FeralCatman Posted January 6 Posted January 6 I read this explanation this morning regarding why you can't always trust the experts and why recommended treatments vary so much from doctor to doctor and place to place and thought people might find it informative and it also explains why you're going to be your own best doctor. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK63655/ 3 Current Psychiatric Medications Paxil 10mg daily (a.m.) 2017 - Present Carbamazepine IR 150 mg twice daily (300mg Daily) 2011 - Present (Currently Tapering) Past Psychiatric Medications From 1994 to August 2021 Seroquel (in Recovery since August 2021 final dose 6.25mg), Depakote, Lithium, Risperidone, Xanax, Lamotrigene, Olanzapine, Lorazepam, Welbutrin, Trazodone, Oxazepam, Gabapentin, Abilify, Topiramate, Prazosin, Ambien (See Attached Spreadsheet And Seroquel Tapering And WIthdrawal Summary) Current Non Psychiatric Medications - Levothyroxine 88mcg (a.m.)-Vitamin D3 1000 IU (p.m.)-Fexofenadine 180 mg twice daily - Azelastine / Ipratropium / Nasacort Nasal Sprays - 0.1mg clonidine nightly Other - Fish Oil Twice Daily-Multi-Vitamin (a.m.)-Vitamin C 1000mg Daily (a.m.)-Saline Nasal Spray-Salsalate 750mg twice daily PRN, Diclofenac Gel on affected joint PRN-Magnesium Citrate 250mg twice daily Quitting Seroquel_A Vacation In Hell_Redacted.pdf Other Documents https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/topic/26099-feralcatman-recovering-from-seroquel/?do=findComment&comment=633907 I AM NO LONGER ACCEPTING PRIVATE MESSAGES.
Ma205 Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Exactly why I want to get out of healthcare 🙃 2 5/10-viibryd 15 to 10 start 10 prozac 5/17-adrenaline surges, panic, viibryd to 7.5 5/20-stopped viibryd-akathisia 5/23-stopped Prozac 6/2-reinstated viibryd 5mg 6/7-10 mg-better x 1 week only 6/13-15 mg-same thing 6/22-20 mg-same thing but akathisia improved 7/7-viibryd 25 mg 7/7-started Lunesta to sleep, 0.25-0.5 mg daily. 8/1-viibryd reduced to 20 mg 8/1-PRESENT microtapering 0.25-0.5 mg ativan. at 0.083 mg.
Vancouver1986 Posted Monday at 04:44 PM Posted Monday at 04:44 PM On 1/6/2025 at 12:56 PM, Ma205 said: Exactly why I want to get out of healthcare 🙃 Yea. I was doing a pre-Nursing certificate. (They demand one if you don't have a Bachelor's). When I started the courses in Jan 2018 is when the rock-solid 50mg Pristiq started becomming ineffective because my physiology built up so many adaptations, and I started developing a tolerance. I already had partial-insomnia which was making me suffer while going to school P/T because I was too tired to do it F/T. By Feb 2020 just before the pandemic really started, my body had no choice but to drop out due to the partial-insomnia and fatigue becomming just too much for even someone self-starter/initiative-like like me. I had had enough of the suffering so lost all of that money for that semester. (& no. "suffering is option" doesn't apply. My body was badly damaged and injured from the 50mg Pristiq.) In summer 2019, I added working two 4 hr shifts/wk on top of 2 courses. I just wanted to be a typical every day person who could do basic things. I never had any idea the Pristiq was the problem. I was under the assumption that the Pharmaceutical was safe and effective long-term and had credible legitimate non-sketchy randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials; because I tried many many times to stop the rock-soild 50mg pill to get my sleep back and get rid of all of this colon gas. I want nothing to do with Healthcare anymore. I would not be able to witness anyone else going through this literal inhumane torture. & I'd be going up against people who believe in the Doctrine of Biological/Aetiological, disease-centered, outcome-centered