Lower-Dose Schizophrenia Medication Increases Risk of Relapse or Discontinuation

https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/schizophrenia-and-psychoses/reducing-antipsychotic-dose-for-schizophrenia-raises-risk-for-relapse-or-discontinuance/

During maintenance treatment for multi-episode schizophrenia, reducing antipsychotic medication dose may increase risk of relapse and all-cause discontinuation, according to a review published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

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I cannot see this in my experience but it might explain why they put me on the highest AP dose and don’t change it

Wondered for a while actually why they don’t reduce my meds

Guess this must be why

Wish people would just tell you these things up front and be straight with you - rather than just writing loads of notes on a computer

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Well, discontinuation may be caused because a person might come to believe if they are able to function on low doses they are not really ill, or it might seem plausible to be able to quit…

And I guess lowering medication causes more relapse is kind of self explaining. There’s always a risk of relapse when tapering down vs staying on higher doses.

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