I had to take tercian for a year and a half since December bc I was convinced that it slowed down my weight loss. So I told my psychiatrist that I wanted to stop and she told me to only take half the dose for 2 months. But I didn't do that. I wanted to stop as soon as possible so I completely stopped taking it. While I was on tercian, my sleep cycle was irregular, I slept during the day and was awake at night bc I was rarely tired. So when I stopped I was amazed by the tiredness I felt. I could fall asleep early in the evening, wake up early in the morning and I slept well. Also, it did help with my weight loss, I felt less hungry. But 2 months later it became difficult, I slept badly and when I woke up I couldn't go back to sleep no matter what time it was, or how many hours I had slept, even tho I was tired. Now I'm beginning to go back to my previous sleep cycle and I'm scared because it was horrible. For those who stopped taking tercian, did this happen to you? Were you able to get over it?
u/Aggravating-Mud3138
When I was 15, I was diagnosed with schizophrenia even though I couldn’t believe it. My psychiatrist made me take a lot of different kinds of drugs. When I said I didn’t want to, she threatened to put me in a psych ward, so i was forced to take them. They were ALL shit, none of them made me feel even slightly better. But there are two of the meds I’ve been on that were pure hell. The first one was Abilify. I don’t know how long I had to take it but it was one of the longest treatments i was on. I already took a bunch of meds and I thought it wasn’t going to change anything just like the other ones, but I was wrong. The « zombie effect » was so much STRONGER, I couldn’t think straight, I couldn’t cry even though I wanted to, I couldn’t express myself the way I wanted to cuz it was hard to speak when I couldn’t articulate properly because of that shit, I was always lost in everything I did even the things I used to do every day. It felt like my mind was trapped. Then there was amisulpride which was genuinely the WORST OF ALL. I only took it for 5 months, I ended up gaining 80 lbs and my prolactin levels were messed up bc of it. It was known for the weight gain side-effect, but my psychiatrist never told me, just like all the other meds I took, which had that kind of side effect, she never warned me abt it even tho she knew I had a huge insecurity on my weight (I was slightly overweight). Amisulpride also increased the « zombie effect ». I think the worst thing abt the meds is that the effect they had on my brain made my psychiatrist even more convinced that I was schizophrenic. I found out i wasn’t ill when I was 17. I was in a psych ward which wasn’t my usual one so I met a new doctor, and I will never forget how casually he told me I wasn’t schizophrenic, he just looked at me and said, « who said you were schizophrenic? you’re not, I can tell just by looking at you. » he only needed ONE LOOK when my psychiatrist « discovered » new symptoms and gave me more meds to « help me » for TWO YEARS while I kept telling her that I didn’t think I was schizophrenic. I wasted two years of my life trying to believe a woman pretending she knew better than me what happened in my head. I’m 19 now, and I’m doing so much better. I’ve lost all the weight i gained and I’m happier than ever. My only big regret in life was taking these meds, it ruined my adolescence. When people my age were at school working for their future, i spent months in a psych ward because everyone thought that it helped me since they all believed i was schizophrenic. I saw adults doing crazy shit because they needed help, i was 15-17, i shouldn’t have had to witness that.
Thank you for reading me and PLEASE never take these meds
(sorry for my bad english, I’m French)