Moomoocat Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 (edited) Hey this is my first post on this site and wanted to post about ability. I feel it has made my illness, if you want to call it that, much worse than I was in the past. I am impulsive, compulsive, and more serial than I was. I feel it has torn my 20s away. I feel it is setting me back. I was alarmed when I saw lawsuits about it on commercials. Anyway I am on 10mg of abilify since April 2011. Finally had a psychiatrist convinced I need to reduce it even though she was hesitant. She increased it back to 10mg when I told her I smoked bud, which I want to stop as well. (Too much going illicit or not). I want to talk to her about going back to 7mg even though I have enough of the 5mg and 2mg to wean off of. Also, I am on 75 MG of welbutrin which I am told is the lowest dose. Also clonezepam.5 MG, 2x a day as needed. I take about 1 MG a day. I would like to first wean off the abilify. Then welbutrin. Then clonezepam. How do I go about this with the 10% reduction in meds ( I'm not great at math) and at what point do I stop smoking, or slowly wean off as well. Thanks in advance, all answers are appreciated. Edited June 24, 2017 by mammaP Added name to title Link to comment
Moderator Emeritus mammaP Posted June 22, 2017 Moderator Emeritus Share Posted June 22, 2017 Hi Moomoocat, welcome to SA. You might be best to get off the bud first, then your psychiatrist will be happier about tapering the others. I have no experience of this and we don't cover it so we can't advise on the best way to get off bud. Why are you thinking of abilify first? With the psych drugs we usually recommend tapering the anti depressant first. I will get some links for you. Read through the information so that you are well prepared and ready. You will also need to learn non drug ways of coping with things so that you don't end up back on the drugs. This will take time, it needs to be very slow to allow your brain to adjust between drops. It is well worth it to be free of the drugs with little discomfort. There will be some withdrawal symptoms but if it is done slowly they are manageable. We have a members only benzo forum, where you can get info on the use of clonazepam and the best way to taper. We usually suggest tapering the benzo last because it can help with any withdrawal symptoms that may appear while tapering the others. http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/forum/29-members-only-benzo-forum/ We ask all out members to fill in their signature, you can find instructions here **I am not a medical professional, if in doubt please consult a doctor with withdrawal knowledge. Different drugs occasionally (mostly benzos) 1976 - 1981 (no problem) 1993 - 2002 in and out of hospital. every type of drug + ECT. Staring with seroxat 2002 effexor. Tapered March 2012 to March 2013, ending with 5 beads. Withdrawal April 2013 . Reinstated 5 beads reduced to 4 beads May 2013 Restarted taper Nov 2013 OFF EFFEXOR Feb 2015 Tapered atenolol and omeprazole Dec 2013 - May 2014 Tapering tramadol, Feb 2015 100mg , March 2015 50mg July 2017 30mg. May 15 2018 25mg Taking fish oil, magnesium, B12, folic acid, bilberry eyebright for eye pressure. My story http://survivingantidepressants.org/index.php?/topic/4199-hello-mammap-checking-in/page-33 Lesson learned, slow down taper at lower doses. Taper no more than 10% of CURRENT dose if possible Link to comment
nz11 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Any update moomoocat? There sure area lot of cats in this site Thought for the day: Lets stand up, and let’s speak out , together. G Olsen We have until the 14th. Feb 2018. URGENT REQUEST Please consider submitting for the petition on Prescribed Drug Dependence and Withdrawal currently awaiting its third consideration at the Scottish Parliament. You don't even have to be from Scotland. By clicking on the link below you can read some of the previous submissions but be warned many of them are quite harrowing. http://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/PE01651 Please tell them about your problems taking and withdrawing from antidepressants and/or benzos. Send by email to petitions@parliament.scot and quote PE01651 in the subject heading. Keep to a maximum of 3 sides of A4 and you can't name for legal reasons any doctor you have consulted. Tell them if you wish to remain anonymous. We need the numbers to help convince the committee members we are not isolated cases. You have until mid February. Thank you Recovering paxil addict None of the published articles shed light on what ssri's ... actually do or what their hazards might be. Healy 2013. This is so true, with anything you get on these drugs, dependance, tapering, withdrawal symptoms, side effects, just silent. And if there is something mentioned then their is a serious disconnect between what is said and reality! "Every time I read of a multi-person shooting, I always presume that person had just started a SSRI or had just stopped." Dr Mosher. Me too! Over two decades later, the number of antidepressant prescriptions a year is slightly more than the number of people in the Western world. Most (nine out of 10) prescriptions are for patients who faced difficulties on stopping, equating to about a tenth of the population. These patients are often advised to continue treatment because their difficulties indicate they need ongoing treatment, just as a person with diabetes needs insulin. Healy 2015 I believe the ssri era will soon stand as one of the most shameful in the history of medicine. Healy 2015 Let people help people ... in a natural, kind, non-addictive (and non-big pharma) way. J Broadley 2017 Link to comment
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