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[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

I just got a new nurse practitioner and instead of them adding a bunch of meds or using new meds as bandaids for previous meds side effects, she is taking me off of 3-4 medications asap.
Taking me off of Vraylar 6mg, benztropine 0.5mg, and divalproex 500mg x2 for now, and then maybe propranolol 10mg.

Then the only meds I’ll be on is lurasidone 60mg, Atorvastatin 40mg, metoprolol 25mg, and Hydroxyzine 25mg as needed

Also, apparently I have PTSD from past traumas, so I most likely will be getting a new type of therapy very soon.

 

[Templar62]

hope it goes well for you.

 

[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

hope it goes well for you.

Thank you @Templar62 i hope so too

 

[Seeker47]

Sounds like someone knows what they are doing. May God bless, guide and enlighten your new NP! We are all pulling or you.

 

[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

Sounds like someone knows what they are doing. May God bless, guide and enlighten your new NP! We are all pulling or you.

Thanks @Seeker47 yeah, my new NP is highly intelligent. Just watching her come up with this game plan was something I’ve never heard of an NP do. She even gave me her personal phone number, so I can contact her the second any weird side effects start occurring, which ive never had an NP do before.
i literally remembered and told her my entire 16 year medical history from memory but there was one medication I forgot about, which has a commercial I remember, that came out in 2009. It was an anti depressant, where everyone in the commercial was super happy.
Anyways, looks like it’s going to take about 3 months to wean off of at least two meds. Vraylar takes the longest because it stays in your system longer.
i’d really want to just remove all prescriptions and we might end up doing that eventually, God willing.

 

[Standard]

I just got a new nurse practitioner and instead of them adding a bunch of meds or using new meds as bandaids for previous meds side effects, she is taking me off of 3-4 medications asap.
Taking me off of Vraylar 6mg, benztropine 0.5mg, and divalproex 500mg x2 for now, and then maybe propranolol 10mg.

Then the only meds I’ll be on is lurasidone 60mg, Atorvastatin 40mg, metoprolol 25mg, and Hydroxyzine 25mg as needed

Also, apparently I have PTSD from past traumas, so I most likely will be getting a new type of therapy very soon.

Praying for you. May you have an easy transition, leaning on God and may He bless your NP with wisdom and discernment in the job at hand, in Jesus' name, amen...

 

[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

Praying for you. May you have an easy transition, leaning on God and may He bless your NP with wisdom and discernment in the job at hand, in Jesus' name, amen...

Thank you @Standard

My new NP seems very bright, a real servant type, who doesn’t make her patients become prescription zombies.

I will make sure to update you all on this thread.

I start weaning off of Vraylar this upcoming Tuesday. It’s going to be a three month process, just for that prescription alone. Then, near the end of that med weaning, I’ll be in the process of weaning off of benztropine.

The other meds, I’m uncertain when I’ll be weaned off but I think I might find out about when I will wean off of divalproex on Tuesday, when I see her next, if my blood test results came in.

 

[Billyd]

Thank you @Standard

My new NP seems very bright, a real servant type, who doesn’t make her patients become prescription zombies.

I will make sure to update you all on this thread.

I start weaning off of Vraylar this upcoming Tuesday. It’s going to be a three month process, just for that prescription alone. Then, near the end of that med weaning, I’ll be in the process of weaning off of benztropine.

The other meds, I’m uncertain when I’ll be weaned off but I think I might find out about when I will wean off of divalproex on Tuesday, when I see her next, if my blood test results came in.

Please follow the doctor's instructions as you are "weaning off" your meds. As one who has been through this process several times, I'll tell you bad things happen if you don't.

 

[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

Please follow the doctor's instructions as you are "weaning off" your meds. As one who has been through this process several times, I'll tell you bad things happen if you don't.

Thanks for sharing @Billyd
I have weaned off several meds in the past but thanks for the reminder.

 

[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

Called my cardiologist and told them I’ve been having low blood pressure (which is a good thing cause I had high blood pressure issues before) and they told me I can discontinue taking metoprolol immediately.

1/8 medications down, 7 more to go

(I have propranolol, just in case my blood pressure rises again. Best to be on only one high blood pressure medication)

 

[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

Called my cardiologist and told them I’ve been having low blood pressure (which is a good thing cause I had high blood pressure issues before) and they told me I can discontinue taking metoprolol immediately.

1/8 medications down, 7 more to go

(I have propranolol, just in case my blood pressure rises again. Best to be on only one high blood pressure medication)

Apparently, after feeling a lot of pressure in my mind, I recontacted my cardiologist office and apparently, someone besides my doctor approved of the metoprolol being stopped.

I looked up on Google and it said to never quit metoprolol cold turkey, that it needs to be weaned off and monitored by a doctor. Google also said that a doctor telling you to quit cold turkey is very odd.

So I may have to stay on metoprolol, until after the ablation surgery but I see my nurse practitioners office, today, who assigned me propranolol (which also is a beta blocker) and I so might be weaning off of that starting today, along with Vraylar, under her watch.

Sorry for the previous post. Hopefully no one sees it, takes it as gospel and misses this post…in Jesus name amen.