Im jerking on the risperdal and i know it will only get worse so im probably doing another med switch and i havrnt tried vraylar yet
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It’s a tough thing changing but it can be so worthwhile.
I too, moved from risperdal and it was a good move. I ended up on zyprexa and it’s been good for me.
Talk to your shrink. A good shrink gets an idea about what works for people. It’s not an exact science but work with your treatment team and find something that works. It really can make a huge difference.
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I feel like we are so close to finding the right med. I really do. Something tells me vraylar is gonna be the keeper. I sure hope and pray as I’m running out of options
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If you’ve had any allergic reactions to anything in the vraylar family, beware of that happening. I took a dose and tongue swelled and throat tightened, told that current pdoc and she told me to take 16 benadryl a day, a zyrtec and a claritin, then she’d see me in a month. Next I saw her she upped the dose and told me that sometimes we have to suffer allergic reactions. I ended up in ER right after from such severe panic attacks and inability to breathe, plus vomiting uncontrollably and diarrhea that the er took two separate blood tests to check me for drugs. I came out clean and my hair was 20 inches long at that point, told them do a strand test to see if I’m a ■■■■■■■ junkie.
The nurse gave me a hip injection sitting up, not protocol by their own admission with the board, and she blew my hip with the needle and injection. That was August, I am walking with a cane.
I hope you have a pdoc who has your health in mind and not a superiority complex. Nurse from ER was fired, and after investigations of how the pdoc treated me and accessed my files after I fired her and switched to my new one, I have a letter saying she was no longer allowed to practice with Mercy in a frame on my dresser. I filed complaints, as did my husband, a social worker, and my current pdoc and therapist. She got nailed on the telling me to ignore severe allergic reactions, which I caught her on phone doing. And her own sarcastic notes bit her in the ass.
Wow! That’s so terrible and I’m sorry you had to endure that! At least you are a good advocate for yourself! What other meds are in that family?
Off the top of my head I can’t think of the others in the family. But I got RXed Capylta lumateperone the new one but the reading with it I can’t take it because I’ve got heart issues, weight gain and diabetes is higher than even zyprexa, so my pdoc said she’d write it but really advised me not to do it. So, my savior drug that all the trials toted as this and that, are lies. And it kills your white blood cells, so she really didn’t want to do it.
We instead have doubled my xanax twice a day and she said that my 3 drinks a week are probably better health wise than the lumateperone for me.
I’ll post the pharmacy page warning it comes with if anyone wants it. That’s just what Walgreens gave me. Pdoc and her nurse looked up government trials and said she’d probably never be able to have faith in the drug because the company release papers don’t give a good picture at all.
So I’m just gonna stay in my room and hope for the best. Been off meds since last March except that vrylar catastrophe. So I’m giving up and just gonna exist.
@raelyn218 I have permanent complications from taking the meds so I hear you, although I don’t blame my healthcare team. I’m seriously hobbled due to complications from the treatment of complications from AP’s. If you have any adverse reactions @LovelyCreature tell your doctor to taper you off immediately would be my suggestion.
I am interested in this drug as well, as I am not sure how long I can take Amisulpride with high prolactin
I have high prolactin with risperdal
I just found out that the Nozinan has high prolactin as a side effect as well.
Not sure my doctors care or if I should be concerned
If it is too high you can get a pituitary tumor I read