if you don't need anti-depressants anymore?
I've been battling depression for well over 7 years and I just hit my 1 year mark of being on Bupropion (generic of Wellbutrin) and Lorazepam (generic of Ativan). I'm happier than I've ever been and I know that the meds helped out alot with that but I want to be able to live my life without them. I don't have health insurance so the meds aren't cheap and I don't think I need them anymore. Has anyone ever had to talk to a doctor about getting off of them? If so, how did you go about that and what was the outcome?
Do some research, the internet can be good but anyone can put up anything. Hit the library and get the research desk to help you. The US overprescribes antidepressants at an amazing level ( but we also have the highest Csection rates, hysterectomies and on and on). Why? because many docs take the party line handed out by the drug companies, they have an interest in keeping you on the drugs or doing the surgery. It's easier to hand out scrips than to tell someone to deal with it - it's life.
From what I understand, most anti depressants give a feeling of detachment, they can really mess up your sexual responsiveness (what does that help?!) Anyway, good for you! Get off them. Go into the doc armed with your research and tell him/her what you plan to do. Their role is to help you do it safely. Be prepared to deal with some emotional stuff - guess what - we all do, better to face it, feel it, deal with it and move on. Look at your diet in all this - the more I read, the more convinced I am that much of our emotional stuff is strongly affected by the junk in our food. Work on eating a balanced, natural diet and getting healthy exersize. A daily walk can do you a world of good.
I would say good luck, but luck has nothing to do with it. Do your research, know what you want, decide you will live and Feel your life - good and bad and go for it!
from past experience coming straight off antidepresants can give you a lot of side affects one of them was electric shocks in my head it can be really painful so i would say you need weening off them slowly or you could end up at square one,go and tell your dr you want off them and see what he says.
good luck x
I tried weening off the prozac last august....it didn't work.
I had been feeling really good about everything, and couldn't imagine that the little pill could be doing that much for me. So I had slowly been cutting back through the summer how much I took through the week until I thought I had cut out enough to try not taking it at all. I made it for 3 weeks before things started being not right again.
I got edgy and easily upset over things. I found that I was beginning to get super sensitive again to little things that would normally not upset me.
I decided it wasn't time yet!! (I'll also admit that I felt like a failure some because I couldn't do what should be so easy to do, and that is handle life again without a pill. I don't feel that way now. I've excepted where I am at this point in time.)
I did tell my doctor about it, he's very good at listening and lets me decide when I want to try to do things. The key is that I tell him first what I want to try, we talk and then its up to me to keep my communication going with him.
Right now, I'm weening back again. This time no so much to come off of it but to determine how much I really need in my system, and if I happen to get to the point were I don't need it, then all the better.
Talk to your doctor, that is the main thing and let the doc help you determine what you can try to do.
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