Yes I feel dumber too! The less I take, the smarter I get. :-p
Do you think first generation has less side effects than second? I experience it that way…
Haha, actually I don’t know because I’m on 3 APs at the moment but my doctor won’t acknowledge the fact I feel dumb. I’m only on my 3rd week. But paliperidone works wonders for my concentration…
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I’ve been taking it for over a year in shot form 100 mg once a month. I don’t think it does anything but I don’t have any problems either. I’ve went 4 months without it before and nothing happened.
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I think it works well for that. I dont think i could possibly be manic on haldol (theoretically, im not officially bipolar). It totally slows you down in every way.
I feel stupid right now! Sometimes that can happen…it’s not the end of the world I don’t think.
I’m coming back from benzodiazepine withdrawal. It’s only been a month and a half. It was bad. It’s a work in progress.
I was manic for several months. I want to spend the rest of the year recovering my memory.
Thinking can be hard, getting on antipsychotics like haloperidol immediately, I would imagine, would be a tool in bringing mania to baseline. Still, I want to start rebuilding my memory, as I suffer from different forms of amnesia and memory impairment. Both long and short term.
I think getting on stable Haldol might hamper that process. Rather, I want to bring down the mania, then maintain with something on reserve.
Haldol is a great medication which I’ve never tried. It’s an antipsychotic, I’ve never tried a typical (older gen.) antipsychotic. I’ve tried most atypical antipsychotics. My intrusive thoughts, a manifestation of OCD, were hellish on all of them!
Additionally, depression is something I would like to avoid at all costs. A reemergence of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia in me, symptoms which I suffered with for years, would be very demoralizing for me right now.
I want to continue rebuilding my memory/cognition.
Stopping the mania, for one would help…and if Trileptal can’t offer that, I think Haldol would be a better option than Seroquel.
I think that would be a lot of psychotherapy , are there blackouts where you don’t remember? And you’re trying to ‘amend’ those areas?
I dunno which med is right, heck I’m not sure why I’m on haldol, I think I have acute psychosis is my guess. But your doctor should see what’s best. I know this is harder done than said but finding a good doctor is crucial not just a pill pusher. It can be hard but you can do it researching too, which seems like you’re doing. Good luck , tell us how it goes…
They use Haldol to torture political prisoners in Russia. They give them massive doses of it. I’ve been on 40 mg a day, and it sucked.
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What dose did they start you at to prevent side effects?
I take 5mg twice a day as needed temporarily.
I used to be on 10mg per day, but I had to take Diazepam and Procyclidine to cope with the side effects.
It’s really effective, but has its problems.
Started me on 1.5mg. 
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They didnt care much about side effects. They started me at 5mg. Then sometimes down to 2 or 3mg. I was the one lowering the med - but my current psych is okay with it.
I had Haloperidol tablet 3mg prn it was good stuff really chilled me out but I would ask for double sometimes and it got to the point where it locked my tongue up so I had to remove it from prn
I want to take Haldol, I have a doctors’ appointment next week, I’ll ask him to let me start it at a low dose instead of Seroquel.
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