I was told the relapse would be more severe than anything before
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Why do you want to quit cold turkey?
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Its not smart to quit AP’s cold turkey. If you really want to stop meds (which I don’t reccomend) a very slow taper is needed.
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If white cells are low, i think one must quit cold turkey. I’m not sure
A gradual decrease lowers your chances of relapse. I can understand why you would probably wish to stop treatment but be so careful you don’t end up psychotic
The only reason I stay on the drug is because of work
But I have been thinking recently whether that’s a good enough reason
I can’t stand what it does to my body fatigue and tiredness wise and I still get constipation and drooling
It does help a lot with symptoms but it doesn’t get out of control because it makes me feel so calm
Do well at work and I think if I had a non medicated brain i could do even better
Living life on the edge is not always a bad thing
But I won’t do this out of impulse
The thoughts have been flowing through my mind for some weeks now
Between what I say above and tearing down my life
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If I were you I would talk to your treatment team and ask for a different medication. Abilify for example is far less sedating for me and I feel a lot better. Without it I fear I would become paranoid and if I ended up in a hospital I could lose everything I have
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Unfortunately I have been on lots of meds that didn’t work
Abilify sent me in relapse to the hospital
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I titrated down to 2.5 mg a day then stopped but I had some really serious complications
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I came off clozapine but went straight onto abilify within a month, i was in hospital. It worked out okay on abilify. I think if you speak to team mh and get onto a different Ap then you might be ok. Dont just come off it by yourself though
What were your complications?
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My penis withdrew into my body for about 24 hours and I had a psychotic experience
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Maybe it was less than 24 hours. Maybe that’s an exaggeration
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That sounds awful 
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It very rarely ends well stopping meds cold turkey.
I would get in touch with your health team and let them know you feel the side effects are too much to bear if that is the case.
Maybe there are some meds you didn’t try yet, or maybe there were some that you did try where the positives weren’t very prevalent that you could get back on.
Just quitting cold turkey without a plan or any meds will just set you back big time. I’ve been through it enough times to know it wont work. The right approach is to taper slowly and check for positives along the way. If you get positives while tapering there’s no way you successfully can quit meds at the time I’m afraid.
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