Poll How Many Medications Do You Take?

[Femke]

One. Haldol, an antipsychotic. It makes me a zombie. If I ever succeed in coming off it and finding back my old emotional life/personality, I am the happiest person in the world.

 

[Enaila]

Lexapro for anxiety and Ambien for helping me sleep and lessening the waking from nightmares.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

One. Haldol, an antipsychotic. It makes me a zombie. If I ever succeed in coming off it and finding back...

That must be really tough :( Can you talk to your doctor/psychiatrist about this? Meds usually have some side effects, but they shouldn't influence your personality.
Hugs if you accept them :hug:

 

[Femke]

That must be really tough :( Can you talk to your doctor/psychiatrist about this? Meds usually have s...

Thanks for the hugs and support! I have talked to my psychiatrist about it.. for now she doesn't want to do much about it, except lower the dose a tiny bit next month. In the future she proposes to put me on topamax against trauma and lower the haldol even more. But I'm going back to speak to her again...I want another med. Soon.

 

[Gadgie]

I think they have got me on too many kinds of pills?

 

[lostforgottensoul]

10 but only 2 for mental reasons. Still, a total of 10.

 

[EmmaOwl]

"zombie time"

My dad calls it "wifty".

 

[Sideways]

I'm down to just 2 psychotropic meds (hurrah!). I was on a fistful of everything for a long time. And it although those were my zombie years, being a zombie kept me from killing myself. Ironically, the times I have killed myself, it was via ODs on psychotropic meds. But I'm still here so on the balance I guess they did their job.

I have dropped 3 psych meds that I used to take daily over the last 2 months as a result of getting a dog (Alphapharm should really look at getting in on the psych-pets industry, much better outcomes). Wow.

But maybe it's more than 2. I take a bit of a shopping list of other stuff, from Iron supplement to cholesterol (genetic). But several of those, if not all, are probably treating conditions that aren't strictly psychological but are probably still psychosomatic. In a way, you could probably argue that my stomach meds are psycho-meds in that sense.

Despite what my list of daily meds would suggest, my p-docs have always had to fight tooth and nail to get me to try new meds or increase my dose, and I'm like a broken record telling my doc that I think this med or that one should be decreased or ceased because they seem redundant or just plain counter-productive.

Meds is a sore point for me. Every morning I take a fistful of colourful little pills to remind myself how screwed up my body and brain are. Not cool. But then, neither is anaemia.

 

[PTSDfree]

I'm not on meds for PTSD anymore, if that doesn't include the other drugs that I self-medicate with.

When I was pregnant I had to be on BP meds. Does your thyroid medication help with any mental ailmen...

I know that this post is over a year old, but thyroid meds didn't work for my emotional issues until I switched over to Nature-Throid. It's 100x better than Synthroid IMO and only costs $8 per month.

 

[Gadgie]

I was taking three different pills a day, the main one being Tramidol, pain killers for my back.

But when they found out that I had a problem with my heart, they have put me on three types of pills to regulate it, so now I have to take a total of six different pills a day!

I've asked the doctor if I can stop taking any of them, as I'm not happy about being on so many pills, and was told in no uncertain terms, that I would die from a heart attack if I stopped taking them?

So, I think I will just carry on taking them. Lol.

 

[PTSDfree]

Zero for PTSD, unless you include the numerous things that I self-medicate with.