Despite the admonitions I received from doctors, friends, and husband I decided to quit Lamictal and Seroquel cold turkey 7 weeks ago. The first week I was very physically ill and missed most of the work week but by the end of that first week I was feeling much better and now I feel better than I have in a very long time. I know that cold turkey is not the way to go for many but it seems to have worked for me. I was lucky.
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congratulations—may your good health continue…welcome to the blogosphere!
you are not the only person I know of who has done it the way you did it. It does work occasionally. I’m so pleased for you.
I did pretty much the same thing three years ago. After my husband had a heart attack and I found myself unable to cry, and my psychiatrist’s only respons to my concern was, “Well, the medication protected you!” I decided I’d had it with modern psychiatry.
Like you, medication gave me no relief. Like you, I was paying over a hundred dollars a month to feel no joy, no happiness, no authentic human emotion at all.
I quit my meds over a period of about two weeks, had a horrible week of feeling terrible, and then things started to get better.
It feel good to be back in the real world, doesn’t it?
I quit seroquel two weeks ago. 200 mg a day to nothing. I am down to 50 mg a day of lamactil and am going cold turkey this weekend.
I am glad it worked out well for you, I hope the same for me. Never thought I would say I missed mania or depression, but I do, I would rather suffer and be alive then painfree and one of the walking dead.
Hi Jake,
I forgot all about this blog and just saw your post today. How are you doing?