To quickly summarize the blog, I've gone on a long road of medication adjustment hell over the last few months.
Finally, things have stabilized in the last month or so, to the point I've been able to cut out my Ambien and Rozerem medications, and still sleep great.
That means one medication, Seroquel, remains to be weaned out of my medication diet. It's done amazing things for my recovery, which I never expected, given I've always seen it as too strong of a medication.
But here we are, and I finally feel healthy enough to try tapering off of it.
I talked to my psychiatrist, and am going to try going down to 150mg from 200mg. In actuality I'm just sloppily cutting 300mg pills in half using a pill cutter, so it ain't perfect, but it's better than going down to 100mg by cutting up 200mgs (what my psychiatrist recommended).
Frankly I'm nervous as hell. Sure, I can always just go back to 200mg, but after everything being so terrible recently, and only recently being stable, I can't help but feel reticent.
At the same time, I won't consider this a full recovery until I'm off of the Seroquel. Now that I'm working again, I'm noticing how sedating it is in the morning (I just nap on the morning subway now). And now that I can afford to relax on the weekends, I just sleep for about 11 hours (about the amount of time it takes for the Seroquel to wear off, I believe).
Cross fingers.
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