I try not to.
Due to zyprexas anti gagging properties I can drink like a fish and don’t even realise.
It’s not healthy…
Do you drink on your meds or not drink due to taking the meds.
Go well 
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I do drink and I am on meds, but I don’t drink often. I have something like one or two drinks a month
I used to semi-regularly drink ridiculous amounts when I was on sertraline though
Yea I have the problem of binge drinking.
I Don’t go out often but when I do I can’t stop.
Sux
Do you want to stop the binge drinking?
Yea but it’s so hard.
I always feel like I must party when I have a drink
Yeah i drink on my Paliperdone Injection. But im seeking help thru AA and my support worker to quit. Turned into a bit of an alcoholic lately. But “touch wood” with the right support i will be quitting for good after xmas is finished. They keep saying that it affects my medication but i disagree. Im quitting cos the amount of money its costing me…
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Yea that’s what I’ve always wondered is how it affects the meds. Was what I wanted to say in the first post
Yeah I was the same when I was on sertraline. It resolved itself when I stopped the sertraline so I don’t really have any good advice to give unfortunately
I quit drinking in 2009. Don’t touch the stuff
Yeah i dont believe im any different, mental health wise, drinking or not. I never have any physical withdrawl symptoms like the shakes or whatever. For me alcohol is more of a crappy coping mechanism to pass the time of day and i drink down the pub to meet people, otherwise im on my own. I just want to quit cos of the money - and partly to get them off my back cos my Support workers been moaning for months about my drinking!!
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I’m trying to stop being so dependant on it. It’s not that I’m an alcoholic but I definitely experience FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). I’ve noticed alcohol depresses me and if I drink too close together my voices will flare up a few days later.
Ideally I’d just like to develop my ability to say “no thank you”
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I’m an alcoholic so I can’t touch the stuff at all. Coming up for 4 years sober in April.
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I enjoy a drink now and then. I take risperidone and abilify. I’m not an alcoholic though.
Do does the alcohol interact with your meds?
It’s difficult to say. I’d say drinking, smoking and poor diet were the reason I went into my second psychosis. It deffinitely effects my mood when I drink and I am more likely to need a longer sleep in the next day because my medication makes me drowsy.
But I drank for 5 years prior to my recent psychosis and was fine. Medication lowered my tolerance for alcohol but I built up a resistance to it the longer I was on the medication.
I haven’t drank in years.
Drinking alcohol while taking meds is not recommended.
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I like to drink but only beer without alcohol 
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I drink but in small quantities.
Now that is winter, I make myself hot chocolate and add some rum in it. Max I would have two mugs of this in a day. So not a lot.
If anybody has a drinking problem, medication helps a lot. So seek some help. Once I switched from Latuda to Abilify, I stopped the binge drinking.
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Combining medication and alcohol is very dangerous. It damages your heart, liver, and, most importantly, your brain.
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