Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia

Hi, I’m back and hope none of you will mind me staying on the Forum until I see my Psychiatrist in early April.

I’m very confused about Schizophrenia and whether I’m just imagining I have it similar as I did with MS. I’m doing ok on the Abilify, still not sleeping, still shuffling, off balance and the pain in my legs is the same. The ringing, buzzing, in my ears is the same and sometimes I feel as if a fullness comes in my ears and then it goes again. That’s happening since 2014. Before I took the Abilify, I was hearing like my phone was vibrating with messages, but it wasn’t any time I checked.

I’m still very tense. I might get back the CPAP to put me to sleep? It did put me to sleep better I think, but I still had all the same fullness in my head and fatigue while using it. I definitely feel I have more get up and go, my concentration is a bit better and I’m a little bit more motivated. It’s the restless sleep that’s not helping.

I do have a couple of genetic risk variants on my DNA. I had a DNA test done for Ancestry purposes but at the time it included health reports as well so it’s interesting to see all the different variations in my DNA, but it doesn’t necessarily mean I’m going to develop anything!

I do have quite a few bad reputes where schizophrenia is concerned, but I have quite a few on lots of other things as well. I don’t read too much into them. Is there usually a genetic inheritance for Schizophrenia?

Hope you guys won’t mind I hanging around a bit longer until I talk to my psychiatrist. I have no idea if I have traits of schizophrenia or not. I think I’m hearing a lot of giving out in my head. I then say leave me alone, sometimes using bad language, but I don’t know if I’m just giving out to me in my head, like giving out to my thoughts. I can’t tell or decipher what’s in my head us real or not real. It’s scary but I’m probably imagining all this, that’s what I’m telling myself.

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Thank you zeno. I don’t know if anyone had schizophrenia in my family. I don’t have unfortunately much family history. There was a sister if my maternal grandfather that was always serious looking and she never spoke very much. She just used to go and do things in my great grandmother house. I don’t remember much else because I only visited that house as a young child. I’m not saying she had schizophrenia. She was just different I thought. Very serious looking and never said much.