I once tried quitting my Invega. Was back in the hospital after 6 months. I guess I’m stuck with them. Still hope to lower the dose one day.
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The problem is that they are around here.
My last hospital stay was when I stopped my meds 6yrs ago and I am not going off meds again even in 50yrs.
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I have never taken meds for schizophrenia. I am less delusional now than I was previously. I think exercise and journaling helped me some. It is good to have a job, but don’t stay, if they are abusive in some way.
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I went off my meds in March and it was…a bad time. Anytime I’ve tried going off my meds it ends with me in the hospital, back on meds
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Med treatment only made me worse. I wonder that id be doing better overall if I got other treatments instead.
I tried going off Zyprexa and I felt like my brain was on fire and worse. I don’t foresee myself coming off meds anytime soon. I haven’t even been hospitalized for 5 years. But I want it to stay that way. I absolutely cannot stand hospitals. I hate being sent to the hospital. I don’t feel safe in the hospital at all.
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I never had hallucinations or delusions or hearing voices I’m hoping my pdoc will approve me to drawl off meds for a while to see hows it goes I hope it will be fine.
I had a huge setback 10 months after I stopped. Lost my house. This is the 500th post on the topic.
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Over the last 17 years I have become psychotic whenever I lower my meds too much, go on a new med that doesn’t work, or quit my meds. Now that I have a med that works without side effects I will never go off it.
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I always seem to think people must have a massive set of balls to come off their meds - knowing that possibly you will become symptomatic again - and go thru the hell of psychosis.
99% of the time i never think its a good idea. I always think you gotta be stable for a number of years before you try such a stunt.
Most of the time, its the meds that are keeping them well - and yet say “im fine” lets come off em. Only to be in a worse position than before.
Its like people conveniently forget the trauma they were in before they went on them.
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I know someone right now who is trying. He’s using licorice and B6 because his online research led him to believe they would help with dopamine. The only person I know in person who got totally well off meds must have had a gluten allergy, because she used to hear voices all the time and now she’s a therapist and gluten free.
The main natural way to improve your dopamine is to eat plenty of protein, in chicken fish and eggs. Its why i have 5 boiled eggs in the morning.
Its easily googled. Vit B complex is good too - but Omega 3 fish oil, at least 2000mg a day for your EHA is also helpful for brain function.
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I had a question about eggs
Is the egg yolk bad for health like for heart bcoz of the cholesterol
Have heard so so asking
@steffifan No not usually. Heres a quick article
https://www.heartuk.org.uk/low-cholesterol-foods/can-i-eat-eggs
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Thx for the article
Yes it says it’s safe
but it also says 3-4 eggs a week is fine
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I had my cholerstol checked about 4 months ago and it was a “2”. Your more likely to get it from that late night takeaway from a saturday night out. And i been eating loads of boiled eggs for years. Its gonna be different obviously if you fry them tho.
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Ok good for u
What’s 2 of cholesterol
Take care
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Nope, I need my meds to keep me mostly sane.
Off meds, I purposely tumbled out of a moving vehicle (20 MPH). It made sense in my psychotic-manic mind. But I broke my finger.
I’ll stick with my meds.
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Hmm. . .
That Sounds Treacherously Painful.
And Also Not Good In The Slightest.
Lord Knows I’ve Been Through Some Severe Pain To An Extent.
Psychological, And Physical.
But!, Breaking Those Bones Seems Highly Illogical.
I’m Witchu, Med’s And Taking Them Seems More Extraordinary, And Pleasant.
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