:01:03
No--I'm not planning to go off of my other meds. I'm pretty clearly bipolar and want to maintain on appropriate medication. What I don't want is to be over medicated, or medicated to the point where the good parts of my psyche/personality/intelligence are compromised. The zyprexa was causing cognitive slowing (I'm a mathematician, that's a very bad thing) and after doing some in depth medical research I had some severe concerns about remaining on it long term. For me, there seems to be a balance between being medicated so that I can function and medicated to the point where I'm no longer myself. The zyprexa, as med #4, seemed to push me over that line.
Once again, good luck.
ratgrrl
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