I was on a very low dose of antipsychotic and was recovering and could put my symptoms out of my mind with my reasoning.
then i relapsed a little over 4 years ago and had to increase my antiphsychotic to keep me out of the hospital.
I have tried to lower it back down gradually but feel a little worse so I go back to the maintence dose i am on now which is double what it was before I had my last major relapse.
Same here. I was on 5 mig Abilify, relapsed. Had to increase to 10 mg. Relapsed and so on. I’m on 25 mg now. And 300 mg Quetiapin. I have been stable for more than 6 months now. Maybe I will need to have this high dose.
I hope you are working with a doctor who monitors your medication and not adjusting your medication yourself.
I am.
How often do you change meds or dosage?
What would you say was the lowest dose of antipsychotics youve been on?
what would you say your dose of antipsychotic is now low medium highish?
When I was in the hospital in 1981 I was on a very high dose of prolixen, a first generation AP. In fact it was an extremely high dose. My new doc slowly tapered me down at 10 mg at a time until I was on just 2 1/2 mg. Over the course of 18 years my dose fluctuated according to how I felt at the time. In 2004 a new doc put me on first Geodon and Abilify and neither worked well. Then he put me on resperidone and I’ve been on it ever since. I am currently on 4 mg a day which is not abnormally high nor abnormally low.
Yeah that seems like a good dose.
I wanted to see if I could get back down to my lowest dose because there were points of my life at that dose that I wanted to fully recover and have a career and family and could get up in the morning.
I had a relapse on 15mg of Abilify. Then I went up to 30mg to help me fight the symptoms. I then came down to 20mg but again I had a relapse. I again went up to 30mg. I’m now on 25mg for the past 4 months and I’m stable. At first my pdoc said I could go down to 15mg again when I’m stable but when I relapse again she said I should take the higher dose.
This happened to me, I was risperidone through a pdoc she increased the dose to 8mgs and it worked for awhile but I moved back in with my parents and had a breakdown. I tried going to a different pdoc and he put me on the same dose of meds that I was on in the hospital. It obviously different work. But he didn’t care he refused to change or raise the med. He told me I should go for a walk that will cure me.