prescribing model Psychiatry (Monoamine neurotransmitter signaling Dysfunction/Disruption (‘Chemical Imbalance’) Biological model of brain chemistry disease/diagnostic inflation. I'll go into public elementary/high schools instead. If I ever have to hear the ******* word Seroquel again, it'll be too ******* soon. Giving god-forsaken Seroquel out like candy in old-folks homes has gotten so bad, that they've started creating public health campaigns. Current: #1: 50mg Pristiq starting July 2012 (besides when trying others when I asked). Living with side-effects (ME/CFS, partial-insomnia 95% of the time, constant drippy-nose/snot to blow out.) 100mg in March 2021 (in late 2024, realized that 50mg became ineffective because of increased fatigue, pains, pulls, workplace injuries.) 150mg in August 2021: to try to help 2nd (?) -12.5% Seroquel 50mg I.R. reduction. 100mg in late 2024. 50mg in mid-December 2024: I need off this stimulant before I touch the Lobotomizing Tranquilizers/too much Serotonin/hot summer. Seroquels W/Ds may be easier w/o the stimulant. I also need to sleep through the night finally since 2012. I'm getting too old for this. 50mg I.R. Seroquel became ineffective fairly quickly (adaptation/toleance/homeostasis). #2: Bedtime: 50mg I.R. Seroquel + 50mg X.R. Seroquel. Serotonin syndrome?! #3: Gabapentin 300mg AM + 300mg Bed. Asked for in July 2022 for ME/CFS. Was given too much at the start + raised too fast. Learned in Fall 2024 that my ME/CFS is from the Pristiq itself. & not a past flu or a STD that I've never had. Very kind Psych-Ward Psychi gave me tapering plan for Gabapentin in October 2022, but it was too fast. Lost ability to drive & almost had a seizure. Had to go back up after it reached a critical point. Eventually restabilized. Past: Nov 2022 - Sept 2024: 50mg Lamictal (raised 2x within 1 week but went along with it because I was so unwell with withdrawal + getting worse and worse as dosage increased & had to give me 2 Tranquilizers - PRN xxmg Xylac & Seroquel X.R..) Lamictal discontinuation instructions by a Psychiatrist almost killed me. Had to re-read posts on BeyondMeds to get through it. Oct 2022: Retried Cymbalta (80mg) for ME/CFS in direct swap from 150mg Pristiq with Psychi's Rx. Almost killed me. Took weeks to dangerously agonizingly restabilize. GP raised Pristiq from 200mg-->250mg. Dec 2021 - May 2022: Abilify - anxiety. Lasted on it less than a week. Rexulti - suicidal ideation. Lasted on it less than a week. Latuda - at first, hypomanic. Severe Tardive Dyskinesia. Drenched the bed each and every single night. Daily water-wasting laundry. Soon thereafter: severe depressed, couldn't work/socialize, & wanted to drink. Horrific to be ripped off of. "Agony". Divalproex - 3/day made me wonky/off, long-term partner said. 4 doses/day made me anxious within days & went back down to 3/day. Horrific to be ripped off of. GP raised Pristiq to try to help. Got as high as 250mg in October 2022. 2014 - 2017: Cipralex, Celexa, Zoloft, etc: Anxiety, Irritable, OCD, Intrusive thoughts, Diarhea, etc. Prozac: made me paranoid very quickly. Never knew about the Psych Ward so never took myself. Paxil: felt like I was on bath-salts. Never knew about the Psych Ward so never took myself. Cymbalta (xxxmg): Almost numb body, flat, no appetite. Effexor 112.5mg: High as a kite, sweat the bed every night, partial-insomnia, multiple car accidents (not with anyone), appetite suppressed, almost numb body, constant Putrid Flatulence, clitoral numbness, unable to orgasm, Wellbutrin: great energy, no pain, appetite suppressed, felt like I had Autism within a few days of taking it & had to stop. Asked for a way smaller dose to help with my pains/fatigue, & he didn't get back to me.
