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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 711087" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I have always made it a habit to challenge doctors when they want to wean me off of a medication or start me on a medication. I want to start more slowly and wean off more slowly. Just recently I had a doctor wean me off of a medication I had been on for at least six years and she thought she could take me off of it in under a month. I ended up changing doctors. The change was needed for other reasons, but my new doctor thinks that I was headed toward serious complications with the rapid change in medications. I had heart problems from the rapid decrease in medications. It was the 2nd time she caused serious problems from rapidly stopping a medication and had zero clue that this could happen. It is a WIDELY known, and warned about, complication from stopping the medication too rapidly, but this doctor, who specialized in this class of medications, supposedly had no idea it could happen. The first time it was a seizure medication that also is used to manage nerve pain. She stopped it completely without weaning me off of it after having me take it for over 2 years. I had seizures and ended in the hospital with major complications. It was horrible. </p><p></p><p>There is NOTHING wrong with researching your medications online and asking the doctor to start them slower than he wants to. Or to increase them slower than he wants to. Or to stop them slower than he watns to. If he disagrees, ask him why. If he won't discuss it with you, then he isn't the doctor for you, and it is time to start looking for a doctor that will respect you and your son.</p><p></p><p>Now that your son has had TD, it is time to be very careful with the atypical antipsychotic medications. Those movements can become permanent. You need to carefully research TD and see what it is and how it can be treated and what can be done about it. I would be very careful in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 711087, member: 1233"] I have always made it a habit to challenge doctors when they want to wean me off of a medication or start me on a medication. I want to start more slowly and wean off more slowly. Just recently I had a doctor wean me off of a medication I had been on for at least six years and she thought she could take me off of it in under a month. I ended up changing doctors. The change was needed for other reasons, but my new doctor thinks that I was headed toward serious complications with the rapid change in medications. I had heart problems from the rapid decrease in medications. It was the 2nd time she caused serious problems from rapidly stopping a medication and had zero clue that this could happen. It is a WIDELY known, and warned about, complication from stopping the medication too rapidly, but this doctor, who specialized in this class of medications, supposedly had no idea it could happen. The first time it was a seizure medication that also is used to manage nerve pain. She stopped it completely without weaning me off of it after having me take it for over 2 years. I had seizures and ended in the hospital with major complications. It was horrible. There is NOTHING wrong with researching your medications online and asking the doctor to start them slower than he wants to. Or to increase them slower than he wants to. Or to stop them slower than he watns to. If he disagrees, ask him why. If he won't discuss it with you, then he isn't the doctor for you, and it is time to start looking for a doctor that will respect you and your son. Now that your son has had TD, it is time to be very careful with the atypical antipsychotic medications. Those movements can become permanent. You need to carefully research TD and see what it is and how it can be treated and what can be done about it. I would be very careful in the future. [/QUOTE]
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