After trying 3 antipsychotics I got put on an old school antipsychotic called Trilafon. I noticed that after a few days I can concentrate, get things done, I am not constantly in a daydream, and I am more relaxed. I am very sceptical towards meds, so I don´t think it´s a placebo effect…
So I was wondering, has anyone else experienced these type of benefits? The others I took, abilify, risperdal, seroquel just knocked me out and I couldn´t care less about anything when on them. But Trilafon activates me. Does this mean it works?
I am interested in other people´s experiences. I will see my Pdoc in Two weeks so I can´t ask him about it yet!
sounds like you found a good med for you maybe, i found the right med for me too, i hope you continue to feel like this and keep the doctor well informed about your progress
Meds are different for everybody. Abilify is really the only one that worked for me. But if I don’t take the supplement l-theanine or a benzo, then I can’t cope with the side effects of restlessness and anxiety.
I’m slowly (Very slowly) coming off the benzos and using l-theanine full time.
That’s just the combo that works for me, and might not work for someone else.
It just depends on the med and the person. First generation antipsychotics I think treated positive symptoms better by default, but did nothing for negative symptoms. Second generation is kinda better at treating negative symptoms, kinda. I take Latuda currently and Sarcosine daily. The latter greatly improved my negative and cognitive symptoms by far, to a point I’ve never been to before in my life.
Thankyou for info, that´s probably why these New meds are working, because I have few negative symptoms and mainly positive ones. Why didn´t my Pdoc tell me this…