I have a tough choice to make...
So, I talked to a cardiopulmonologist, who's helping me with trying to figure out why I have such lousy sleep, and why I'm tired and unmotivated all the time. He recommends doing a sleep study, to find if I have narcolepsy, which he strongly suspects based on other factors. However, in order to do this, I need to go off of my antidepressant medication, the only thing that's kept me barely functional for the past several months... So, I talked to my psychiatrist, and she says that, the fastest way to get off of them would still take a few months, because my body and brain chemistry are too dependent on them to function.
So essentially, I'd need to cut my dose of antidepressant medication over the course of a few months, to do a single sleep study exam that will hopefully confirm a disease I have, and that'll improve my quality of life immensely since I can treat that directly instead of the symptoms. But, there's also a chance I go off the antidepressants, get Big Sad for a while, and it turns out I don't even have narcolepsy... I'm scared, but I also hate not knowing what the hell is going on with my own brain and body.
I don't know what to do. What, what should I do? What do you all think? Is it worth it? Or should I not risk going off my meds?
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30 Jul 2021 16:45 CEST
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