what do you think? I don’t feel crazy at all. why do i take meds?
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what if I am not crazy anymore? why do I take the damned meds?
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or, OR, what if the meds are causing you to not feel crazy because they’re actually working?
In that case, it would be kind of dumb to quit them.
I have never heard of someone being suddenly cured of schizophrenia. It can be managed and held down, but I don’t think it will completely disappear on its own. Trust your meds. They’re working, so why risk quitting them?
It’ll be so much harder to get back on them again.
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but I feel normal again
maybe meds are working, as you said.
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@Om_Sadasiva - please take a moment to read your posts from previous days. You mentioned paranoia, voices, anxiety, negative symptoms etc. If today you are having a good day, I am happy for you, but it doesn’t mean you are cured.
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Tough call. It’s like people telling you to leave the cast on your once broken leg even though your leg is fully healed.
“Leave the cast on”, they say, “It fixes your leg doesn’t it !”.
Well, it’s not exactly the same thing. With a broken leg, you can prove it’s not broken.
With schizophrenia, there’s no known cure, so it’s more likely it’s still “broken”.
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So, when I was 18 and psychotic my doctors put me on a high dose of AP and an AD. I took them everyday for about 7 years even though I had zero symptoms for the last 6. So then my new doctors and I decided I was probably fine now and I could go off of them. So I did and felt great for about a month.
Then I spent the next few year’s in and out of psych wards for months at a time, lost my job and some friends, until I finally found a med that worked since the abilify I was on previously didn’t work when I tried to go back on it.
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you are probably right.
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really? so we should take meds for ever?
Well, I should. Especially now that I have the sz diagnosis. If you have an sz diagnosis I suggest you take meds forever, too.
but when I feel ok i question even the diagnosis and docs. I am confused
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You have a disease that makes you question these things. That’s why you need the meds.
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Keep a calendar or something and mark in it every day you feel any symptom. Paranoia, delusional thinking, voices, etc. Then, when you’ve gone a year without any marks, bring it up with your doctor.
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that’s a good idea!
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The last time I went off my meds, on doctors orders, due to an accidental overdose, I went stark crazy. I know what happens when I go off of my meds. I’m on them for the rest of my life. Or, until my pdoc takes me off of them.
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I’ve taken meds and quit several times. Taking meds changes you but makes you stable. Off meds, I can tell I felt like a different person. On meds I was a zombie. If I read your past post right, you were given a high dose of Risperdal off the bat, right? I don’t know but I would get a second opinion. But you and I both need meds.
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No, my pdoc titrated me up to a relatively high dose of Risperdal Consta.
That’s not a wellsounded/thoroughly thought out idea, let alone a plan for such execution of doing it/if for some extend there is even a reason for doing it.
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I don’t think tnat’s an accurate comparison. For one thing as most people mention, we will never “heal” so that we are like we were before we got sick. Recovery is possible but I think after a period of psychosis the damage is done and you can’t “undo” the affects of psychosis and schizophrenia. Medication staves off some of the symptoms but doesn’t heal. Like I’ve read many places, the biggest cause of relapse is going off of meds.
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