Medication Tapering: The Downside of Updosing
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
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Video Description: In this video I talk through the potential downsides of updosing a medication during a taper. If you are involved in tapering a medication, such as a benzo medication or an antidepressant medication, then I hope that the talking points in this video might help to offer a little thoughtful guidance.
This video is not medical advice. Always consult with your doctor before making changes to medications.
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Roughly 3 years from cold turkey zoloft 100mg and abilify. After three days from quitting, could barely function. It’s almost unbearable to look back at the symptoms and pain I experienced. Luckily I found michael, and used him as my coach after about a month of suffering.
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Glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you, you have really helped.
Any video about traumas? I lost 10 years and cannot find myself again. Afraid of everything much in life. Feels like a child. My personality change completly.
Same. I’m not the same person. It’s very scary. I used to be funny and outgoing. Not anymore. Almost 5 years.
I have a vid on withdrawal "PTSD," you might want to check that out. Take care today!
❤ this is a very effective video it is well thought out with good presentation. I think it's a good idea to save the video and watch it again if you need to. Thank you Michael for all you do to help us.
Thanks so much, Peggy. I try to make all of my videos in a thoughtful manner. I'm so glad you find them useful. Take care today!
While I completely agree with most of what you are saying about updosing, and now I hold the same rule for myself (hold, adjust pace, don't updose), I also just want to add that during my cross over to diaz I went through a dangerous issue and my doctor told me to go back up on my dose of my original med and retaper it over to diaz more slowly, followed by a hold. If you are ending up in the ER with dangerous symptoms and your doctor is telling you to updose, you should listen. I absolutely was frustrated but in the end it likely saved my life. Unfortunately this requires a knowledgeable taper physician, which I know are in short supply.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. Glad you checked out the video!
I ended up in er from dropping 5mg to 3.75mg....doctor said take 10mg it all stopped next day started 3.75mg again....now at 3.5mg.....this is in regards to valium. Used it to leave 1mg ativan use
Thank you!
Some great points Michael!
Thanks, Dan!
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Thank you for your videos! Im currently tapering off 11 years of xanax. 3mg down to 2.25 in 6 months. Struggling. I needed this video 🙏 are the neurological issues permanent 😢?
They are not permanent. If I’ve learned anything from Michael’s videos, I’ve learned that healing is 100% possible for everyone.
Getting off of psych meds can be difficult to say the least. Michael had more than a dozen years on Xanax and Paxil, he knows. I have 6 years on them. (3 on antidepressants and 6 on benzos).
The more you worry about not recovering, the more you hinder your own recovery.
Just take it 1 day at a time, plan but don’t hyper focus on your timeline. Just “take care today” as Michael would say.
Tolerance is a huge reason to get off. That’s what happened to me.
It pretty much happens to everyone.
You make great points, Mike. For the first time in months, I did take a small updose. Just one dose.
I was going to see my mom and I just wanted to feel a bit better for that. Lo and behold, I didn’t feel all that much great…. Felt kind of disappointed after, like you mentioned.
But it’s in the past. But funny how this video comes out the week after I updosed after not updosing for months.
Thanks for sharing, Jay. You are right, it's in the past. All that matters is how you move forward from this day forward. Keep at it and God bless!