Apparantly all reddit just hate haldol. Because mainly of TD. Its a miracle drug cause as a depot it has the lowest drowsiness scaling (some report like 0,7 out of 10 drowsiness) like quetiapine has something like 8/10. A lot of peoplr praise abilify and vraylar and geodon cause of stimulation. Actually those atypicals caused crazy anxiety and insomnia. I like my haldol, literally no side effects, weight neutral also. Dont have any TD, I actually had some akathisia and TD on risperidone.
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I likes haldol. I was doing fine on it. I will never understand why my pdoc took me off it. But I’m doing fine now so I guess she was right. But there was nothing wrong with the haldol.
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What AP are you now? Sadly my psychiayrist believes that dopamine modulators like abilify and vraylar wont be effective cause i suffer from mania also, but allows antidepressant use. I tried cymbalta, but found too activating. For me only neutral or low drowsy meds are the best. Thats why im back on lexapro cause its neither drowsying neither activating
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I take Saphris at bedtime and Rexulti in the morning
Same here it’s a absolute miracle for me and I almost refused it due to the sh*t I read on the internet
I know right? Low dose im like 50mg depot every month and 0 positives, helps agitation a lot also
I had horrible EPS symptoms on that drug, and the pdoc started me on Diazepam and Procyclidine to help and I was on those drugs for long after I quit
Just have to accept that every experiences these drugs differently
Haldol is potent and effective, but at a cost for many
I frankly don’t hate any antipsychotics wheater they are old or new ones because I know that one persons choice of meds can be another person’s poison.
My psychiatrist says haldol is the best med
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Clozapine for the win
I had my worst medication experience with Haldol. I was sedated beyond belief so I couldn’t function, it gave me horrible anxiety and panic attacks, it gave me EPS. I know it’s helpful for others but wasn’t the one for me