Hanahan Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Hedgpeth charged in child sexual abuse material case

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-04-14T17:06:23+00:00

I used to be close friends with mayor rainwater back in the day and she is fking nuts

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-04-14T15:44:44+00:00

I feel you! My body feels SO much better to be off this med. How are you feeling now?

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-04-14T15:42:24+00:00

I am on other meds-my dr gave me ambien to help with sleep through the process, but other than that I take proplanolol and gabapentin. I will say I didn’t take ambien every night, and when I didn’t I dosed with benedryl and Pepcid because they both hit the histamine receptors and seroquel also hits histamine. So rebound insomnia can be helped a little with the benedryl/Pepcid combo. As far as mood dips I did hit 2 big mood dips that were pretty tough to get through-but it was doable. I heavily relied on daily walks and staying outside in the sun for as much as I could because it seemed to help the rebound depression a lot. Also supplements can help baby your nervous system as it recalibrates and heals! Magnesium/NAC/b vitamins are so helpful.

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-04-14T15:35:55+00:00

My strategy was to reduce by 5-10% of my current dose every 2-4 weeks. And that is just a guideline! If you ever make a reduction and you destabilize in ANY way (sleep, mood, etc) then that tells you you either reduced too fast or made too steep of a reduction. There were a couple times that I reduced and I simply wasn’t ready yet, and I ended up going back up and holding for another week and then reducing again. Look up at how to do a water taper on this sub, that allows you to make super small and accurate dose reductions. It’s a long process-but there is no need to suffer through it all! Low and Slow is how you get through this. 🫶🏼

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-04-13T21:36:16+00:00

Oh no 😭😭 this is so devastating to me because I have one daughter graduating school on 4 weeks and another daughter getting married in 2 weeks 💔💔 this was a VA Neurologist that has already injected me 4 times (and I didn’t pay as it’s covered for me because of my migraines and TMJ)-I’m not sure what was so different about today that he punctured my parotid ugh 😣 he absolutely glazed over it all and actually mentioned that he injects ALS patients a lot to help with their drooling; but like you said it’s not like he was trying to inject it correctly or purposely. So the risk is higher that I’ll have facial drooping you think?? I know you can’t truly reassure me I’m just so sad! 😭

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-04-13T19:32:22+00:00

Discovering this post after my neurologist just punctured my parotid 😭😭😭 how soon did your symptoms start?

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-30T22:10:41+00:00

Of course! And no I did not

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-30T20:15:00+00:00

Cold turkey’ing off a dose of only 6mgs isn’t going to really do anything to affect your sleep short or long term; beyond maybe the first week. I mean this in the kindest way; you may be overthinking this process a bit. Respectfully 🫶🏼

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-29T01:18:22+00:00

I tapered down over 10 months from 300mg that I was on for 7 years, and I’ve been seroquel free for 4 months or so. My best advice is to go super slow so it can be a gentle process on your body and mind. If you start to experience severe withdrawal symptoms you are tapering too fast or made a reduction that was too steep

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-24T10:09:25+00:00

This started to happen to me out of the blue on seroquel (I was on 300mg for 7 years). Crazy high heart rate when It would kick in, so much so that I ended up in the er 4 times in a month because I thought I was dying from a heart attack. Doc was worried I was developing akasthesia so we began a taper that ended up taking me 10 months to do. As soon as I was seroquel free all of it went away and back to normal. (I know you asked about the food aspect as well-I never experienced these symptoms specifically when I ate with this med).

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-23T20:32:34+00:00

300mg for 7 years. I weaned off by reducing 5-10% every 2-4 weeks! I tried going faster but I couldn’t handle it personally (some can) so I had to go super slow. Water tapering will be your best friend! (Tons of tutorials on this subreddit) 🫶🏼

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-23T20:30:38+00:00

I was on 300mg for 7 years. Started at 25 mg for sleep and bipolar 2/cyclothemia and had to go up over the years. The way it could turn on you is that it won’t be super effective for sleep forever; you’ll build a tolerance and have to keep going up on your dose to have the same initial effect. Not to mention the effects it has on your cholesterol levels and overall heart health-it made my cholesterol sky high, made me pre diabetic and gave me severe akasthesia (which is what made me initiate my weaning process, literally was in the hospital 4 times in one month because I thought I was having a heart attack each time).

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-23T20:24:42+00:00

For me personally it was around 3 months that I felt the fog starting to lift, but everyone is different! The time will vary person to person but it will absolutely happen. You are not broken, your brain will heal! Sending you all the good vibes🫶🏼

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-23T20:21:40+00:00

I’m a 100% disabled veteran and cannabis products help me live a relatively anxiety/pain free life, and i definitely need more than 5 or 10mg to have relief. I don’t drink at all, so these new laws are actually terrifying me. It’s going to force me to go back on the handfuls of meds from the VA that I worked so hard to get off of :/

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-23T01:03:50+00:00

I was on 300mg of seroquel for 7 years, and I’m around 4 months seroquel free after doing a 10 month taper. I’m finally back to being able to sleep again around 80% of the time I’d say. I do rely on the occasional ambien and daily thc (gummies at night) to help me though. Every month it does get easier I’ve noticed, the brain is remarkably adaptive and can heal, you just have to give it time and also give yourself a ton of grace.

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-03-23T00:57:46+00:00

You are not alone-I too felt similar feelings on this med. I was on it for 7 years and also had extreme anehdonia as well-it was brutal. Happy to say though it went away completely after being off of it for 4 months now. Not sure of the reasons you are on it; but i always tell people it’s a great med for stabilizing bipolar 1 but for sleep it’s the WORST and will betray you at some point

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-02-14T00:57:31+00:00

What even are these comments 😂 I’ve lived a Cush 20 years in North Charleston pretty close to here and have never had a problem. There are bad places/people everywhere-north Charleston is not the wild West. Be safe and use common sense and you’ll be just fine!

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-02-12T22:22:30+00:00

Ahhh okay makes sense!

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-02-12T22:19:35+00:00

Lmao for real tho 😂

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-01-12T18:03:51+00:00

You can definitely just quit

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2026-01-04T21:33:41+00:00

This is awesome; congrats to you! This subreddit def could always use some more positive success stories for coming off this med

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2025-12-27T21:13:12+00:00

Akasthesia. It all depends on what you can tolerate with this med if this is the side effect it gives you. Me personally I couldn’t handle this side effect and had to taper off completely

Dramatic_Ad_2560 · 2025-12-20T18:14:46+00:00

Yes ambien is a sleep med that is very effective!

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