I am Here. I am Now.

As of today I am down to just 2 mental health medications!!! That is the first time I’ve been on just 2 medications since probably September 2022.

I dropped from 10 meds in early March 2025 to 2 meds on January 30, 2026!  So that is 8 prescription mental health medications dropped in 11 months!! 

In addition, I also stopped daily Advil which I had been on since March 2023 for chronic pain. And to reduce the chance of stomach bleeding, on the advice of a doctor, I had also been taking daily Prilosec. Both of those over the counter meds were gone by September of last year!!

Here’s a song I wrote and recorded about my med drops!!

I’m dropping meds that have been causing me harm or don’t help. Polypharmacy is real and not good prescribing practice. I should have never been prescribed 10 meds by one provider, especially when many of them interacted with each other!!

My brain is working so much better now! That experience will probably be the subject of a separate post, eventually.

One of my medications severely compromised my body’s ability to do thermal regulation. My ability to regulate my temperature has almost completely been restored. I still don’t respond well to cold but that is a lifetime thing. This is in contrast to a year ago in the middle of winter when I was burning up. There was one time that I went outside after a shower wearing shorts and a T-shirt because I was too hot. It was 59° outside. I came back inside and immediately was burning up again. That was what started the motivation to radically go down on my medications. I knew that was not normal or natural for me to be that hot. And my body was also reacting extremely poorly to being physically cold. I was in pain. I was straining muscles because I was too cold.

Of my remaining two mental health meds, I am actively working on getting off one. It’s just that I have severe withdrawal when I go down too quickly. I’ve been trying to get off that medication since September 2023.

Eight down. One to go! That one will likely take another couple years, but I’m determined!!!

Sending love into the world. 💙🌍💚