Posted by Camille Dumont on June 26, 2004, at 13:53:34
After finally finding the right meds combo and feeling good for 3 months, my doctor found just the right thing to put me down ... there I was ready to discuss when to start tampering the meds and he goes :
Him : You'll most likely need to take them for the rest of your life
Me : WHAT?!?!?!?!
Him : Well, you've been depressed before so there is a 85% chance that it will come back so you have to stay on them. Its like being diabetic.
Then he handed me a prescription for 12 months and told me to come back in a year.
I'm so pissed. I think I'll wait six months and start tampering them off on my own. I can't believe how uncaring he can be sometimes.
I was fine before being depressed, so I don't see why I should depend on those pills for the rest of my life.
Has anybody here ever been told something similar?
What did you do?
poster:Camille Dumont
thread:360678
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