Posted by Anna5 on April 9, 2006, at 13:17:15
In reply to Re: I am TIRED of medicaition and the system!!!!! » Anna5, posted by zazenduck on April 9, 2006, at 12:42:09
> I agree with you.
> How long did it take you to lose the weight you gained? What did your Pdoc have to say watching you gain the weight? Did he ever address the health implications?
--About a couple of months. I don't recall what the doctor had to say about it. No he never mention the health iimplications of it. The medication I was on was Paxil.> Is this the first time you will be totally med free since you started taking them?
--Yes this will be the first time being med free. I started the medication cycle Sept. 97.> Are you taking any alternative treatments?
--excersize, plenty of sunlight, etc. I believe alternative aproaches should be used first before medications.> Are you in therapy? Do you think that is effective?
--Both therapy, my own hard work (therapy and meds can only do so much, you have to be willing to do the hard work).> Do you still think your problems are biologically based but that the meds are not effective or do you believe you never had an illness?
--I have delt with being abused as a child, teased at school (unrealated to home life). One of many things that happen to me is being forcably pushed into the wall leaving an imprint of my upper back. Then an untrained person, adjusted my neck and back. I complained for years about it. I then became depressed, sucidal between my junior and senior year in high school and started in the system beginning of my Senior year. I started seeing a chiropractor, Sept. 03, took physical therapy (used weight bearing excersizes to streigthen up the muscles) Fall 2005, for 3x week for 3 months or 36 sessions. I am not sure if I ever did have a mental illness only time will til.
> Feel free to ignore any or all questions :) but I'd like to hear any experiences or thooughts you'd like to share. I hope getting off the meds is the start of something better for you. I think tho it may take a couple of years before the effects of the drugs are totally gone. I think the the brain adapts to the drugs and the brain when you first get off the drugs is not free of their effects for quite some time.
>-College has been a good thing for me, as a way to learn more about myself. I am majoring in psychology, and would like to become a mental health advocate so people do not have to go through what I have endured.
-I think the longer a person is on medications the longer it takes to be completly out of a persons system. For myself I figure about a year before my body fully re-adjusts.--I am willing to be open and honest about my experiences throughout my life and what I have learned to help others. So I am willing to answer any questions.
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