Antipsychotics don't work in certain populations

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I read a study a few months ago which stated that high consumption of low ph drinks (soda) combined with caffeine, and also cns stimulating nicotine from cigarettes/vapes can reduce the efficacy of antipsychotics by up to 99%.

Does this happen to any of you guys or is it just me?

Can’t remember the link to the study, but if you search for it using ‘aps efficacy inefficient’ you may find it.

I don’t get any extra pyramidal symptoms on aps due to cigarettes, vaping and coffee/coke/energy drinks.

Let me know what you guys think.

:sunny:

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Smoking tobacco and caffeine can affect some antipsychotic meds. Clozapine and Olanzapine come to mind.

But 99% isn’t accurate.

Edit : nicotine via vapes or NRT doesn’t affect things. It’s just tobacco.

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I only read about tobacco interacting with some antipsychotics and it wasnt 99%, it was much lower.

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Yes, i had heard about 50%

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Nicotine itself doesn’t interact with APs (such as NRTs and vaping) like @everhopeful said.

Only tobacco does, like the kind you get from cigarettes.

Doesn’t really matter how much dopamine you give your system, the meds will always balance them out. If they don’t, and you need a high ‘dopamine’ diet (I say that loosely, some SZ do) then you need to up your side effect med dose.

Hope this helps.

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yea i agree with all of that. i even think that the contraceptive pill makes me psychotic and lubrication too.

i drink only bottled water now too.

i think my voices encouraged that lol :laughing:, truly.

but really i think i am the most extreme person there is when it comes to avoiding things that might increase psychosis.

although i do not follow my own advice a lot, i keep trying until i get it right or die

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Bro I do all of this and I don’t have psychotic symptoms or mania but it allows me a boost to do what I need to do on a daily basis

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Mine absolutely did this to me. I had to quit birth control.

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