Re: Drug Withdrawal

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Quick guide to Drug Withdrawal

This is an overview.

Do the decrease we've decided upon (usually a range of 1% to 5%).

Ask yourself after 10 days if you feel as well or better than

you felt prior to the last decrease. If you can say YES with certainty it is time for the next decrease.

If you can't say yes with no doubt at all, you cannot do

your next decrease yet.

It doesn't matter whether it's been 4 weeks. If you

don't get a " yes " to the question, you can't do another decrease.

Different drugs take different periods of time to come out of one's system. Also,each person is different due to biochemical individuality and the state of onme's system to various exposures to drugs, environmental toxins, etc. throughout life. Because of these things there is no way that anyone can tell people how long you'll need between reductions.

Regards,

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Thanks!nice resume2011/9/10 ccreel_04064

 

Quick guide to Drug Withdrawal

This is an overview.

Do the decrease we've decided upon (usually a range of 1% to 5%).

Ask yourself after 10 days if you feel as well or better than

you felt prior to the last decrease. If you can say YES with certainty it is time for the next decrease.

If you can't say yes with no doubt at all, you cannot do

your next decrease yet.

It doesn't matter whether it's been 4 weeks. If you

don't get a " yes " to the question, you can't do another decrease.

Different drugs take different periods of time to come out of one's system. Also,each person is different due to biochemical individuality and the state of onme's system to various exposures to drugs, environmental toxins, etc. throughout life. Because of these things there is no way that anyone can tell people how long you'll need between reductions.

Regards,

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<<When the amounts are very small, how can one continue to decrease by 1% or

even 5%?  For example, I have been going down on Lyrica from 50 mg.--I am now at

3 mg.  My compounding pharmacy says that when they titrate from 25mg (the lowest

manufactured dose of Lyrica) down to 3mg, they expect a margin of error of at

least 10%.  Indeed, my 3mg. Lyrica daily dose  does seem to vary from day to

day.  No matter how careful I am, some days I am in withdrawal.   I had hoped to

go down gradually from 3 mg. to practically nothing, but I don't know if that is

possible.  Should, I still try to decrease slowly, accepting the fact that on

many days I will be in withdrawal?  Or should I just quit this small dose, cold

turkey? >>

** Katharine, if you're in withdrawal you either dropped too much at one

point and then kept going or you moved too quickly from one decrease to the

next. Once the withdrawal happens and you ignore it and do another decrease,

you're destined to be in withdrawal from that point on.

My beat recommendation to you is to go back up bit by bit until you reach the

point where you are no longer in withdrawal. Then, do a 2% decrease and WAIT

until you can answer the question I wrote in the explanation. If you can't say

you feel as well or better than you felt prior to the decrease, it is not time

for another decrease. If you forge ahead you'll end up in chronic withdrawal.

Plenty of people have successfully done this. You'll know when it's time to

make it your last doe. You won't be asking. To ease your mind, most people

don't even use a compounding pharmacy yet manage to do a successful

discontinuation following the instructions given.

Occasionally, when you get down really low, you may need to take 1 step back

up if you're stuck. Generally, if you do this for 5-7 days and then do the

decrease again, it works. But that's not your problem right now. I think you

probably didn't wait long enough between reductions.

Regards,