stop meds - Schizophrenia Message Board

ohgosh · 09-13-2008, 11:04 PM

hello people. i have been thinking about stopping my medicine for what my doctor calls scizoaffective diosorder. he put me on fazaclo a few months ago and it doesnt really do anything possitive. ive gained 60lbs in the few months ive been on it and i still live in a lonely existence with my parents.. no friends who i can hang out with or talk to. i have confused thinking, but mostly the cause of me being put on the medicine was a stay at the hospital that went very bad.. (i would still take the antideppresants and axiety pills)

i was thinking stopping the medicine so i could lose weight and feel better about the way i look.. maybe start taking my a.d.d. medicine so i could actually finish high school and go on to college maybe instead of laying around the house doing nothing all day. i need to get out of the house and into the world to be happy or something like it.

i guess im 18 and its my choice whether to take the pills or not.. they just dont help but im not sure if its dangerous to stop taking them right away.. ah i feel so confused not sure if i even made a point in this..........

Sari05 · 09-14-2008, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ohgosh

hello people. i have been thinking about stopping my medicine for what my doctor calls scizoaffective diosorder. he put me on fazaclo a few months ago and it doesnt really do anything possitive. ive gained 60lbs in the few months ive been on it and i still live in a lonely existence with my parents.. no friends who i can hang out with or talk to. i have confused thinking, but mostly the cause of me being put on the medicine was a stay at the hospital that went very bad.. (i would still take the antideppresants and axiety pills)

i was thinking stopping the medicine so i could lose weight and feel better about the way i look.. maybe start taking my a.d.d. medicine so i could actually finish high school and go on to college maybe instead of laying around the house doing nothing all day. i need to get out of the house and into the world to be happy or something like it.

i guess im 18 and its my choice whether to take the pills or not.. they just dont help but im not sure if its dangerous to stop taking them right away.. ah i feel so confused not sure if i even made a point in this..........

Hi there!

I really think that you should talk to your doctor about your medication before you stop taking them. Your doctor can ween you off the medication. Also if you want to, your doctor can put you on new medication that can help you this time. Also tell your doctor about how you feel, maybe he or she can help you. I just thought that I should let you know that.

Good luck and keep us posted

cinemachick · 09-15-2008, 07:48 PM

Be careful stopping...you might just end up in the hospital again.

I know how you feel. A few years ago, I was 18 and quit high school, because I could barely do anything except sleep and wander around the house in this slow zombie-like pace. College is out of the question. I just do not have the ability to concentrate. I've gained 15 lbs from my meds, but stopping them isn't going to take the weight off, unfortunately.

I really hope you can come up with a good solution with your doctor. Don't give up. It took me years to get anywhere close to stable, but I kept taking all sorts of medication and medication combinations, and it is worth it so far.

MSD607 · 09-16-2008, 02:53 PM

You probably shouldn't stop your meds...that might be the worst thing for you. Maybe you could just switch meds??

Anyway...about college- I'm 18 and I just started college in August. I hate it a lot..I'm not feeling well at all, and I'm getting worse. I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college, but maybe you just need to get better before you start anything so stressful.

trudz1982 · 09-16-2008, 06:52 PM

Don't stop the meds kiddo. Thats the worst thing you could do.

If you enjoy learning then further education is the way to go. You can immerse yourself in learning while dealing with your problems but if learning causes you only more stress and confusion then its not the way to go!

It's up to you to decide but if you think that learning new things will help then go to college....but if you think that getting stuck into some physical labour will take your mind off it for a while than do that!!

As long as your happy doing what your doing day to day, then you can deal with your psychosis along with it

PS dont worry....your not the only one ok