I’ve taken meds no matter what since hospitalization, I haven’t been psychotic while taking meds, many times it’s hard to take meds, but it’s worth it if you take your health and mental health seriously. Judgement free just my experience.
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Been against them… thought I was fine and didn’t need them… but since last episode know I have to be on them… so have been taking them everyday…
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Everytime I reduce my dose I start to get psychotic. I came off once for 1.5 years, it was hell, injured my brother thinking he’s stealing my energy and nearly killed myself. 4 cops forced me to go mental hospital. They stayed with me until I was given meds by a psychiatrist in the emergency. Meds save my life.
The biggest mistake ive ever done was that i stopped taking meds. I lost a lot because of that. Thag time i went 5 years without paychosis…
I don’t question the fact that they’re keeping me sane and therefore keeping me alive. But I feel terrible and I don’t know if it’s the disease or the meds.
I wonder sometimes about taking so many medications. I keep thinking it would be nice to work my way off some of them with lifestyle changes. I take 2 antipsychotics, I was wondering if maybe I could get by with just one, but which one? I like the Rexulti because it helps with my depression and it helps me have more energy during the day. I like the Saphris because it puts me to sleep and I think it does most of the antipsychotic effect. The Saphris may be contributing to my high blood sugar so if I’m going to stop one of the aps it makes sense that I would stop the Saphris. But I fear my stability would be in jeopardy and I would get positive symptoms more often. Then I take a mood stabilizer, which I have to have because I take an antidepressant, which is totally necessary. If I don’t have the mood stabilizer I could go manic. No one wants that. Then I take a cholesterol pill, which I’ve been trying not to need by changing my diet but I still have a cholesterol of 183 even with dietary changes. Then I take an asthma pill, well I kinda can’t stop taking that if I want to breath. I take blood pressure meds. I thought if I quit smoking I could get rid of the asthma and blood pressure pills but I quit for 9 months and still needed the pills so I can’t get rid of those. So yeah, I question meds every time I pop them in my mouth, but I need them so I take them anyway.
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I feel like I can’t say it’s preferable to stay off of meds on this forum because I get jumped on.
The thing is, sz is now known to be a spectrum disorder. If you can not function without meds, you should take meds, because you deserve to live and be coherent. If you have hallucinations and delusions and negative symptoms so that you’re diagnosed with sz but you’re living a functional life, it doesn’t mean you got the wrong diagnosis, it means that you’re somewhere on the spectrum that allows you to do the balancing act just good enough to get by, so why take meds that have horrifying side effects that might make you worse.
I’m referring to myself.
But I’m scared someone is going to get mad at me on here and tell me that I must not have sz if I can function at all without meds. If I don’t have sz, then I have its identical twin.
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Took 5 years and a dozen aps to find vraylar. Low success rate and made me mad and discouraged.
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Yeah, but the damn things keep pleading the 5th amendment.
I take my meds because my parents want me to. Sometimes I question rather they’re needed.
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