De-prescribing refers to a structured, supervised process of stopping medications that are no longer necessary or beneficial. Ask your doctor the following questions:
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What is this medication for? Do I still need it?
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What would happen if I stopped it? Is there a safe way to stop?
Why you should know this
A supervised process of stopping medications that are no longer needed is something everyone should know about
Having come off a medication, eventually had a bad time, and then had to go back on some sort of medication again, I can say that both you and your doctor can be fooled into thinking that you’re doing fine without them. Even when you take that knowledge into account.
Be sure to bear that in mind when you stop taking things.
If you have a doctor that prescribes medicin without you needing it, get a new doctor instead.
This sounds more like someone taking meds for blood pressure and thinking they’re no longer needed because their blood pressure is fine now
Laughs in chronic illness.
Yep lmao each medication I take is for a different inherent condition (i.e., not side effect management) and cannot be stopped without me losing ability to function in a serious way.
This reads as woowoo MAHA med-shaming bullshit to be honest.
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Sorry, what. Who is taking medication prescribed by a doctor and doesn’t know what its for? Isn’t it the job of the doctor to tell you when its time to stop, I mean having a conversation about options should probably also happen but a blanket statement like this is a bit… weird.
Today RFK jr announced a war on antidepressants, which includes very similar language about “getting people off unnecessary prescriptions.” That’s what.
Im not sure if this is a us thing but often times changes in insurance and other thins causes changes in doctors and generally things that get prescribed before get carried forward or maybe they get changed for new ones that work a bit different and each one is for one symptom. Then you get medications prescribed for side effects. You can eventually get this hodge podge where different medications are interfering with each other and its a big mess. Unfortunately if you in the us getting it properly sorted is pretty hard to. In my dads case he was put in the hostpital where is vitals could be constantly monitored and they took him off everything and then kinda started from the start on his biggest issues with the best options. I think they even tried a few to see which had the last side effects for him. Then they sorta built it back up to where he had a decent as possible quality of life on as few as sorta possible with a minimum of a medication cover the side effects of another medicine. He had to be in the hospital for pretty long. Like many weeks. To get it all sorted.
Paragraphs my dude
Oh we’re just going MAHA now?
Unless you take like 20 meds I cannot imagine someone taking something and not understanding what its for and why you are taking it
This is not an uncommon amount, my relative takes 15-20 twice a day. Some variance across the doses.
Most recently they had a huge review for just this purpose while looking to rsolvea new issue and it took some work but they are more active and healthy than they have been in 15 years.
Okay, my point still stands
What in the holistic medicine is this advice?
