The voices pegged me on that one. I’m a brat through and through. I was supposed to spend one week on 20 mg geodon in the morning and 40 mg at night, then one week on 20 mg and 20 mg, and then go off. I immediately started taking 20 and 20 and then stopped completely after 4 days of this because I was just so sick of the sedation and wanted to be off asap. So today has been my first day without any geodon and it’s been hard…extreme anxiety and gagging all day. Thankfully I have my handy friend klonopin to help out.
I also raised my dose of depakote 3 days before I was supposed to…oh well. I haven’t had any side effects from it at all so far.
I feel bad for my new psychiatrist. He doesn’t know what he’s in for I become noncompliant at the drop of a hat and have about a 50% chance (honestly probably lower) of actually doing what I’m told when it comes to medication. I’m a brat. (I just really can’t tolerate side effects ok?! )
my psychiatrist pretty much just prescribes the meds and i have to figure out everything else, what meds are u going to be on now that you’re off geodon
In the struggle for function it’s usually a good idea to follow your psydocs instruction. If your shrink is any good then your doing yourself a real favour.
If your struggling for function…then playing around with meds and dosages isn’t a good idea. I wouldn’t recommend that to anyone but those who’ve lived with schizophrenia for a long time and been through a lot of meds.
It’s your call. Might pay to try doing it by the book for a while!
Depakote. I may try to figure out if going back on Risperidone will be possible at some point but I need a break from antipsychotics again. I’m lucky in that I can choose to do that.
Last night was very hard. It was like I lost control of my thoughts and kept getting these random sounds and images flashing through my head. The sounds were somewhere between being actual sounds and not, if that makes sense. Like very loud thoughts. And none of my thoughts made sense either, I was trying to think logically and just nonsense stuff would happen, it was really like I lost control. I was hallucinating very vividly, everything was very bright and shifting and swirling. I had bad anxiety. I woke up in the middle of the night with waves of nausea and was dry heaving at the toilet. They came and went. Felt like I was spinning.
Today I had anxiety this morning but took a klonopin. Now that it’s later in the day I feel more like I have a mild virus and have been exhausted and slightly feverish.
Good luck, mine was pretty much a total nightmare experience but I am also very sensitive to side effects so that’s my story with like every medication I’ve ever tried. You’ll probably be different!
I become noncompliant at the drop of a hat and have about a 50% chance (honestly probably lower) of actually doing what I’m told when it comes to medication. I’m a brat. (I just really can’t tolerate side effects ok?! 
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