Posted by Lou Pilder on December 4, 2010, at 15:12:14
In reply to Tapering off problems - what to do?, posted by hansi555 on December 4, 2010, at 13:19:14
> Hi all
> After a 28 week period of constant and slowly tapering from 110 mg Noritren, 10 mg Lexapro and 12 mg Mirtazapin to now nothing, I have run into a serious setback.
> During the first 80% of this period I have generally felt better than on most of the time when on the meds on a 100% dosis.
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> I have felt small mood swings, change in sleep etc. but nothing too serious untill approx. 3 weeks ago.
> My mood has become less and less good/normal, crying spells have emerged, sleeping is worse (espsecially since I completely dropped the Mirt 2 weeks ago) and appetite is less in periods.
> Of all these symptoms the feeling low is by far the most troublesome, also christmas is coming now, 2 small girls, wife etc.
>
> I have been on meds for almost 3 years but they never really helped me to a satisfying result in any way. After reading the book "Anatomy of an epidemic" by R. Whitaker I was (and still is) convinced that the meds will not help but indeed make things worse when used over many years.
>
> However I am suspecting that I may have been to ambisious and too quickly at the end of the taper. My question now is if I should:
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> 1) Just stay off the meds and be patient and believe that it is "only" a question of time, weeks or months
> 2) Move back some weeks to a minimum dosis and then try tappering off again in a slower manner
> ?
>hansi555,
You wrote,[...after reading (the Whiaker book)..convinced that meds will not help..make things worse...my question (stay off or go back)?]
Whitaker lists a lot of facts. There are numerous studies that substantiate those facts also. There are many psychiatrists that agree with Whitaker. Facts are facts and they are what they are. Could you list some of the facts that you think could be helpful to others so that they could make a more informed decision as to either take mind-altering drugs or not? (for every one you give me, I'll give you three).
Now the stats that I have say that about 40,000 people die each year from psychotropic drugs as by one way or another. This figure could be just in the U.S. If it is, then world-wide the figure could be 500,000 or more that die each year from one way or another from psychotropic drugs. This means that if the rate of deaths are progressive, my calculations could come up with that going forward there could be millions of people that could die from one way or another from psychotropic drugs.
Now if death is a priority to you, then your question can be answerd by me. You see, there is the risk of sudden death to people that take psychotropic drugs. They die from "cardiac arrest" and other causes that are also "natural causes" of death. But what caused the cardiac arrest? If the body is not subjected to finding out because the family did not request such, then the figure of 40,000 people that die each year could be underestimated by in some people's thinking to be 100 to 1. That meaqns under those conditions 400,000 people die each year, not 40,000.
Now the risk of death is one aspect, but there is also the risk of obtaining a life-ruining condition from these drugs. I'm talking about brain damage and dystonia and Parkinsom's-like disease and diabetes and stevens-johnson syndrome and a host of other life-ruining conditions.
Then there is your question. A question that could mark the difference between IMHO life and death. To stop or go back, that is the question.
Lou
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