I will soon no longer be on anything that I have major complaints about. My pills are very manageable now compared with what they used to be. I’m just thankful that everything I take now is a pill and that I no longer have any injection or infusion style meds in my repertoire. Nothing I am on now has any major side effects or is particularly dangerous.
I am on the tail end of weaning off a medication right now, though, and that process has been very rough. It is an appetite stimulant that I’ve been on for about 7 years. Only just this year did a doctor finally think it important to mention to me that this med is a serotonin inhibitor. I’ve been on an antidepressant for almost to exact span of time that I’ve been on this appetite stimulant, which may or may not be a coincidence. I’m trying to get off the appetite stimulant now because (I hope) I don’t need appetite stimulation anymore, and I would like my serotonin to not be inhibited.
I’ve had to wean incredibly slowly, and I ended up having to simultaneously reduce my dose of my antidepressant, because I was having some bizarre symptoms that we think must be linked to the increase in serotonin that I’m receiving as the inhibitor goes away. Migraine with aura, dissociation, car sickness – issues I don’t normally deal with. My doctor and the pharmacists she is consulting have all been very helpful.
One thing that’s a total pain in the ass is that I’m currently having to cut the pill into quarters because nobody was able to find me a lower dosage size to use while I do this taper. It’s very hard to cut a <1cm diameter pill into quarters with any amount of precision.
I’m down to a quarter of the dosage I was on before, and also only taking it every other day. Soon I’ll be done with this saga. It’s been awful. I really hope that my appetite stays strong when I’m done, otherwise I’ll have to get on a new appetite stimulant, which is also psychoactive, so it would probably require further finagling with my antidepressant.