Injection or oral

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What do you take? What do you prefer?

I get the injection monthly. It seems like the best stabilizing option and is also convenient. I’ll never understand you folk who take the oral medication.

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I was forced to get an injection of a first generation antipsychotic called Clopixol for over 2 years. I hated it and I never want to get an injection again. My mother is on an injection and it works for her.

There are various downsides to getting an injection. I can’t be bothered listing them. I feel like people are just warehoused on injections and the nurses and doctors think “oh that person is on an injection, we can just put them away in a little box and not worry about them anymore”.

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Am on the sister med to clopixol, depixol. It destroys my concentration.

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Do you guys think that being on an injection means you have a pretty serious case? The way I understand it is that if you’re not med compliant they put you on an injection. One of my old PDOC told me that I should feel lucky to be on the injection. I don’t know if she was just full of bs or what.

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Are U going off depixol…?? Right jimbob…!!!

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i think thats the main reason people get put on the injection as opposed to pills, but i did have a therapist who mentioned injections and said it was “popular” among young people who needed them because its more convenient. idk if thats true or not, though

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I hope so. I have to speak to my doc in a weeks time. I don’t mind replacing it with another depot if that’s what he wants todo. Am just not keen on depixol anymore.

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One anti psychotic will work jimbob … u are on seroquel right…???

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That’s right friend. 600mg seroquel

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If you are not on a Community Treatment Order and you can be compliant with oral medication, the choice of medication should be ultimately up to you. They shouldn’t be able to force you to do things. Ideally we should be like any other patient who goes to a doctor and is prescribed tablet medication to take.

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I heard injection can cause muscle problems. Idk if it’s all drugs or just some.

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They originally put me on the injection because I was on an order and thought my meds were placebos so I didn’t take them.

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my doc recommened the injection just because you only have to get it once a month or even once every three months, for convenience. I don’t think it’s necessarily for “bad cases” or anything. Although for non-compliant patients who really do need medicine it might be the best option to get them stable.

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How lazy can people be! You put a tablet in your mouth each day and swallow it! It isn’t difficult! For God’s sake.

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I take cogentin and 6mg of invega every night. You’re right it wouldn’t be that hard to just add one more pill to my regime. I just think that everything is going good and I’m not getting negative symptoms so I shouldn’t switch.

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Fair enough. 6mg of Invega would be enough for most people to take alone anyway, without anything more.

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I take both, but I prefer the injection.

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I switched to the injection because I needed to be in a higher dose than I could handle with oral pills because the injection has fewer side effects.

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Did the fewere side effects come from your pdoc or is that just what you’ve experienced?

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Because I’m scared of the side effects. If the effects last for a month, so do the side effects.

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