Posted by Huxley on July 25, 2010, at 20:25:11
Hi all,
You might remember me from controversal threads such as 'rejection of meds gives me hope' /troy mcclure voice
Thought I would give you an update on how I am going.
It is going pretty slowly. I am down to 50mg Lactimal, 0.5mg Zyprexa and 25mg of Pristiq per day.
This is down from, at the peak 5mg Zyprexa 400mg Lactimal and 100mg of Pristiq per day.
It has been a bit of a roller coaster so far, whenever I make a dose change I get knocked around all over the place but after a week or so It all settles down and I end up feeling pretty good.
I am feeling really good, better than I have at any stage in the last 2 years.
Agitation is gone, what my dr was trying to use to label me with BP. It is gone, I am no longer worked up in a horrible anxious agitated state.
Mood is greatly increased. Feel somewhat happy most of the time. Periods of having a foul mood still pop up but much less frequently.
Feelings have returned, some good and some bad. Things I had completly forgotten about. Everything seems much more real, it is quite confronting beause these feelings have been completly numbed/obliterated by the drugs I have been on.Mental clarity/fogginess/memory problems remain.
5 months ago, I felt that I would be on meds for the rest of my life and that I needed them to be normal. I believed anything my dr said.
It has been quite a turn around for me. And so far I have discovered that either
A. My meds were causing alot of my problems
OR
B. I was on two high a dose on my meds and am now on the optimum.I am leaning more towards A.
poster:Huxley
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