All good doing well with the keto and it’s a bit of work and not sure the long term implications but I’m locked in.
Meanwhile. On lowest clinical dose of zyrpexa. I will wait for a bit but would like to try a sub clinical dose eventually but meanwhile I’m on 150 mgs of effexor the antidepressant and I’m keen to try a lower dose.
I’m not sure the lowest clinical dose but I’m interested if your on less. It really is the med that works for me and can’t live without it but it’s also pretty brutal with side effects so coming down in dose would be cool.
I’m keen to give it a go so interested in your experiences.
Would recommend you be extremely careful and watch for symptoms and go back up as necessary. I went below recommended dose for schizophrenia for over a year and then went through 3 months of psychosis. It did not work for me. I spent a good chunk of the past year between psychosis and recovery because of it.
I am on minimum recommended for schizophrenia of Vrayler atm.
i stopped taking an ad after a few month and i am without it since one year. no problem. less weight gain, a little bit better kognition (ad sedate for me as well) and no nightmares anymore i took sertraline
Is your dr ok with it? My dr once took me off my meds for 2yrs, I ended up going to mental hospital at the end as I was suffering. Last month I stopped cold turkey for 10 days but then went back on meds as I felt symptoms started to return. Life off meds is possible for me but its mental torture
Sorry for late reply but getting through a bit less and miss a lot of things…Yeah I’m on lowest ap but keen to come down in ad again. Went from a big dose of 300 down to 150 so next goal is 75. Feeling good enough to ask tomorrow when I see the shrink…
Yeah it’s cool. The next dose is half so keen to give it a try. Have heaps of scripts of the 150 left so if I go down to 75 I have some back up if I need to go up again.
Yeah. Talking to him tomorrow about just this. With the diet and mental health I think he’ll be onboard so will let ya’ll know but it’s worth a shot.
i hade some zyprexa tabs on hand that I still fell back on after stopping meds.
It was always a thing of last resort in those crisis scenarios.
Eat well, maintain getting ample sleep, try to avoid anything in abundance…
Most of my crisis states were always brought out by espresso and lacking sleep.
Id try everything, long baths or showers… finding a good movie to sort of zone me out of the world.
Gah it was such a struggle… still is at times but my life is pretty simple and its easy to navigate… either physically or temporally. Never to far away from time and space to decompress… except when at work but thats also temporary.
I can still recall it vividly… having a day where within a few hours I could feel it all creeping up on me. anything I had to do would start stressing me out… neurotic thinking would ramp, hallucinations would follow. Fear myself slipping right back into psychosis… wired and afraid… helpless to trust anyone. Those were the times where id call out of work, or reach out to my mother, do whatever I had to do to get home…
Then pop a zyprexa… can’t remember the dose but it was prescribed to take as needed. Then id be asleep within an hour and wake up 17 hours later… mentally restored but super hungry… super duper hungry… couldn’t eat enough for a day.
I’m not on meds and i still have some issues. I can still hear those whining voices behind my ceiling fan as always. People are too much for me to handle sometimes… gotta just grin and bare it. That’s just life.
I do keep track of everything though. How much ive slept, how much coffee Ive had… what have I been eating. keeping that framework alive in the mind helps put the ups and downs in context.
I really agree with you Aziz. Life off or on to low antipsychotic is totally torture. Brother let’s support each others and all the other members on this forum to stay concordent(compliment) with their meds.
i took sertraline