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I Want Off All The Meds
- Post starter Bill Simmons
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I stop anger before it can go off. I don't go out of the house. And when I do have to go out and deal with people, it's usually a disaster. Like when my beast just told my PCP that I was gonna sue his ass off for malpractice. WTF??? Where the hell did THAT come from?
Well, I'm in trouble again. Hope the hell my therapist isn't mad as hell cause she likes my PCP. Opps!
It's like the beast is married to anger. They're a pair. Two for the price of one.
Like I'm a lonely guy, would like to meet a lady and date and stuff. But can you see the introduction....Hi! I'm Sarg, this tasmainian devil with me is the beast. I'm a pretty nice guy but he's a bitch. (One can already see the lady's eyes darting from side to side looking for the nearest exit).
And what makes it suck is my anger is different from your anger. Ergo, my anger pill doesn't work for you any more than your's does for me.
It just plain sucks.
Sarg
Well, I'm in trouble again. Hope the hell my therapist isn't mad as hell cause she likes my PCP. Opps!
It's like the beast is married to anger. They're a pair. Two for the price of one.
Like I'm a lonely guy, would like to meet a lady and date and stuff. But can you see the introduction....Hi! I'm Sarg, this tasmainian devil with me is the beast. I'm a pretty nice guy but he's a bitch. (One can already see the lady's eyes darting from side to side looking for the nearest exit).
And what makes it suck is my anger is different from your anger. Ergo, my anger pill doesn't work for you any more than your's does for me.
It just plain sucks.
Sarg
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Bill Simmons
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Thanks Tho, but it would just piss off more people than I am already doing!!!
As far as getting off the meds, this is not working too well....just got so depressed I had to go back to what I been doing. Well...I tried. Point is.... I am f*cked up and that is how it is going to be. Gets a little worse every year.
I really feel like shit today. Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day.
As far as getting off the meds, this is not working too well....just got so depressed I had to go back to what I been doing. Well...I tried. Point is.... I am f*cked up and that is how it is going to be. Gets a little worse every year.
I really feel like shit today. Perhaps tomorrow will be a better day.
Bill,
Good luck with getting off the meds! This is a very difficult process. I was pulled off all my meds in 2005 after 7 years of being on different types of medications, cold turkey due to the development of a pituitary tumor and spasms, rare side effects from the cocktail of prescriptions I was taking. I was lucky to be in the hospital and had a good VA doc for the withdrawal period. It sucked more than when I stopped smoking. All I could do was focus on getting through each day (sometimes just getting through the next minute and I did watch that clock hand slowly go around and around). The first three days were very bad, then the fourth day wasn't as bad as the first but still sucked. Each day sucked but sucked a little less than the day before. The good news is that 6 med free years later the tumor is gone. The spasms are permanent, but I use a smooth muscle relaxers (nitro) to help. I have also developed allergies to certain types of medications. I am in the middle of a desensitization program, where I write a detailed description of major events then read then over and over and over again with CBT thrown in to work on stuck points. I've had better results with this in the last 6 months than any past treatment plan.
T^3 (TTT)
Good luck with getting off the meds! This is a very difficult process. I was pulled off all my meds in 2005 after 7 years of being on different types of medications, cold turkey due to the development of a pituitary tumor and spasms, rare side effects from the cocktail of prescriptions I was taking. I was lucky to be in the hospital and had a good VA doc for the withdrawal period. It sucked more than when I stopped smoking. All I could do was focus on getting through each day (sometimes just getting through the next minute and I did watch that clock hand slowly go around and around). The first three days were very bad, then the fourth day wasn't as bad as the first but still sucked. Each day sucked but sucked a little less than the day before. The good news is that 6 med free years later the tumor is gone. The spasms are permanent, but I use a smooth muscle relaxers (nitro) to help. I have also developed allergies to certain types of medications. I am in the middle of a desensitization program, where I write a detailed description of major events then read then over and over and over again with CBT thrown in to work on stuck points. I've had better results with this in the last 6 months than any past treatment plan.
T^3 (TTT)
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Bill Simmons
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Yes T^3...the med thing is a f*cked up deal from the start. When I take the meds I do not have such serious depression, but I feel brain dead. It screws up my ability to think clearly and screws with my ability to play guitar or piano. I feel like and I really am disabled as a results of the meds. Problem is without them I am so depressed I can not do much of anything. Damned if I do and damned if I don't. I have good doctors both from the VA and private. They all say the same thing...all we can do is make it a little better...we do not know how to fix it. This is a complex illness and I know that I will die from the effect of PTSD sooner or later. I am OK with that...everyone is going to die from something.
