My psychiatrist actually explained how changing medications helps them determine what your baseline is. I kind of understand why she wants to tinker with my meds. She definitely doesn't know me as well as my previous doctors did, but she is an incredibly kind and astute person. One thing she is helping me with is in lowering a pill that is basically a benzodiazapine and is very hard to stop using. She told me that there is concern because dementia runs in my family and the pill is known to increase your risk. I am just after better sleep though, and the pill in question helps me to get to sleep but overall it decreases the quality of my sleep. Hard road to go on, but in a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom as they say in the bible. I am going to research this one a bit and see what a few people say before jumping ahead and changing anything. thanks for your note Mat!
Thanks for speaking up Leif and sharing the truth about the complicated choices we face when it comes to medication. I'm dropping a new post tomorrow titled Medicating Madness that attempts to help people who don't have serious mental illness better understand just what a heroic undertaking it is to take medication. Take care.
My psychiatrist actually explained how changing medications helps them determine what your baseline is. I kind of understand why she wants to tinker with my meds. She definitely doesn't know me as well as my previous doctors did, but she is an incredibly kind and astute person. One thing she is helping me with is in lowering a pill that is basically a benzodiazapine and is very hard to stop using. She told me that there is concern because dementia runs in my family and the pill is known to increase your risk. I am just after better sleep though, and the pill in question helps me to get to sleep but overall it decreases the quality of my sleep. Hard road to go on, but in a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom as they say in the bible. I am going to research this one a bit and see what a few people say before jumping ahead and changing anything. thanks for your note Mat!
Thanks for you post, Leif. I have similar fears about changes to my medication regimen. It hasn't gone well in the past.
Thanks for speaking up Leif and sharing the truth about the complicated choices we face when it comes to medication. I'm dropping a new post tomorrow titled Medicating Madness that attempts to help people who don't have serious mental illness better understand just what a heroic undertaking it is to take medication. Take care.