Chapter 12
Antipsychotic Medication
Pre-Taper
THE PRE-TAPER FOR
an antipsychotic medication has changed more than any other
medication type with recent scientific breakthroughs at
The Road Back. The
amount of nutritional supplements required has continued to
drop dramatically with these discoveries and the ease a
person can now get off an antipsychotic has dramatically
improved.
Antipsychotics disrupt additional balances within the
body and the drug created conditions need to be
addressed. In the past years, antipsychotics were only
prescribed for schizophrenia, bipolar, psychosis and
extreme mental disturbances, but that is no longer
the case. This edition of the book includes the
recent breakthroughs that dramatically reduce the side
effects and major symptoms associated with antipsychotic
medication as well as the normal mental symptoms people
may be experiencing that might prompt a physician to
prescribe this class of medication
initially.
Starting Your Pre-Taper
Now is the time to take a
deep breath and relax. You may have suffered greatly
from the medication in the past and you may be suffering
from what appears to be side effects that will never go
away. There is hope and there is a solution. Your body
will be going through some changes during the pre-taper
and those changes are positive changes. Your life is
about to change for the better.
If you need assistance from
a parent or a trusted friend, give them this book and
have them work with you and help you through the daily
procedures.
Your physician should also
be supportive as well.
What to do:
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Consult with your prescribing physician and/or
pharmacist and layout your drug taper
schedule.
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Plan out the second and third reduction of the
medication as well at this point to ensure you are
ready with the correct dosages of the
drug.
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Once you have read all of the pre-taper section
proceed to Chapter 16, “How to Taper Antipsychotic
Medication” and fully read it as well.
The Pre-Taper
For
the next 7-days you will be doing your pre-taper. You do
not reduce your medication during the pre-taper, but,
to state again, this is the time to also plan out
the
reduction phase of the drug which starts after the seven
days of the pre-taper are completed.
Goal of
Pre-Taper:
Supplements you will
take:
JNK Formula
Neuro Day
Neuro Night
DAY ONE
Supplements:
JNK
Formula
– Take 1 of the JNK Formula
first thing in the morning. DO NOT TAKE A SUPPLEMENT WITHIN
1 HOUR OF TAKING MEDICATION. If you take the medication when
you awake, take medication as normal, wait 1 hour and then
take 1 JNK Formula. Take the second JNK Formula capsule
roughly 4 to 5 hours after the first one.
Neuro Day -
One hour
after taking the JNK Formula take 1 capsule of the Neuro
Day. Take the second Neuro Day roughly 4 to 5 hours after
the first Neuro Day.
Neuro Night
– Take 1 capsule of the Neuro
Night 15 minutes before bedtime. Take in this way the first
3 days. If you do not feel sleepy or have a difficult time
going to sleep still, try taking the Neuro Night a little
earlier than you have. Usually 30 to 45 minutes before
bedtime does the trick then.
Antipsychotic medications cause
a condition called metabolic syndrome. This begins after
only 1 week of starting the medication. This is why diabetes
is so common when taking an antipsychotic medication.
The supplements used in this
program will begin to regulate glucose and help stop insulin
resistance. If you are taking medication for diabetes you
and your doctor need to be aware of this. The dosage of the
diabetes medication may need to be lowered over time and
likely stopped in the future when insulin and glucose remain
normal.
You may not need to take the
second JNK Formula or the second Neuro Day each day. Judge
that by how you are feeling. If 1 JNK Formula and 1 Neuro
Day keeps symptoms away, then just use 1 capsule of each a
day.
Taking notes along the way will help
as well. Notate how you feel, if symptoms come back during
the day and the time. If a negative symptom tends to come
back at a certain time of the day try taking the Neuro day
an hour before that time.
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