I feel like I do not have a real lot of time left and I want to do some stuff before I get to the point all I can do is set on my ass and watch TV.
I am trying to make the best I can out of a really f*cked up illness. Fine tune the meds the best they can be and harden the f*ck up on the rest.
The real problem is that the condition is not steady state and there is no way to know from day to day what to do. This shit turns on and off like a light switch and is the reason that psychology is not helping as much as it does for some people. My condition is mainly chemical in nature and there is most likely more too it than just PTSD.
Psychology helps to identify the triggers and provides a good bit of help but the issue is not just external. I can be in a good place and two seconds later I feel like shit with no external change to cause it and no new thinking to cause it.
Chemical/electrical switches are going off and on in my brain because they do not work correctly any longer. Physical changes have occurred as a result of long term PTSD. It is easy to see on the MRI.
I am not really bitchin about all this because it is what it is. I am just trying to make the best of it.
This site gives me a place to not feel so alone in the world, like at least people here have some idea what I am going through and talking about.
I feel like I do not have a real lot of time left and I want to do some stuff before I get to the point all I can do is set on my ass and watch TV.
I am trying to make the best I can out of a really f*cked up illness. Fine tune the meds the best they can be and harden the f*ck up on the rest.
The real problem is that the condition is not steady state and there is no way to know from day to day what to do. This shit turns on and off like a light switch and is the reason that psychology is not helping as much as it does for some people. My condition is mainly chemical in nature and there is most likely more too it than just PTSD.
Psychology helps to identify the triggers and provides a good bit of help but the issue is not just external. I can be in a good place and two seconds later I feel like shit with no external change to cause it and no new thinking to cause it.
Chemical/electrical switches are going off and on in my brain because they do not work correctly any longer. Physical changes have occurred as a result of long term PTSD. It is easy to see on the MRI.
I am not really bitchin about all this because it is what it is. I am just trying to make the best of it.
This site gives me a place to not feel so alone in the world, like at least people here have some idea what I am going through and talking about.
jamz
Silver Member
Stop taking them. Find other form of therapy.
Anglesachse
Diamond Member
WTF Advice is that? "Stop taking them"
How about, talk to your doc or therapist to ween you off them! Just stopping all meds can cause major complications and regression with dealing with the beast.
Post`s like that don`t f*cking help anybody.
jamz
Silver Member
That's what I said
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Bill Simmons
Gold Member
Just so everyone gets this correct. You can not just stop taking certain med in one day. In certain cases that can kill you. I do not advise anyone screwing around with their meds without some medical advise or a professional level of understanding of what can and does happen.
Even my own screwing around with the meds I am taking has risk and I understand these meds and how they work very well.
You can die from this kind of screwing around.
Even my own screwing around with the meds I am taking has risk and I understand these meds and how they work very well.
You can die from this kind of screwing around.
jamz
Silver Member
Sorry about being frank and blunt about my answer Bill.
No disrespect, I was having a mood and should have kept my mouth shut until I was ready to answer.
Yes, take the advice from your dr or drs and be very upfront.
Tell them your issues.
There are other ways for some and some issues you may have to keep on them, but you may be precscribede a diff medication.
There is never an issue with medication whenit comes to drs. They know the medical bags are deep and what may be right is not for others.
I know from some experiences there are some meds that have tranqilizer qualities that are very dangerous to me.
I love being in a state of complete relaxation. That's why I never got into coke or crack as street drugs. I'm more of a downer kind of guy. I just knew that taking something that was going to keep me down like a tranq will wind up being abused... so I had to tell my dr no. That meant I had to learn other ways.
For me it was being more active... getting out for walks, going to the gym and such.
That's for me tho.
Let me know how things go and if you want to chat about you can PM me, k?
No disrespect, I was having a mood and should have kept my mouth shut until I was ready to answer.
Yes, take the advice from your dr or drs and be very upfront.
Tell them your issues.
There are other ways for some and some issues you may have to keep on them, but you may be precscribede a diff medication.
There is never an issue with medication whenit comes to drs. They know the medical bags are deep and what may be right is not for others.
I know from some experiences there are some meds that have tranqilizer qualities that are very dangerous to me.
I love being in a state of complete relaxation. That's why I never got into coke or crack as street drugs. I'm more of a downer kind of guy. I just knew that taking something that was going to keep me down like a tranq will wind up being abused... so I had to tell my dr no. That meant I had to learn other ways.
For me it was being more active... getting out for walks, going to the gym and such.
That's for me tho.
Let me know how things go and if you want to chat about you can PM me, k?
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