After being on them for a long time? When I stopped meds for 2yrs my negative symptoms were worse than before being put on meds. When I took a dopamine supplement Ldopa my negative symptoms improved more than when I was off meds but ended up getting irritability and hearing voices after a week on 420mg ldopa.
Its scary if they really damage dopamine receptors as I will never be the same as before being on meds.
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Ldopa is the only thing other than Abilify that got me out of bed and hangout with my friends. I was also showering more and playing more video games, better concentration.
Im thinking about going back on it, I dont care about psychosis anymore honestly as long as I dont have negative symptoms.
From where did you get ldopa? Isn’t it used for Parkinsons and Alzheimer’s?
Have you tried modafinil?
From a supplement but I dont recommend doing what I am doing as it may worsen psychosis.
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Correction, it will likely worsen psychosis.
Your dopamine receptor permanently changed and they will never fixed again.so stay at your medicine man.good luck.and stay away from ldopa.its really dangerous
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Who knows. It’s a good question. But hard to know…
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Yeah I wouldn’t mess with the stuff tbh.i was thinking about l dopa but no way would I touch the stuff I would probably be climbing up the walls.I would stay on the meds they are given for a reason.what about trying another drug. Their might be different drugs you can try
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Do you have any evidence to back that up? Any links or anything…I’d be interested to see some concrete proof of this. Would like to know one way or another.
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All I know is that stopping your antipsychotic abruptly or tapering off of it too quickly can cause psychosis.
I think that this may have happened to me 5 years ago when I tapered off of Risperdal in under 2weeks.
I’m not sure though.
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I think that would point to dopamine receptors NOT being permanently damaged. Because if they were, I would think it would be harder to slip into psychosis. I have heard of course of dopamine hypersensitivity after quitting drugs abruptly.
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What’s your opinion @Aziz ? Do you think they do or don’t damage them permanently?
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Antipsychotics are usually a lifelong treatment. I think your body gets so used to them that you can never go off if you’ve been on a high dose for a long time. I might be wrong though but I feel stuck
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I dont know, its why I am asking. I dont want to stop meds again to find out and even then I wont be the same as before sz bcz of positive symptoms.
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No i don t but one doctor told me once in a time
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