I won’t take haldol
I don’t want to be knocked out as my case manager wants me to be.
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That’s a perfectly legitimate question for health care personnel to ask a patient, @Jinx.
Welcome. I take an unusually low dose of Haldol. Everybody is different.
I could not even guess without knowing your medication history and how you responded to meds. It partly depends on your history to evaluate.
Thank you I managed well on 1 mg haldol. But still causes Ed so I was thinking about 0.5 mg. I know the only thing it does is taking the agitation away. But I’m always angry anyways even on 10 mg. I’m hoping I be able to manage it on 0.5 mg. Otherwise I’ll be back to 1mg.
Things have generally changed with Haloperidol in the last years. Its no longer good form to use large doses for regular medication. Its now better to use 2-10mg OD rather than a whopping 20mg - which is often double a PRN dose.
I used it for a while at 5mg and it removed my hostile edge. Warm relaxed feeling. But it caused bad headaches after a month or so, and the team really wanted to keep increasing the dose. I mean, why stick with something that works, when we can just bump the dose up to maximum? So they took me off that and put me on Amisulpride. To date.
I had it for PRN in hospital and they kept me on it as it was quite effective
However over time I had to take a lot of Diazepam and procyclidine to stop the Parkinson like effects
They took me off it
My dose ranged from about 5mg to 15mg
The unexpected consequences were I was up to 30mg of diazepam a day and it took a very long time to get rid of it
Was a horrible withdrawal if I took it down too fast
In my area they tend to only use it in hospital but they made an exception for me.
No weight gain but some weird ■■■■■■ up kinda drugged up feeling.
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I don’t think the healthcare people really think too much about the troubles of side effects from drugs like this
Taken me years to find a balance
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