Way to go, Jax. May I ask what antidepressant(s) you were taking? I've been on Prozac for decades. I think when I was first given that drug I was depressed or at least VERY unhappy. I was going through one of those 'trying times' and the doctor prescribed prozac to alleviate some of the anger and OCD I experienced at the time. It helped. It seemed to take months to work, but it did - OR, I simply got over my 'trying times' and healed on my own.
But the point I'm circling is that I cannot get off the drug now. I've tried several times and after about a month, I start to feel so anxious and raging bull kind of anger. So, rather than alienate myself and my loved ones any more, I just stay on the darned drug and put up with the extra couple of degrees of body heat, and the extra expense. At least in combination with several other medications I take for pain, the prozac also helps me to wake up and stay that way some days... and that is no mean feat!
I admire you being able to ditch a pile of medications and wish I could wean back off the 40+ pills I take daily - and those are the prescribed tablets, not counting liquids and lotions and OTC supplements. I think if I'd been stranded on the highway like so many others were the other night during that blizzard, I would have been in dire straights by morning without all my meds! I hate being so dependant and that it takes a full travel bag of bottles to go anywhere by plane, including liquids not normally allowed on a plane.
OTOH at least insulin has freed me from three other meds (Gluconorm, Januvia and Actos) so thats 7 pills I no longer take and I haven't had any ill effects from Metformin or Lantus (yet). Much of my GI tract is missing now so I do take a lot of meds to encourage food to digest - and will always need those drugs, but it would be nice if I could wean off prozac some day. I cut out street drugs; I cut out drinkin', I cut out smokin', and now I'm cuttin' out paper dolls!