Master Your Medicine: How to Tell You No Longer Need Your Medication

When you start to feel better after taking a prescription medicine, it’s understandable that you’d feel like you can stop. I mean, the medication did its job, right?

Not quite. Your medication is still doing its job — so it’s important to keep taking them. “If you stop taking your medications without checking with your doctor first, it can be dangerous,” says Preeti Parikh, MD, Executive Medical Director at GoodRx and pediatrician at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

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Brittany Doohan

Brittany Doohan was the Content Director at HealthiNation and is currently the Editorial Director at Medscape. Through her work with Medscape, she won a Silver Telly Award in May 2022 for "Sleepless Nation: A Public Health Epidemic — Episode 2: A Decade Without a Diagnosis." She has worked in health journalism and video production for more than 8 years, and loves the challenge of explaining complex topics in an easy-to-understand and creative way.

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Sanjai Sinha, MD

Sanjai Sinha, MD, is a board-certified physician with over 20 years of experience. He specializes in internal medicine.

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