Sometimes I can tell that it’s only psychosis, other times I get drawn into it and 50% believe it’s real. I have symptoms cause I’m switching to abilify. The symptoms aren’t extreme. I had read that abilify can take weeks to work, so I’m gonna give it a couple of months and see if it starts working.
If the abilify doesn’t work on me, I will go weeks with symptoms for nothing though. I guess I just need to put up with it.
Why are you switching from invega?
From zyprexa. I don’t like it that much, I want to see if I can find something better.
I switched from zyprexa to something called Lybalvi which is basically zyprexa combined with samidorphan. I haven’t had any delusions and very few hallucinations so far.
I read smth about lybalvi, it’s a new med as I remember?
You are right mag patience is the corner stone when you come on or off meds.
Sorry to hear youre going through this. Medicine switch can really affect you, do you have anything to distract yourself when having these symptom’s? I know its hard but its a tedious and long process to get the right med cocktail, wishing you peace my friend!
Yeah I can distract myself with things like video games. Yesterday the voices became a bit too much and I increased the zyprexa… I don’t know what I should do going forward. Maybe be on the abilify for a while and try decreaing the zyprexa again.
Dear maggi abilify is not a silver bullet in every case. It didn’t work for me( worsened my positives ). A friend of mine is on 15 mgs of zyprexa with 30 mg Abilify. He claims that the 30 mgs of Abilify only works on his depression. So I will not recommend any body to go from a stronger antipsychotic to a weaker one
So I took extra zyprexa, 10mg instead of 5, because the voices and paranoia became too much… I’m gonna have to talk with my psychiatrist tomorrow to find out what’s the plan forward. Maybe I need to give the abilify more time, and maybe an even slower tapering is worth trying. Sucks if abilify doesn’t work though, but I guess I just have to accept it if that turns out to be the case.
I wonder if abilify actually makes my positive worse too. I don’t know if it’s that or the zyprexa that has been lowered.
Maggi that was very brave and smart that.you chose to keep your self save. Make a plan with your doctor about the transition from Zyprexa to Abilify.
Be patience with the switch and do it very slowly.
And be forgiven to your self
I took 20mg of Olanzapine for over six months. I felt sane in my mind but I had akathisia.
I hope your talk with your psychiatrist tomorrow helps with what meds and doses you should take.
My doctor agreed that I should go back up on the zyprexa. I’m gonna stay on the abilify for a while I think and maybe try a slow taper on the zyprexa in a month or something.
That’s the last chance I give abilify, if that doesn’t work I’m back on zyprexa.
Maggy sometimes we have a hard time with accepting the side effects burden of our meds but I still believe that not feeling psychotic is the most importing effects of our antipsychotics.
You mean abilify does not work? Maybe you need a higher dose also, maybe it’s not for you
IAmNotCrazyYet I really appreciate your contributions to this forum.
Thank columbus, but the name is actually am I crazy yet? Since I’m tapering I thought it would be funny to choose an ironic name
You are the least crazy person I’ve ever met. But I do understand that you are battling psychoses of course.
Hahaha thank you but we haven’t met! The user name is also posed as rhetorical question since I’m still sane yet dispite having a diganosis. I think the thing is that even if you are ‘well’ you can’t not be crazy to take a nootropic stack as large as mine.
I wanted to give my stack a name. Like the Mr Happy stack is and I thought that it was funny and catchy. Going to all those lengths to learn about your disease to buy all the supplements ect, you really do have to ask yourself am I crazy for doing this. The answer is unequivocally yes and the reason for being crazy is clear, I have a diagnosis. Also you can’t really know if you’ve lost your sanity before you loose insight and relapse so you have to ask yourself when you’re quitting medication. Am I crazy yet?
I sound a lot more normal on the internet via text but trust me in really life I’m a pretty weird dude just people can’t put their finger on what it is to realise how bonkers I really am.