From what you've said I would say you need to make your choice. Go off meds or don't- your pdoc won't stop you. This is your choice. Make sure no one else is making it for you.

I highly doubt your pdoc would actually want you off meds considering your diagnosis'... :hugs: I agree with what Gemi has said before about med-lite... you may want to try it, why all or nothing?

Gemi your icon is super cute..

Ok, BP, was there a question in that? I'm confused. You do want to be off meds, but you want them to be ok with that? You want support for that, so your friend agreeing is supportive of that implied support coming from you psychiatrist who's lone job is to medicate you into wellbeing?

You asked for my 2 cents, so here it is.

STAY ON THE DAMN DRUGS.

oh, and I thought you weren't bipolar anymore? ::::::::::confused::::::::::

Exactly.....my pdoc sole purpose is to medicate me into submission........but now i am just surviving......living day to day not actually happy that I am alive.....when I was off meds for 6 months and no one knew about it but me and the hubby that was the happiest time of my life

What meds do you want to stop in particular?

That's why I said you have to make your own choice.

It doesn't matter what anyone here thinks. It doesn't matter what your friends think. Or your husband, parents, preacher etc.

You have to make a choice. Be informed, of course, but this is YOUR choice. Take some time, think it over and then talk to your pdoc about it. Even if you go off meds- you'll still need to see your pdoc.

I got permission to stop the zoloft and cut back the geodon.

I want to completely cut out my geodon and zoloft.

That will leave you on what medication?

That will leave me with Vistaril as needed and nothing else.....which is the way that I want it.

No mood stabilizer, then.

No geodon is the mood stabilizer and it makes me too flat

I am just surviving. I stopped living life and enjoying my marriage
a LONG time ago.

Even D. Trump doesnt have enough money for me to stop takeing my meds.

Isnt med that we been on for quite some time remain in our system for awhile after med is stopped ?

Sounds like trace of med in your system helped and you enjoyed the phase of BP High which does not last but may cause a person to go into manic phase w depression. na I personnally would fight to stay on my meds at all cost.

God forbid but if your Dr tells you that you need what ever to close an open wound.
the Dr will also tell you that its your choise if you wish to be treated and by what means you wish treatment to be.

BP crash might take awhile but it will happen. The choise is your and yours alone.

Then you want to die?

WOW!

BP has been here for a while, she may or may not be in her right mind and may even annoy people with alot of questions, but why all of a sudden did it come pile up day on her?

Did I miss a new holiday or something?

I think an aweful lot of people have been making fun of her and being mean to her lately, and it gets very very old.