10% rule/Why this is not done/Citations (w/response)

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Dear Veb8 (kind of sounds like a Star Wars character ;-)),

You said:

<<Hi,

First of all, I want to emphatically endorse 's philosophy of

tapering meds by 10% of the current dose. I know says to

not do it by a time table but I have been doing it every 4 weeks and

it has been working well.

I have only had one horrible day this past month and I am holding a

full time job. I figured out that with my coctail of meds, I won't be

completely off until around mid 2013 but that is ok .>>

** The reason you are able to do this is because you are on so many other

drugs. Actually, in situations like this, fairly rapid discontinuations of

certain drugs can be done depending on what else is being taken. If you were on

just one or two drugs, you would run into a problem eventually doing it the way

you are.

You said:

<<But unfortunately, I am running into alot of resistence in getting

medical professionals to buy into this system. My psychiatrist gave

me a hard time even though he is doing what I want.

But now the compound pharmacist is doing the same thing. I asked him

if what I was doing was medically unsafe as I wanted to see what he

would do. He agreed it was safe but held to his position.

It is quite clear that patients on psychiatric meds are not to be

believed from my experiences and reading about other people's

experiences. My first request is that if anyone knows of a pharmacist

and or doctor who support the 10% rules in the DC area to email me off

list. My address is dem8899 at gmail.com. >>

** Unfortunately, the answer to this is no-- we are unaware of anyone.

Please understand, it is almost impossible for them to understand this due to

all the info they get being from the pharmaceutical companies.

You said:

<<My 2nd question is are there any medical literature or citations that

endorses the 10% rule? Since people on psych meds aren't to be

believed, I am hoping that if I presented medical literature to these

folks, that they would at least think about what I said.>>

** The 10% rule is my protocol. There is nothing in the medical literature

to support this. There ARE thousands of people who have not been successful

following their doctors' reduction schedules who have succesful using mine.

This is called " empirical evidence " .

You said:

<<I just don't want to see anybody harmed simply because these guys are

on a power trip. I felt like crying when I was driving home. Not

because of what happened to me but knowing about how many people are

are going to be harmed because of these guys.

I definitely don't want to be a victim and want to do my best to use

my anger in a positive way.

Thanks!>>

** You can use it in a positive way by spreading the word. Some will hear

you, some won't. But that's okay.

We recommend a liquid titration to compensate for not having access to the

right dose. Another thing I recommend is when a doctor becomes resistant, stop

telling them what you are doing. Instead, tell them you are choosing to stay on

the drug. Just keep accepting prescriptions and saying all is going well. This

way, you won't end up with them discontinuing the drug when they believe they

should.

Regards,