Has anyone had their voices, images, thought insertions go away from meds? all the way? most of the way? please

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has anyone had their voices, images, thought insertions go away from meds? all the way? most of the way? please

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Latuda is working well for me .

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Hi Unk,

My positive symptoms went away with abilify, but I still suffer quite a bit from negative symptoms.

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You may get lucky and they do vanish, it may take time, perhaps a year for someone who is severe. Clean up your anxiety and it will take pressure off the brain/body.

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I’m on a Latuda / Seroquel combo… the thought insertions and the visual hallucinations faded a lot…
The voices also faded…

Therapy has helped me ignore them and it’s getting better.

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I’m on Invega Sustenna (Xeplion in the EU) and my delusions and hallucinations faded

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I’m on abilify. I never head voices or hallucinated, but had thought insertion amongst everything else, and that went away completely.

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Hi @Unk, I’m on Saphris and my hallucinations went away with the proper dosage.

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what are thought insertions exactly?

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My positive symptoms are quelled except for the occasional paranoid thought.

I have a problem with some negative symptoms/sleeping too much with the medicine.

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I’m on invega sustenna and my delusions and voices are mostly gone, but my intrusive thoughts are still alive and kicking.

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It took zyprexa and college. So about a year and a half after starting zyprexa

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I think the reference is to compulsive unwanted thoughts

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thanks for the tip

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Based on the pamphlet I read on schizophrenia at my psychiatrist’s office, most schizophrenics continue to “hallucinate” on a regular basis while on antipsychotic drugs. For me, the drugs never stopped it. If anything, the drugs make a more clear telepathic signal. It is like HD audio compared to analogue.

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I have to say that everything went away when I was on Clozaril except the side effects were so bad I had to go off them. I literally was like a drugged out zombie. I could watch tv all day or listen to music and I was lost in it without voices, images…etc. The problem was that when I slept (which was a lot of the time) I couldn’t even have the strength to get up and go to the bathroom. I went right there in my bed. #1 and #2.

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I’m also on Latuda but my thoughts got clearer from risperdal too

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I’m on Geodon, Xanax and proporanolol and they help. There is no cure, but they help. I function above average because of the meds- otherwise I can’t focus well enough to work to my potential but I have an athletic advantage off meds, an insane level of energy. Literally. Insane. Registered.

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One of the best things that happened to me is that the doctor said nothing would completely get rid of my voices although meds would calm them down. So now I have a working "relationship’ with my voices with the understanding that I can’t get rid of them and they can’t get rid of me so as long as I take the meds we get along as best as can be expected. I am also learning to live with other previously unacceptable things in my life and things are calming down over all. I hope it stays that way.

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Geodon did it for me for a while, but it had harsh side effects.