I was diagnosed schizophrenia 2 years ago. The first year I did not take meds at all an was in and out various times to mental care hospitals. This year I started to take them. They prescribed me Invega and Haldol. I felt horrible but was not aggressive. Then around June they gave me clozapine. I’ve been taking it since then but I still hear voices of people I used to go to school with. They sound angry and usually make fun of me.They say I deserve to die. I also think that the white devil is my punishment for being a bad kid and my destiny is to be taken to hell by him. I feel Gods wrath upon me. He wants me to die. This is an every day thing. And I’m taking clozapine, the most effective antipsychotic. Should I wait more time for clozapine to do a better effect?
Didn’t work for me either, have you told your treatment team that it isn’t working?
Welcome to the forum!!! Let your pdoc know it’s not working. That’s the best thing you can do
Just because it works for a lot of people didn’t mean it works for everyone. There are still a lot of meds you haven’t tried yet.
I think clozapine works in my case.
I have no visions and I have few voices
What dose are you on ? I think the max dose is 900mg/day. Maybe they could up your dose?
My understanding that here in the U.K. the gold standard treatment for resistant case is polypharmacy of clozapine combined with amisulpride
Clozapine is the hardest antipsychotic for schizophrenic.If your on a highest dose,the doctor might be able to add another antipsychotic or antidepressant to help.
I relapse recently and took only 5mg Olanzapine,but GF suggest injection towards me.I am kinda worried as I have never tried injection
I was on 600 but reduced to 400 because my knees would get weak and I would sleep about 16 to 18 hours.
I told my social worker. She said she will tell the psychiatrist.
Clozapine takes longer than most APs to have full effects. Having said that not all meds work the same for everyone. Discuss it with your pdoc.
Wow this sounds like mine where my voices say I am a loser that’s gonna get tortured by white people after death
Meds dont work for me to