Have meds ever made you even worse off

When i took that revolting Invega sustenna crap i was convinced that the nurses in the hospital were working in cahoots with a person who lives down the road from me.

I believed i was going to get sold as a sex slave, They had to drag me into hospital.

That sucked

Did you ever get worse off by certain meds

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Zyprexa made me crazy paranoid. Or maybe it was risperdol? I don’t even remember anymore. But I think it was one of those.

Yes. Seroquel made me worse. Everybody reacts differently to each med and seroquel is a miracle med for some people here.

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Lexapro helps with my anxiety but is awful for my depression.

Yeah Abilify made me worse.

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when i was on fanapt, the second and third time on risperidone, invega and the last time on haldol.

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When I was like 10 or so I was put on amitriptyline for depression and it made me hallucinate worse than anything I’ve experienced since. Or maybe it just felt worse because I wasnt used to it yet. But it was really bad.

Harrpriponal respiridone made me have seizure like symptoms and caused my eyes to role to the back of my head uncontrollably .it was an horrific experience now I’m on olanzapine which is all good so far apart from some weight gain issues .it hasn’t stopped the voices but they are not as prominent as before and the intrusive thought are down to a minimum helping me to function throughout the day

Depakote gave me these exact symptoms. I think they called them “atypical seizures.” I have a very bad history with mood stabilizers so I don’t no why they keep giving me them. The last ones I was on (I don’t remember what they are called) made me sleep like 20 hours a day. Now I’m just on a anti-psych/SSRI combo and it’s great.

What dose olanzapine u on?

Olanzapine made me suicidal and paranoid, and I took an overdose which nearly killed me, and it gave my blood glucose levels very high as well, only thing good about it is that it made me sleep at night.
I was much better on the Olanzapine when I took it with an antidepressant.

Abilify gave me visual hallucinations, and latuda gave me bi-polar like symptoms. The first one led to one Psych Ward visit. The second led to 4.

I started on 5 ml now I’m on 10 there eventually going to move me up to 15 then 20 but they want to take it slow because of the sensitivity to that previous meds. I take that along with 45 ml mirtazipine the it’s the best combination I have taken so far tbh never want to feel the adverse sides again what meds u on ? It’s good to have someone who can relate to my symptoms they said it was rare my pd said it was the second case he had seen in 20 years

Right now I’m on 10 mg of Celexa and a constantly fluctuating dosage of Abilify, ranging from 5 to 20 mg at the moment, but could go higher soon. It’s an amazing combination and I feel completely stable for the first time in what feels like forever. They can’t figure out the dosages though, because what works on me keeps changing.

The main thing to watch out for if the seizures persist is your breathing. Mine eventually got so bad that I would stop breathing for up to a minute at a time. Because atypical seizures aren’t super well understood they had to take me off of Depakote. This was years ago though.

Regarding the sex slave thing I can kind of relate. I was under the impression this guy had an insatiable sexual appetite for me. And I needed to come and live with him n he could have me all the time. :s. According to the voice

My breathing was ok from what i remember the worst thing was the eyes rolling into the back of my head shuck me up abit . Olanzapine have calmed me down allot I’m hoping they can give me a depot eventually the voices remain but I’m feeling loads better than I did on the other meds need to star some sort of exercise program to combat the weight gain but apart from that happy so far it’s early days I’m 7 months into my diagnosis I was hospitalised in August last I feel like I’m making progress slowly but surely

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I’m so happy to hear that you’re making progress. It’s hard, but it’s great that you’re making an effort. Just make sure to describe all your side effects to your pdoc so that they can help. I’ve been afraid to mention side effects in the past because I didn’t want them to take me off meds that were helping, but I ended up making things worse by doing that. Just try to be as honest as possible.

The only med that made worse off was Loxapine. I was sedated the entire day and felt the need to just lay in bed. I was only on 15mg.

Ye I’m always honest with them try my best to work with them.one step at a time I’m optimistic about things at the minute and looking forward to the future .

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Nothing has made me necessarily worse that I’m 100% sure it was the cause. I thought my Geodon (2nd round of taking it) had severely increased my anxiety, but when I got home, the severe anxiety disappeared and was replaced with severe depression, so I don’t really know.

Although both Abilify and Geodon gave me annoying side effects that made things “worse” arguably. Tremors for Abilify and then weird muscle vibration that would make me unable to sleep occasionally for the Geodon