I was put on Haldol 5mg twice a day in the hospital, I’ve been on haldol before and it worked well but I just wanted to see other people’s experiences.
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Good working med, gave me the shakes thought.
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Worked well for my psychosis. Had to be taken off though as it gave me severe dystonia.
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My pdoc says haldol is the best antipsychotic
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Worked good but my pdoc didn’t want me taking it long term for some reason, I’m not sure why.
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I was on it for a year. I had to take procyclidine and diazepam at high doses to cope with the movement problems.
I ended up coming off it.
It’s a very potent and old AP, and it’s really effective.
A shame it has some serious side effects, but not weight gain.
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When I was a younger woman, I was placed on Haldol for the first time, while in the hospital, and I spent the whole night awake and madly pacing the floor around and around in a circle all night. The nurses reported it and I was taken off Haldol the next morning.
I am on the haldol injection and it works very well for me.
Also, I take haldol 10 mg prn when things aren’t going well. This isn’t the only medication I’m on though.
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I was put on haldol on the duration of my hospital stay when docs had to stabilize me. It gave me shakes, pisa effect and slept like a brick. Also had blurred vision to it.
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It gives me blurry vision as well. Sucks.
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I couldn’t almost read a book while I was on it. I had also massive neck spasms that used to lock my head into my shoulder. I was fed a lot of anti Parkinson’s meds that made me have horrible dry mouth and thirst.
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Damn. Were you given cogentin? Because that gives me dry mouth.
So many freaking side effects with these meds.
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I was put on trihexyphenidyl (don’t know what’s the brand name). It stopped the spasms on 5 pills a day of that. I remember I drank 2 litres of water at hespital every night it made me that thirsty. Also took me awhile to fall asleep as dry mouth is irritating. Also it caused me to have confusion similar experiences which are scary.
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Wow, that’s intense. It’s hard to deal with all that kind of stuff.
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In my country, doctors like to give medication shock therapy when you get hospitalized with psychosis. They inject you like a drug mixture of massive dose quatepine, haldol, risperidone, nitrozepam and valium (I’m not kidding) the night before I was hospitalized I had 2 energy drinks and 2 strongest pre-workouts and I also was full blown manic. That injection put me asleep in 2 minutes and I realized the next day afternoon that I am sitting in a hospital hall which was after 2 days. Doctors lie on their script how much they give you meds. They told on the report that they gave me 5mg haldol and 3mg risperidone daily, which wasn’t true. I was put on reality for 20mg haldol and 6mg risperidone daily with extra haldol shots when they get pissed off with my constant walking in the halls. Welcome to Lithuania I guess…
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Haldol was horrible for me. If they want to put me on that drug again they are going to have to catch me first. When I was put on Haldol they originally gave me 40mg daily. It felt horrible. Then they finally had a heart and put me on the decoate shot. It was still horrible, but not as horrible as the 40mg daily. I was on the monthly shot for a few years. They were the worst years of my life.
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Wow.
When I was just in the hospital when I first went on the ward I was injected with haldol, Benadryl, and Ativan. Right off the bat. It did knock me out.
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Where you from? When I was treated in UK they put me on 2mg risperidone and was becoming better with days, but docs in Lithuania decided still hospitalized me
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Dang that really sucks you were still hospitalized.
I’m from the US.
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I take Cogentin just at night sometimes because that’s usually when the akathisia bothers me. If I only take it once a day, it usually doesn’t give me too bad of a dry mouth at all.
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