Prescription Drugs

I've just realised that so many of you guys seem to be taking prescription drugs regularly.
If you do, what do you take them for?
Do you really need them?
Would you like to be able to stop?

 

I take piss and vinegar.

 

Good question... I am on Celexa and Wellbutrin. I had been cutting down for months, finally reached half my perscribed dose for a few weeks and just went back up today.
I take the wellbutrin for my ADHD and chronic Ebstein Barr Virus (which gives me the symtoms of chronic fatigue). The Celexa is for my anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder.
I would love to get off of it, have tried to get off of it...have changed jobs, eating habits and exercise habits to try and get off of it...I just cannot do it right now. I hate being dependent on, hate it.
With what I had gone through I am just thankful to be able to function as a contributing part of society. After what caused my PTSD my Psyc recommended applying for SSI. Instead I finished my degree and work with kids who have PTSD and am going for my masters in a year and a half.
I do not think I would be able to function to my full cpacity without meds.
I need to get off of them before we start trying to get pregnant though. Luckily, we have a few years.

 

well, i used to. percs, oxy's, and muscle relaxers for a while. i stopped. i'll sometimes endulge every now and then, but i refuse to let myself get to the point where i was.

i pretty much saved my pain meds after my knee surgery once i stopped needing them

 

I do not take prescription drugs, and will continuously refuse to take them unless I have to for health reasons.

I do not believe that anti-depressants and such drugs can cure depression or truly help a person deal with it in a constructive manner. I do believe that they can benefit some people while taken over a short period of time though, especially when battling severe depression.

 

Ugh, I could go for a pain pill now. Hurt meself the other day.

 

i, um, take caffeine regularly. via tea or coffee >.>

i was taking st johns wort for my anxiety (its an antidepressant, but everythign my doc mentioned for anxiety was doubles as an antidepressant drug). other than that,w ell, the hardest stuff i take is extra strength ibuprofen(advil)

not a fan of most 'script drugs... my mom and i have very similar chemistry and she typically reacts really badly (and occasionally reversely) to drugs. anti depressants in particular turned her into a zombie who felt perpetually high 9in a bad way)

 

Well, the Spurs are losing tonight.

 

tell me about it.
celtics haven't won a road game yet

 

Celts will still beat the Cavs.

The final will be New Orleans vs. Boston.

Boston because they bought everything and New Orleans because they have to be in the finals, since the city needs some tourism and money.

I really hope that I'm wrong though. I'll probably stop watching professional basketball if I'm right.



Oh and the Magic lost tonight. We all kind of expected it, gonna be lots of shit talking at work tomorrow because we played like complete shit tonight, just like we were expected to. I'm pretty proud of them for making it to the second round, Detroit is always out weak-spot, and we couldn't handle them. Would have done better against Cleveland or Boston. Practically all of our bench players are free agents this summer, so it should be an interesting off-season.

Not to hijack the thread, that is.

 

er, i guess, i do take one prescription drug, birth control pills

 

i did a lot of xanax a while back, and i do enjoy some vicodin from time to time...


i haven't been prescribed anything in a long time, and i try to avoid such a situation if possible...

 

I like to avoid prescription drugs if I can. I do take a prescription thyroid supplement-seems harmless enough. I'm supposed to take one for my bones, but the side effects scare me, so I never do. For 5 years I took a drug to prevent my breast cancer from returning, but I'm done with that. I took Zyban, which is Wellbutrin, when I quit smoking a few years ago, but only for a few months.

 

Most of you know I love my xanax. I take it to get fukt up and also to control my anxiety. I'm getting some valium soon. I take opiates when I can. I enjoy adderall, on occasion. Basically, I'll eat any prescription drugs with recreational value. I have no addictions, aside from cigarettes and the insatiable desire/addiction to just being fukt up, regardless of the drug. I refer to it as a "non-specific drug addiction".

 

i tend to enjoy the honor to experience all lifes complications or challenges without having to heighten the pleasure or dull the pain

that said. i take the only drugs necc for my body to survive and can not wait to be off of them

 

nah I prefer my noggin be drug free, I find it functions better.

 

I'm the opposite. My mind functions terribly when I'm not buzzin on something. I feel that if I didn't get high on anything, I would become a homicidal maniac......seriously. I have even gone far enough to plan out some murders, in extensive detail, but that was only when I hadn't gotten high on anything in a long time and I was feeling insanely depressed; then I got high on something again and it reset my anger and frustration and I forgot all about my plans. haha yay drugs

All of that crazy aggression and depression started before I ever got high on anything though, so don't say it started as a result of using drugs. Some people were made to use drugs, and some weren't.

 

I remember those days. Hope I can get back there some day.

 

I take pantoprazole daily. (well usually. sometimes I just cant be bothered taking the tablet)

I take it for my stomach to treat GRD

I don't "need" it in that I wont die if I stop taking it. I'd just get bad reflux all the time.


Would I like to be able to stop? Sure I'd like it if I didnt need them, but it doesnt worry me at all

 

that is very true.

I'll take almost any prescription drug if I need it for health reasons, or if I can catch a good high. I wouldn't consider something like ambien to be a good high, for instance. even though they're available, these days I don't often seek out pills because at different times I've been hooked on ritalin, xanax & oxycodone, and had a lot of fun but sometimes it was downright bad. I've been prescribed any number of personality altering drugs, most of which I stopped taking after a few days. they always seemed Orwellian to me but I don't think pharmaceuticals are inherently harmful. some people benefit from them, or seem to. most people are going to be "brainwashed" to some extent or another just by existing in society.