I feel sedated

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Is it good or should I switch meds?

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Antipsychotics make most people tired. No. Not a reason to switch meds.

I found that I went from sleeping 10 hours a day to 8 or less simply from adding decent exercise. Your young. Good time to start and if you’ve spare time it’s a good idea simply for physical health.

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Sedation is manageable. You can learn to push past it and be productive.

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If you positives have reduced then stick with it until they are more or less gone, then find something less sedating.

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I don’t have positives anymore

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Same thing happened to me on 15 mg olanzapine. I felt better every month for six months. Eventually I changed meds to something less sedating. The olanzapine did the heavy lifting though.

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Sounds like a winner. Most have only made positives manageable.
While at it being heavily sedating too.
You get used to the sedation.

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Something weird happened to me when I took Seroquel. I was so incredibly sensitive to it, it kept me in bed all day. I wasn’t even sleeping all that time, I was high. Antipsychotic medications have only given me that high but with two types: the Seroquel, and the zyprexa at a high dose. With the zyprexa I would feel it right as I drifted off to sleep. You can’t do that for your entire life, it doesn’t work, you get sicker.

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That’s not necessarily true. There are a number of antipsychotics that don’t produce sedation, and if the sedation is intolerable/unacceptable, you should consider a switch, although you may have to weigh advantages against disadvantages, as there are sometimes other, good things about a medication.

Yes, if you have sufficient determination / will power.

-Albert.

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If its bad than yes. I got fed up with being on seroquel. I felt like it was impairing my thinking and making communication more difficult.

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If its blocking your symptoms id say stick with it. I felt sedated for a long time but got used to it. Im pretty lazy still but i dont sleep 18 hours a day anymore.

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