My negative symptoms are manageable. They’re there and sometimes I can’t watch movies or TV shows because of the negative and cognitive symptoms, but my energy is overall much better than when I was on Invega Sustenna and when I was on Caplyta.
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My niece has thyroid problems.
Thanks for the info @Blossom
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yea it sucks. I had to take lithium and it slowed down my thyroid and then i had to start taking the l-thyroxine, pdoc says i will have to take that med for my whole life now.
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My niece’s thyroid problems stress her out, along with my sister. My niece. Will be on thyroid meds for the rest of her life.
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Over the years I have had many Doctors, they all have a different opinion on what’s going on, one even took me off meds , which ended badly
SZA, I am happy with as it seems to be the best fit, but labels really don’t mean much to me
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i’m glad i don’t have to take the lithium anymore. It is like only med i ever had to take that i’m really grossed out with. It tasted weird when i had to take it and then it messed up my thyroid too.
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Originally diagnosed as hebephrenic/disorganized, got switched to paranoid SZ over time as I improved, and accidentally picked up an Asperger’s Syndrome label along the way.
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My first diagnosis was simply major depression; that psychiatrist was wayyyyy off. Then it was bipolar with psychotic features, then schizoaffective bipolar-type. It took me many years before I would accept schizoaffective as my dx; I didn’t want to be schizo- anything, but I eventually accepted it. I just can’t believe my first psychiatrist couldn’t see the psychosis in me; looking back I’ve had psychosis since I was 15, just didn’t get on an AP until I was 23, but yeah, really I’ve had schizoaffective for 26 years. I’m 41 years old now.
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Diagnosed Paranoid Sz type coming up for 8 years now.
Tho i reckon i had it alot longer - but without the drugs then - i had no insight so couldnt tell you.
I cried for a couple of hours when they finally told me - Out of sheer bloody relief. I had something to work on, and could begin the process of recovery. Knowing you were not alone in your symptoms, was a bloody god send.
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Dx Bipolar Affective Disorder but pdoc has mentioned having a “working hypothesis” of sza bp type.
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The summer of 1980 I smoked some pot with a friend. I had a psychotic break that lasted until January 1981. A clean former drug addict said it sounded like I got some PCP with the pot. I just assumed that’s what the psychosis was. I was 21 then.
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Oh yeah, and my current psychiatrist tells me I have PTSD.
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Yeah, back in 2016 I smoked some weed that turned out to have PCP in it; what a bad experience that was, ended up in the ER that night thinking I was heading into another psychotic break, thought I was losing my damn mind. That’s how I know it was PCP; I tested positive for it on the drug test they administered in the ER.
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I didn’t go to the hospital until January 1981. They put me in the psych ward a few days, then released me. My friend who smoked the same pot didn’t have any problems.
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Currently sza bipolar type. In the past it’s been any thing as simple as anxiety disorder, or bipolar to major depressive with psychotic features.
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I went and saw a pdoc at my mom’s insistence. The pdoc diagnosed me SzA.
The psych hospital doctors diagnosed me with schizoaffective and so did my last pdoc and therapist.
It’s a toss up between bipolar and SZA
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Thanks Wave. 1515
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Other: Sz/anxiety
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