Everything online says somewhere between 4-8 weeks to know if the med will work for you or not, and could take a few months to receive the full effect.
But, My pdoc says the right med on the right person should help within a few days or even on the same day… Can anyone confirm this as true?
A couple days seems a little short. 
I can confirm that you will see relief within a few days, yes. I have one medicine that will give me a sedating effect that helps me within a few minutes. But as far as helping with the non-reality feeling, a few days and I start feeling solid again.
When I switched to Zyprexa, I noticed significant benefit just in the first ten days of only 5 mg. For me, it didn’t take long to start feeling a LOT better.
A few days seems short to me. Haldol works quickly though (apparently).
One time it took me weeks, another time days, yes it seems to vary with antipsychotics
Wat I noticed…
The time that I medically intervened quickly was the time that the med helped quickly
As oppose to the time that it took me ages to medically intervene, it took weeks for my positive symptoms to be affected or even months yes I think months
When I say effect, I mean the voices went completely for both durations, except hypnogoggic ones come and go but those are apparently normal in neurotypical too
Mine only took a couple days.
Two weeks and four days when I first started risperidone to lower the tone of the voice. Two weeks and five days after an increase to 6mg, which silenced the voice
It took me about a month to come out of my last episode. I have read it can normally take 4 to 6 weeks to see the full effect. I normally see some difference though very quickly, within the first week or so.
Haldol often works within hours or so. I would go from extremely psychotic to normal in a very short time. Nurses in the ward told me they never saw someone respond so fast to meds.
If i have bad symptoms now, usually at night, i take haldol, go back to bed and wake up a lot better.
Within a day or days i seem to have the full effect and get very sad, sleepy and depressed.
When I was in the hospital the meds would work in a few days.
I can confirm that this is true. Meds have acted on me right away before. Within hours or minutes even.
I felt great on rexulti within a week.
I was still having paranoia, but after only a couple days on a higher dose it stopped.
The only AP that took a while to work for me was latuda.
I just got put on zyprexa with my usual seroquel and I noticed the next day after first dose I wasnt as obsorbed in delusions
Uhhh a few days is a bit crazy unless you’re getting a shot. That’s not long enough for pills to even get to a steady state in your bloodstream. I would say earliest is like 3 weeks. If a med helped me at all I started to see some positive effects at least at that point. It can take longer to fully work but you should at least see some benefit by around 3 weeks. Probably takes like 2 months to really fully kick in and keep you stable if it works. That’s been my experience and I’ve been on a lotta meds.
I usually feel a little relief within a few days after upping the dose/ getting an intervention of a new one. When I was taken off the two I was on last fall and put on an injection, it wasn’t easy at all adjusting, I was freezing up in mid sentence and getting caught up in my head, running into things (tv stand, Christmas tree) when I was telling a story. When I talked, I couldn’t control being unstable, and was acting off the wall getting stuck in mid sentence because my brain images were too powerful. I didn’t get benefit until Depakote was added on 2 months later
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