Vancouver1986 Posted Monday at 04:53 PM Posted Monday at 04:53 PM On 1/6/2025 at 2:38 AM, FeralCatman said: I read this explanation this morning regarding why you can't always trust the experts and why recommended treatments vary so much from doctor to doctor and place to place and thought people might find it informative and it also explains why you're going to be your own best doctor. On 1/6/2025 at 2:38 AM, FeralCatman said: I read this explanation this morning regarding why you can't always trust the experts and why recommended treatments vary so much from doctor to doctor and place to place and thought people might find it informative and it also explains why you're going to be your own best doctor. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK63655/ Yep. I even documented the harm/injuries and was still medically gaslit. I'm not a very reactive person naturally. As my long-term partner says: you don't have BiPolar #2. Or anything. You're always the same and steady and even-keeled. Besides these Pharmaceuticals causing personality changes and mood changes, I appeared very different. But the documentation was still there as evidence of the harm and injuries. I thought I may receive a bit of push-back from Dr's & Psychiatrists, because things aren't happening in THEIR body. & Dr Josef Witt-Doerring & Dr Mark Horowitz are both Psychi's/Neuro's who've been harmed/injured by these legal Psychotropic agents. So, they believe their clients. But I never expected the relentless pushback (medical gaslighting). Even by my own parent. Keep being your own Dr. It's extremely important, because we all need to get back to work. For some of us, the damage/injuries happened so quickly, that we never really worked (or worked much) before. Robert Whitaker & Peter C. Gøtzsche talks about this exact same thing: disability cheque rates and Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals. Nobody wants to sit around all day disabled. It goes against our evolutionary instincts. You can check out Whitaker's website with validating/reassuring articles: Mad In America. Also Mad in the UK. Current: #1: 50mg Pristiq starting July 2012 (besides when trying others when I asked). Living with side-effects (ME/CFS, partial-insomnia 95% of the time, constant drippy-nose/snot to blow out.) 100mg in March 2021 (in late 2024, realized that 50mg became ineffective because of increased fatigue, pains, pulls, workplace injuries.) 150mg in August 2021: to try to help 2nd (?) -12.5% Seroquel 50mg I.R. reduction. 100mg in late 2024. 50mg in mid-December 2024: I need off this stimulant before I touch the Lobotomizing Tranquilizers/too much Serotonin/hot summer. Seroquels W/Ds may be easier w/o the stimulant. I also need to sleep through the night finally since 2012. I'm getting too old for this. 50mg I.R. Seroquel became ineffective fairly quickly (adaptation/toleance/homeostasis). #2: Bedtime: 50mg I.R. Seroquel + 50mg X.R. Seroquel. Serotonin syndrome?! #3: Gabapentin 300mg AM + 300mg Bed. Asked for in July 2022 for ME/CFS. Was given too much at the start + raised too fast. Learned in Fall 2024 that my ME/CFS is from the Pristiq itself. & not a past flu or a STD that I've never had. Very kind Psych-Ward Psychi gave me tapering plan for Gabapentin in October 2022, but it was too fast. Lost ability to drive & almost had a seizure. Had to go back up after it reached a critical point. Eventually restabilized. Past: Nov 2022 - Sept 2024: 50mg Lamictal (raised 2x within 1 week but went along with it because I was so unwell with withdrawal + getting worse and worse as dosage increased & had to give me 2 Tranquilizers - PRN xxmg Xylac & Seroquel X.R..) Lamictal discontinuation instructions by a Psychiatrist almost killed me. Had to re-read posts on BeyondMeds to get through it. Oct 2022: Retried Cymbalta (80mg) for ME/CFS in direct swap from 150mg Pristiq with Psychi's Rx. Almost killed me. Took weeks to dangerously agonizingly restabilize. GP raised Pristiq from 200mg-->250mg. Dec 2021 - May 2022: Abilify - anxiety. Lasted on it less than a week. Rexulti - suicidal ideation. Lasted on it less than a week. Latuda - at first, hypomanic. Severe Tardive Dyskinesia. Drenched the bed each and every single night. Daily water-wasting laundry. Soon thereafter: severe depressed, couldn't work/socialize, & wanted to drink. Horrific to be ripped off of. "Agony". Divalproex - 3/day made me wonky/off, long-term partner said. 4 doses/day made me anxious within days & went back down to 3/day. Horrific to be ripped off of. GP raised Pristiq to try to help. Got as high as 250mg in October 2022. 2014 - 2017: Cipralex, Celexa, Zoloft, etc: Anxiety, Irritable, OCD, Intrusive thoughts, Diarhea, etc. Prozac: made me paranoid very quickly. Never knew about the Psych Ward so never took myself. Paxil: felt like I was on bath-salts. Never knew about the Psych Ward so never took myself. Cymbalta (xxxmg): Almost numb body, flat, no appetite. Effexor 112.5mg: High as a kite, sweat the bed every night, partial-insomnia, multiple car accidents (not with anyone), appetite suppressed, almost numb body, constant Putrid Flatulence, clitoral numbness, unable to orgasm, Wellbutrin: great energy, no pain, appetite suppressed, felt like I had Autism within a few days of taking it & had to stop. Asked for a way smaller dose to help with my pains/fatigue, & he didn't get back to me.
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