and how long have you noticed the meds working?
It took me a few weeks in the hospital on meds to start feeling the effects. Apparently I responded slowly to them. I’m sure everyone responds differently. It was probably 2-3 weeks for me.
They made me feel really tired and hungry for a while. My eating habits have improved drastically in two years and I’m not nearly as sleepy as I was. I still take 2-3 naps per day. I just start feeling tired. I have no motivation. Just lately my musical creativity came back so I’ve been writing more songs and messing around on guitar
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I noticed them working right away. To answer the other question. I immediately dropped thoughts of alien invasion. It took a few months to stop having paranoia/panic attacks. Different things would trigger me but as time goes on I have less attacks. Still get them every once in a while out of the blue. But much less frequent.
I was smoking a lot of pot when I got out of the hospital. That didn’t help. I had a medical card for anxiety and continued to use it. Once I stopped smoking my symptoms got way better
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I noticed the voices come to a whisper at about 3 months by the 5 month they were nearly gone.
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I would take the meds for at least 90 days before jumping to any conclusions about its efficacy or long term side effects.
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In my case the response is always immediate.
However, 6 months down the line what seems to work stops working. I had a full blown psychotic mania and one dose of Abilify wiped it out. Ever since, either the medications work instantly or they don’t. I never get added benefit with time.
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Took me a few months to feel full effects.
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My meds have always worked very fast
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İn my case it took 7 days to feel difference on prozac.i think usually med fully works on after 15 days
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