Help with getting of meds?

[renee97]

After what seemed like forever, even though it was only six weeks after losing my Cobra health insurance, my Neurologist prescribed an affordable anti-seizure medication: Phenytoin. Yes it is affordable, but I have been trying to get off Lamictal since about the middle of August. I was at 700 mg per day. I had to stop at 400 mg for three weeks because things were getting so bad that I was not sleeping or able to do much of anything.
After a few weeks at 350 mg., on October 22, I brought it down to 300 mg. and on October 30 down to 250 mg.
One night a massive headache, this morning I did not know if I was sick or what. Took me three hours from getting out of bed, to be able to sit at the computer.
I hate this. I am at the point of stopping all these damn meds and letting the seizures happen all the time.
LR

[Bernard]

Hang in there. It takes a while for the body to adjust to changes in the med dosing.

[Zoe]

You may want to cut down the dose more slowly, making it easier for your body to adapt. Your pharmacist may have information on what is considered a safe plan for withdrawing from the drug.