caledonia
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I know. I'm 60 now so what's the point?
The answer to questions like that is - well presumably you're going to be 65 or 70 anyway. So would you rather be 70 on the drugs or 70 off the drugs?
Then there is always the prospect of "poopout" - if the drug stops working. This is with SSRI's. You need serotonin for the drug to work at all. They double the serotonin you already have. But then they also ironically downregulate serotonin.
So if your serotonin is so low that even if it's doubled it doesn't help, that's what's called "poopout". Then they start switching you to different drugs hoping something else will work for you.
This happened to my dad. He was on Zoloft for many years. It stopped working.They switched him to Prozac. That worked for a little while then that quit working. They increased that and he had a syndrome where he felt like he was going to kill himself or kill my mom. We got him off that fast. Then he was stuck with Risperdal and clonazepam.
Towards the end, he had a lot of anxiety that was unable to be treated, poor guy. (note: he also had some dementia, not sure how much that factored in, or even if long term use of these drugs caused it.)
With liquid it's a breeze. It takes me about 5 minutes. I have a chart on the wall that tells me the amount to reduce each day.
I like the sound of that. Even if I had to buy name brand, the amounts I'd be using are so small, maybe I could afford it.