I unloaded trucks at Sears at breakneck speed for almost four years. I mean not like barrels of nails or lumber or steel girders but heavy stuff like gas grills, lawnmowers, bandsaws, water heaters, refrigerators, washers and dryers and a bunch of other heavy stuff. If you think it doesn’t sound that hard try getting a hand truck and take a refrigerator by yourself from the second floor all the way to the first floor and outside and then load it in a pickup truck by yourself. And then unload a 52’ truck trailer for four hours. I was in my thirties and outworking a bunch of 19 year olds and twenty one year olds.
At the same time, I was going to college and taking weight training. Even the other guys at the board & care I was in at the time who weren’t too thrilled with me, payed me a rare compliment and commented that my arms were getting bigger.
So yes, I was on prolixen and in great shape for about 5 years and my legs were strong too because I walked all over hell and back. (I walked everywhere)
Yes same for me even when I was on Abilify. Also I had periods of very low energy when I was with friends where I would look frozen indifferent to stimuli not listening to them etc, they then tell me did the sz hit you again.
It must be my sz then as we dont have the same symptoms. I am telling you I get moments where I can barely stand on my feet from weakness feeling like falling and this was when I was going to the gym 4-5x a week too. I think its mental and caused by very low energy from my negative symptoms.
I think its sz, sz negatives. Like i was on Invega like you and i was in my prime of strength and going to the gym everyday and working full time. Another theory is getting used to the AP, cause new med and new brainchemistry means adjustment time. When I was put on Invega at first i couldnt imagine going to the gym as i laid in bed the whole time, 3 years passed since me being put on Invega and i was a gym rat again
LS! Hi Aziz! Do you go to the gym? I do. I am 63 and one of the strongest in the gym. According to the website Strengthlevel I have elite strength. Maybe it is because I am a lifetime vegetarian.
No, age is making me physically weak. When I was 60, I could still do yoga’s Temple pose and stay in that pose for as long as required. Now, at 61, I can’t hold the pose for as long as the sequences require. Really sucks.
Sz made me super strong like holding off 4 cops for a few minutes (maybe 1 minute it felt like a long time) before pinning me. Aps made me weak, for instance one summer before aps i rode bike to a swimming hole with a friend and pedalled nonstop the whole way, beat everyone there etc. The next summer on aps I couldnt even finish the ride, couldn’t pedal continuously my heart was pounding, I was dizzy, sweating excessively, couldn’t catch my breath, couldn’t press the pedals down on hills.
@Aziz , your physical weakness is in all likelihood a result of your extreme sedentary lifestyle. Anybody who stays in bed all the time and never gets any exercise is going to inevitably become very physically weak. And possibly even mentally weak as well. As they say, use it or lose it.
Not especially. My physical limitations are generally from a spinal injury or my heart condition. I’ve been walking relentlessly this spring any my legs have visibly toughened up. Older style APs caused painful cramping and tremors, but I don’t have that issue on my low dose of Geodon and no side-effects from the Wellbutrin I’m aware of other than a slight bump to my energy (more of it).