I dont want to take medication!!

My question to you is as follows. does any of the medication you have taken made you feel any better? If not and if the side effects are not worth you taking that medication my advice to you would be to talk this matter over with you doctor. I have been on a variety of medications and have been taking medication for over half of my life. i started with medicine at the age of 23 and am now 47. It can be tricky to find the right medication and one that has the fewest side effects but i feel at least for now I have found that combination for me. I am thankful I live in a day and age that we have so many medications out thereand that new ones are still in the works.

 

i hope you don't think I am preaching to you but I do think you need to be upfront and totally honest with your doctor on your feelings about medications.

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Hello Lynn,

 

If you truly have schizophrenia and weren't misdiagnosed, chances are you need to stay on your meds, and if they don't work completely, stay on them until you find the one that does the trick.

 

Regards,

Christina

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 In the start of being told I have Bi-Polar and Seziure diorder I was used as a trial  and error. I was on 28, dig it 28 pills a day. How can anyone be themself taking all of those pills a day? Seems I had all the dumb sideaffects any one could get. I was a crazy doped up woman. Why would they have me on so many meds at one time? I now take Lithobid and Klonipin plus anti-seizure meds that work as a cocktail. NOW they are changing my meds again...Shoot!  
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Finding the right medication is a crap-shoot. I tried six different anti-psychotics, eight different anti-depressants and one for mood disorders, all at varied doses. After ten years we found the right combination at the right dosage. Stay with it! Be very honest with your doctor about what a medication does (and doesn't do). I wouldn't want to go back to the way I was before!
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I have tried many meds and find that only Zyprexa works for me.  When I take it, I am ravenous and insatiable, and I sleep too much.  When without it, I soon can tell I am relapsing.  I go on it till I start feeling well again.  Then I go off of it to try to lose weight and have energy and no fatigue during the day.  I have done this routine for a couple of years now and wonder what it is doing to my brain.  I wonder if I am inflicting irreparable damage to it because it has gotten to where even if I just lower the dose a bit, I am physically and mentally exhausted all the time.  It kind of scares me.  It is like my whole system is relying on Zyprexa to function now and I don't want it to be that way.  I am supposed to take 20mg and am taking 5 right now.  I used to have to take 40mg for it to be effective.  At least I don't have to take that much anymore.

 

Carolyn

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