is anyone else on haldol depot? i think it’s not working as well as it was and it’s not even been a year this time for these shots and they’re a lot. i am afraid to mention at day program because they’ll increase and i already have to take cogentin. i’ve been on everything save abilify because it creates exacerbated agitation supposedly and i don’t have choice in the matter. i can’t go back into the hospital again so soon and voices are status quo and not demanding, but how can i be sure? i also take zyprexa but not too much. cheers
I had a lot of time to research meds when I was recovering. Supposedly everytime the psychosis and voices come back, it gets a little harder to treat them, dose have to go up and stuff. You might need to up your haldol. I have heard really good stuff about abilify maybe you could get an antianxiety drug to quell the agitation on top of abilify. I know these drugs suck and adding more meds might be risky to your liver, but its a sucky card to be dealt in life.
When more meds make life uncomfortable or create a huge adjustment in your mindset for instance too much weigh gain or feeling no emotions it might help to youtube people who have it worse off than you. Kinda shocks the mind into accepting the circumstance a little bit. For instance some people have treacher collins syndrome and cant even close their eyelids, have to breath from a trach, and some have to go through yearly surgeries for facial reconstruction. Imagine how uncomfortable those people feel on a daily basis.
Then again us schizophrenics are kinda unlucky because most of us had the good stuff at one point, the “sanity” and the ability to take things like emotions, sex drive or body image for granted. Having it taken away from us later on in life really sucks ass because most of us have a perspective of what our brain should feel like. In any case, its one of those things in life it ■■■■■■■ sucks and I wish they would invent a cure for schizophrenia… until then focusing on the fortunate fact that we have eyesight puts some perspective on it. at least we dont have to learn to adjust with something as serious as having our eyesight taken away as some might. We just have to adjust to getting fat, losing our dick, and feeling pleasure and emotions in some cases when we up meds.
Your mind will adjust to the new uncomfortable-ness of upping your haldol (unless you can find a proper med combo outside of this) and youll accept it i guess. I hope you dont have to give up too much of your humanity on these drugs, but letting the psychosis build is just causing more problems for you in the future, and making the possibility of needing a higher dose even worse each time it returns it causes more brain damage.
Be safe though and force that doctor to check your liver enzymes and hormone levels each time you go to the doctor. Risperdone causes pituatary tumors and your liver can be seriously damaged from depakote. Doctors all think these meds are pleasant and safe, discounting the side effects and struggle we have against them
i don’t know quoting but since i’ve been diagnosed and on off meds for twenty years are you saying what? i know i’m “treatment resistant” after the clozaril failed. and before i guess as because that’s why i was put on it. that was two years ago now. wow i’ve lost a lot of time. it has been harder to stop things each time but
oh are you being like bottom line saying there’s no hope to stop? i get that i just need to not try and dig out wires and ■■■■ or they’ll put me in.
anyway, yes i could ask about anti anxiety things, but if i request medication they will definitely know something is awry as that’s not something i’ve a history with doing. i take ativan for staving off catatonia already so maybe you mean something else? i don’t have orders anymore so I feel like maybe i’m everything is fine really. my dose is already 300 mg every three weeks and that seems to see like a lot. i’m also just tired of the med go round and i don’t want to waste any more of my life in the hospital. the zyprexa seems more reasonable in dosage. it’s twenty.
i can’t watch surgeries though that’ll mess with me. i don’t watch videos or television in general. i don’t want them accessing me. thank you for your reply and your honesty.
im sorry your going throughs so much dude. just tell your psychiatrist, some people are so treatment resistant that they cant take enough meds without causing liver issues and tarditive dyskinesia. how come haldol though and not a newer med? have you tried newer?
i am also on zyprexa daily and yes have taken other atypicals. except not abilify for why and when
wait i lost my train of thought there.
i am on compulsory depot injections and risperdal and invega weren’t good for me and prolixin
i kinda forget why now sorry but had to switch off and on to haldol which was doing what it could and zyprexa helps the formal thought disorder clanging or so forth. sorry it’s not my best day and afternoon.
i hope i answered your question in there. going to maybe nap a bit my head needs rest. cheers
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