Can negative symptoms improve on their own?

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After how many years?

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I didn’t because I don’t have a medical plan that will cover the cost. It’s pretty expensive!

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A couple of years full of negatives.
Now more positives, no negatives

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Even geodon was costing me 300 a month. Risperidone is cheap tho

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No generic? For Latuda my Dr made me sign a paper to request coverage of Latuda costs by the government and it was accepted. I think I was paying about 50$/month for 80mg, same as Abilify non generic. There is no generic Latuda yet.

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When you say they disappeared do you live a typical normal life? Like motivation and drive is there to learn things and stuff?

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That was 300 a month for the generic lol

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Well my current issue is I make more than the allotted amount where they would cover the cost. And before that I had too much money saved to be allowed on the disability pay so it was a bit of a mess.

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Well, in my case, they coincided with the positive symptoms. When I had positives I didn’t feel like doing things. I don’t know if the medications wiped the negatives out, or the negatives went away when positives went away.

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Not me, my negative and cognitive symptoms started 3yrs before my first positive symptoms.

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Oh my cognitive symptoms started way before my diagnosis. Possible 6-7 years of gradual decline. I think either I have ADD or sever cognitive symptoms.

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Aziz, I feel dumb asking this, as you probably already have tried this, but have you given NAC a shot? It sort of works for my negatives, well some days it does and others it doesn’t. But for me I have to take fairly high doses to break through the inflammation in my brain.

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I tried lots of supplements including NAC. NAC made me itchy. The only supplement that worked for me is Ldopa from Mucuna Pruriens but it made my positive symptoms worse as it increases dopamine. Once I took 7 pills of 60mg Ldopa and I started hearing voices.

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You need to push yourself and get moving.

Your family is very kind to allow u to sleep in bed all day.

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They try to motivate me but fail. I was the same in mental hospital and the Dr begged me to get out of bed and not sleep all day.

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I hate staying in bed but have no choice.

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Interesting. I’m still considering l-dopa mucuna. Only problem is I don’t really know for sure that I have schizophrenia. The thing is I don’t have thoughts in my head, and it’s really concerning. It causes me to think only of suicide. I should probably make a topic asking if anyone else doesn’t have thoughts in their head. Actually I think I already did that. It just doesn’t make sense unless it’s a negative symptom of schizophrenia, but it’s a very severe one if it is. My idea is that I have a lot of inflamation in my brain, but perhaps I’m also deficient in dopamine.

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and same here, I mostly just stay in bed all day.

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Clearly not hard enough.

You stuck a rut and keep telling yourself you cant do anything. Get on some anti depressants and stop blaming the negatives.

Start with small changes and grow on them. Unless you are shiiting in your bed then i apologise. If you are not then get up and push yourself instead of waiting for some cure.

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I wish it was that easy. My Drs won’t prescribe antidepressants, they say I am not depressed and that I have negative symptoms instead. He tried Wellbutrin bcz it increases dopamine but it made my positive symptoms worse and had insomnia. Many psychiatrists tried to fix me but they failed so don’t think its possible or easy.

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