I feel I’m too damn stable right now/overmedicated. I want to go from 20 mg to 15 mg. I’m gonna ask my doctor next time I see him
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Should you mess with success ?
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I take 60mg abilify along with two other meds and have no side effects
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If it ain’t broke, why fix it?
If it works well for you, why mess with that?
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Always ask for a medical opinion …you doing it right
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I don’t really have side effects from 20 mg Abilify either. I just think I could come down on it. Idk I think eventually I’d like to be on less medicine and now I’m stable enough to try it. I’d definitely need to see my pdoc because I don’t have 15 mg tablets
You should try to reduce your dose if you can.
Lowest possible maintenance dose. That’s always the right aim.
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I feel the same way. I’m on 4.5 mg of Vraylar. It works well, but I have no drive/initiation to work. It’s like a wall or something blocking me from doing anything with my life. I’m lost.
I’ve been drinking 4 monsters a day just to feel normal. I wonder if I’m too stable too, which is a nice feeling.
I wonder if I should switch to clozaril or add on topamax or just lower vraylar to 3 mg. I started on 3 mg. I liked that dosage a lot. I went up because of intrusive thoughts. But those are mostly gone. My depression is gone too.
I just have abolition. I cannot structure my thoughts into productive behavior. My body movements are like 10% of a normal person. I mope around a lot–im very inefficient. It takes many hours for me to do something productive. Hence, I end up just doing 1-2 things a day.
The contents of my thoughts are lacking.
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i think I can go down because of my other meds conjunction with abilify. And I’ve been away from substances more. Why would you go on clozaril? If vraylars working.
I asked my pdoc if I could lower my risperidone a bit more and she said no it wouldn’t be a good idea.
I was disappointed but understood.
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I know. I wasnt on clozaril much because I got nms while on it. I can’t blame clozaril because I was on 6 mg of risperdal and an unknown amount of seroquel too, among other meds. I think clozaril has a good reputation for those who are tr. I doubt it will make me work but it also works on glutamate system, I guess. Could save me money and the hassle of sarcosine + vraylar.
Some docs just overmedicated people. I’m pretty sure I’ve died from nms before. People think it’s a delusion but not. I just got really lucky. Now I’m hesitant to go to the hospital because idiot doctors try to prescribe high doses and multiple aps on me at a time, even my favorite doctor does that. I’m definitely not a paranoid sz. Just a man ahead of his time and misunderstood.
People, especially, health care people can’t fathom my ideas of time travel and time loops and matrix theory and extraterrestrials visiting earth. Ok, I digress. My bad.
( Assumes role of a schizophrenic) 
You should do it… If you feel you can… You will 
That was almost exactly my experience with vraylar, except I was on 6 mg and still having symptoms with typical severity/frequency as though I were off meds.
Uh, should we leave the room?