Cold turkey versus weaning
Common Questions and Answers about Cold turkey versus weaning
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Since you already been on it for 4 months and because of the nature of the med itself and that you are fortunate enough to not experience any withdrawal symptoms I would suggest you quit it cold turkey. Anyway, for your own information withdrawal symptoms are supposed to start one week after not takin the drug and some people really used to the drug can experience symptoms as soon as they are skipping a dose.
I am writing for answers for my 15 Year old son with Autism. He has been on Risperdal for about 5 years now and was taking 4mg x 2 daily, HIGH, I KNOW. He is 5'10" 165 lbs. For about the past 6 months he has started with some new behaviors. I relayed these to his Psychiatrist and she has had no comment on them. I researched them myself and found they mimic Tardive dyskinesia in many ways. I have found a new Psychiatrist but can not get in to see her for approx 2 more weeks.
t want to compromise your health. I went off dilaudid cold turkey. My pharmacist explained it like this; some breeds of dogs have their tails cut off. This is done with one cut, it would be cruel to take an inch off the tail every week. Taper down and you have withdrawals everytime you cut your meds down. Cold turkey and you go through withdrawals once.
Weaning yourself off means gradually lowering your dosage. People do this or attempt to do it so that they can try to avoid the most severe of the withdrawal symptoms. Once a week or so you drop your dosage a fixed amount until you are at a low daily dose at which point you stop completely. You will still go through withdrawals but they should be milder as you aren't stopping cold turkey.
By what day honestly do you start to feel better if you ween yourslef off versus cold turkey?
I can't believe you did them both at the same time w/o tapering either one. People go to Detox for less than that. I am suprised that you have not experienced horrible anxiety or panic attacks. Your Dr. would never have gone for this plan. I would get an appt. immediately. Good luck. I undestand where you were coming from, but please seek help.
You really shouldn't make them quit cold Turkey. Let them slowing stop on their own. Or if you really want to be done, do it very slowly. That is their comfort thing at that age,you dont want to just rip It away.
I lost my job my ins. so I had 3 mos left on my presciption. So I tried to ween but I ended up going cold turkey. I was on generic paxil. The problem is I had to go back to the Dr. every 6 mos. to renew my Pres. just happens 3 mos was the end couldnt afford to spend 100 bucks on Dr. visit. I Divorced and barely making it on MY own so there's no way I could afford the DR. app. and script. plus I dont want to be anything to me its about money.
re essentially detoxing from two meds. Cold turkey from codeine is fine although very unpleasant but cold turkey from Fioricet is just not recommended due to elevated risk of seizure.
It's not completely clear how many you take per day. Is it just one tablet? Let me know. You have some options here. You can and should taper off slowly. You could cut the pil in half for example. Or you could ask the doctor for plain Fiorinal to taper with.
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