Friendly reminder that the reason you feel so much better is because of your meds, don’t stop taking them unless you talk to your doctor first, you really do need them, I promise.
Around June I stopped taking my eye medication because I hadn’t had a problem with my eyes in months. I got really lazy about doing it; then I stopped them altogether.
Turns out, the reason I stopped having problems with my eyes was because I was religiously taking my medication. Whodathunk. Now I have to work to get back to the place I was before I decided I was “better” (I wasn’t!).
If you thought this post was just about anti-depressants or lithium, it could be! For me, this post is about eyedrops, for you it might be about antibiotics, or it might be about zoloft. Whatever it is, please consider talking to your doctor before making a sudden shift to stop taking it. It’s not bad to be on medication. It’s not bad to need it.
…and on a related note, do not let anyone tell you that because you start feeling worse if you don’t take your medication, that means you’re “addicted”. That is not how addiction works.
Okay everyone reblog this version
Recently I realised that – entirely subconsciously – I had reasoned “I’ve been taking ibuprofen at the very first sign of a migraine and then not having migraines? So perhaps I don’t actually have a migraine problem and I should stop?”
Guess how I realised I’d done that.
I KNEW the adhd meds/anti-depressants version of this rule. It hadn’t occurred to me that sometimes “It’s the meds, idiot” is about ibuprofen.Also: not finishing a course of antibiotics can result in stronger, more resilient strains forming.