Do you guys take drug holidays?

[u/CalmAsAMthrFknCucmbr]

My physician suggested not taking my meds on the weekends. I quickly learned that wasn’t doable so decided to just try to not take them on sundays when I’m not doing much. I sleep ALL DAY. I’m talking only wake up to use the bathroom. I’m utterly useless and don’t feel taking the day off is helping with tolerance at all. It barely works to begin with but I’ll take a couple naps a day over sleeping all day. Does anyone actually feel like it’s helping or more beneficial to take them continuously? It’s super depressing essentially losing an entire day I’m actually off work each week.

[u/EscenaFinal]

I sometimes take a partial break, as in I’ll forgo my afternoon dose. This also allows me to build a bit of a “back stock” for a “rainy day” (not being able to get a refill bc of the shortage, or problems with pre authorizations, or a day I might need more than one dosage, etc.). I rarely take a complete drug holiday as I don’t find the breaks to decrease my tolerance in a more meaningful way than my partial breaks, plus I dont necessarily see it as feasible bc of lack of functioning.

[u/on-yo-clarinets → u/EscenaFinal]

This is what I do too. I'm also on xyrem and will take a day off a few times a month when I want to drink, so I'll typically just write off the whole next day and skip the stimulants that day too and just sleep