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Title: came off medication for a week! straight back on it today!
Post by: mrmoody on May 31, 2012, 05:55:52 PM
a week ago I threw away my new prescription and remaining meds. I thought I could do it. Today the remaining meds that were in my system must have come out. within a hour I was sat in the doctors surgery crying. I am just not ready yet and with all the crap thats happening in my life. I never thought I would need meds, having not used them for most of my life. I got some more anyways, mitrazapine which should sedate me beautifully tonight. perhaps also I need to up them also, the dose
Title: Re: came off medication for a week! straight back on it today!
Post by: Buttercup on May 31, 2012, 06:05:03 PM
Don't beat yourself up.   &*( &*(
Title: Re: came off medication for a week! straight back on it today!
Post by: CharleysAngel' on May 31, 2012, 06:18:50 PM
I'm sorry Alex, don't be too hard on yourself, lots of people need medication for their depression and its nothing to be ashamed of. I'm sure one day you may be able to reduce the meds you take or even come off them completely, but that can only happen when your are 100% ready.

Take care x
Title: Re: came off medication for a week! straight back on it today!
Post by: mrmoody on May 31, 2012, 06:23:56 PM
feel relieved more than anything Buttercup but I also feel weak for giving in. I was just thinking of doing myself in this weekend. Dreading this 4 day weekend. God save the Queen eh
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Post by: Zaf on May 31, 2012, 06:38:59 PM
Its illness Alex, not weakness &*(

Z xx
Title: Re: came off medication for a week! straight back on it today!
Post by: Buttercup on May 31, 2012, 06:42:13 PM
I wouldn't feel weak for giving in, as Zaf says its an illness.  Can understand the feeling of relief though, now that I've found the right meds, I don't want to give them up, but at the same time I don't like the idea of being stuck on them.

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Post by: Sweetpea on May 31, 2012, 08:12:34 PM
You are ill and you need medication, I have been told I will probably have to take them for the rest of my life.

S x x x x
Title: Re: came off medication for a week! straight back on it today!
Post by: Zaf on May 31, 2012, 08:17:58 PM
Me too, its just something I have had to accept

Z x
Title: Re: came off medication for a week! straight back on it today!
Post by: Sweetpea on May 31, 2012, 08:24:34 PM
It frightened me to start with, but I would rather keep taking them than to feel like I do without them.

S x x x x
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Post by: KateG on May 31, 2012, 08:43:59 PM
Don't feel bad, although I've come off my meds, there have been many days when I have considered going back on them. This morning was just one of them &*(
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Post by: mrmoody on May 31, 2012, 09:29:34 PM
I didnt mean to sound like I was calling depression or taking meds as weakness, I just felt weak giving in and taking them again. I feel alright now
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Post by: mrmoody on May 31, 2012, 09:42:52 PM
I was sat in the doctors surgery crying. I just couldnt go on like this anymore
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Post by: Buttercup on May 31, 2012, 10:13:22 PM
My doctor got to the point where she handed me the box of tissues when I went in  :-\
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Post by: whiteadder on May 31, 2012, 11:47:28 PM
You're not weak. coming off them, whilst possibly unwise, was very brave. It is not your fault that you have depression.
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Post by: lightenup on June 01, 2012, 12:42:41 PM
I think after a while the meds have a way of lulling u into a sense of security and u wonder if u really need them at all, I kno that's how I feel and the denial to yourself that u are unwell.  Coming of Lithium dreading and looking forward to it.
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Post by: mrmoody on June 01, 2012, 02:29:54 PM
yeah your right,false sense of security is right! thats exactly what happened and then boom,hits me and down the slide!