NEVER decrease your meds without your pdoc’s approval. I’ve done this and currently feel quite delusional. I feel just like when I was first developing sz. I might be in the hospital sometime this week. I’ve just taken a prn, hopefully that will do something. If not I’m definitely going back to my normal dose. How could I have been so stupid?! I seriously don’t feel okay right now! Hopefully 200mg Seroquel does something!
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why you decreased your dose?
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I thought it would make me feel better/faster. And it did. But I also started noticing patterns in everything again, and everything seems all wavy. My mind is racing. So psychosis is coming back strong! I hope I don’t go over the edge!
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when I decreased my dose voices got powerful and intense again, felt suicidal. now I increased my dose and waiting to kick in. it was my mistake
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I’m planning on lowering my dose.
Im pretty confident
Even with pdoc approval decreasing can be dangerous.
I’ve found that if X mg of AP works, it is best to stick with that amount.
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Don’t do it without your pdoc, they can help you.
You have to understand for the past several months I was in side effects hell, I couldn’t sit still etc. So i made a mistake in going behind my pdocs back which i regret.
When I decreased my risperdal from 3 mg dose to 2 mg dose my pdoc has me coming every 4 weeks for an appointment. Eventually I went psychotic and had to re-up meds back to 3 mg.
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I made a much more serious leap from10 to 5mg aripiprazole, 5mg doesn’t treat psychosis very well so here I am. I’m kind of determined to stick it out and see if I can last another week.
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Yes I did the same. For months, I felt great. Now… now? Well, I will soon be prescribed Clozapine…
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only 3? I take 12
I think I can withstand on 5 mg Ablify but it is not antipsycotic. Some how my psychiatric doctor reduced it to 2.5 mg and Lithozon SR 200 mg with it.
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I think if u have enough positive symptoms. .its risky to lower ur dose of anti psychotic. .
I was successfully taper my dose from 4mg to 3mg. . I will go until 2mg… let see…
I would like to say i have nil positive symptoms…■■■■ sz…
I was on 3 mg twice a day.
Had probs with that med now I’m on geodon
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I’m really delusional now, feeling worse for wear. Im going straight to sleep, didn’t sleep all night. Feeling terrified and crazy.
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Is the sensation of everything going all wavy a sign of psychosis?
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Why try to stick it out? It’s not working. Go back to what did work.
It’s lucky that you’re aware of it, but why suffer?
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I was suffering with unbearable side effects for months. Everyone ignored my complaints so I decided I might as well take my meds as I saw fit. I only did this because no one, even my pdoc, seems to care about my mental health or medication regimen at all. So I was kind of bitter.
I can understand that.
Maybe they feel like nothing can be done, but being ignored sucks.
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