I’m 30. I don’t want the voices to ever return & im wondering if the meds can just stop working. It feels nice to finally have my sanity back. As long as the voices stay away I can live a pretty normal life. Can they work for many years to come?
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They can stop working but its rare. You can just try another med by then
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Ive heard that as you get older you might need a lower dose of medication because you naturally produce less dopamine, or something. I have also heard that meds can stop working if you lower your dose and then go back up again.
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I think with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, you probably need some kind of medication to control the side effects of the disorder. I’m bipolar and my son has schizophrenia. We both have had to change meds a lot over time. It’s hard to find drugs that work for him that don’t have awful side effects and mine will work for awhile, then I’ll need something else. It is really important to have a good doctor who knows medications for your illness and will see you at least once or twice a month. The short answer is yes, I think you need some kind of medication for the rest of your life because it is not going to get better. Hope this helps.
Cross fingers I’v been on Clopixol for nearly 30 years and Qutiapine for 10 years. Ageing surely is the main reason for that I could come off the Ziprasidone I’d used for 20 years. T hat was an almost an impossible task and I should as a matter of fact be dead because of that. The last couple of months I’ve tapered down in a Seroquel from 900 to 600 mg. And the last 10 years I’ve tapered my Clopixol down from 300 Clopixol week Lu to 500 mg by weekly - 400 mg by weekly - 500 mg 3. Weekly.
Finally I’ll say that I’ve got few psychotic symptoms and few side effects. In some areas I’m high functioning and in others low functioning.
I have now committed to staying on my current dose and type of antipsychotics for as long as I live.
I never was court ordered to take meds so I did that from own free will.
I’ve only used a little bit of alcohol on rare occasion and never tried narcotics not even weed.
But I smoke cigarets like a chimney and drink loads of coffee.
My father was an alcoholic for all of his life and died of cancer while having Lewis Boddies dementia age 76 years(rest in peace). My mother is still a life and is medicated for Schizophrenia. I did mum grocery for here today and at the shopping male I met a homeless Eastern European girl who I gave 9 US dollars in X mad gift.(Den søde piich) translated from local native southern Danish That sweet Girl.
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