yes, we can think it’s all gonna go away but I’m 12 years into this and it just doesn’t let up!
I suspect I will be on them for life, yes. Every time I go off of them, I go side ways.
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Does prolixin make you feel tired??
If I stop taking the meds the voices become overpowering. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
I’m only 21, so life has plenty of room to change in directions I cant imagine, but I have no current plans to stop my antipsychotic.
Worried about if I ever decide I want to be pregnant.
I suspect i will always need emergency meds to deal with flare ups. I do hope i can quit daily meds though. I hope to stay on 0.5mg haldol for maybe 3 months more and then quit. I really do hope it works.
I feel so much more whole with less meds. There is way more pain, but also more joy, love, empathy, fire. My friend also just told me that he likes me loads better on this current dose.
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I plan on being on them for life
I used to be good on .5 and sometimes .25mg Haldol but now ive had to go up to 1mg because of some triggers… Sucks that I can’t control outside forces.
Probably 
I understand…I need more when im triggered too. In such case, because haldol works immediately in me, i knock myself out with 2 or 3mg for a few days and thus sleep 24/7. After that i go back to my regular dose and the scary thoughts take a while to fully fade, but im not out of control.
I feel terrible when I take 2mg+… start to feel tired, and very bad…
Yes me too. On 2mg+ I either sleep, stare into space feeling sad and empty, or research painless suicide (not an exaggeration).
But…a few days of that does prevent a ride to the nearest ward. Where they lock me up, put me on 5mg/day for months and somehow delude themselves into thinking that makes me feel better.
I believe I won’t be on them for life. Positivity is important.
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I think I will need them for life. I honestly don’t want to stop them because if I take my geodon dose late I start withdrawing pretty quickly. I just don’t ever want to be psychotic again.
I really am not sure.
At this point in time. Apparently 50 percent go on without med out of people who get psychosis after initial med treatment I’ll bring up the source:
… So here it says this in the treating psychosis section
To be honest I don’t know. It is my biggest question at the moment.
I hear about all these people on 5, 10, or 20 mg of Haldol and I don’t know how they do it.
I think I’m a lifer too. I’ve given up trying to come off them a long time ago. All previous attempts ended near disastrously. However, the pharmacist at our last meeting said we have to arrange a meeting with her and the GP to see if there is a better way. I hope this is not an NHS initiative to take people off long prescriptions.
Me neither.
But people of course have different sensitivity to meds. Someone i spoke to needed elephant doses for it to have effect.